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I'm from country where you can buy apps from Google Play Market, but you can not sell, e.g. if I create an app for android, I can only publish it to download for free. Can anybody suggest any alternative services or methods, how I can sell my apps?
Please think/suggest how would you do it?
Something like user downloads the app, pays through PayPal, app checks if payment was made and then app start...
Thanks in advance!
It is against Google Play's ToS to use third party billing vendors like PayPal etc. You run the risk of having your account suspended if you do.
I started selling apps from India before it was officially supported. To do this, I registered an LLC in USA. I paid LegalZoom ~$200 to take care of the registration etc. So far, its worked out pretty well for me, and I haven't felt the need to change this method even though India is now supported as a direct merchant.
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I have published free to download apps to google play store before. Now I'm going to publish a app, which users need pay to download and use it.
Is there any additional steps to complete in my application to launch my app as a priced app?
I have little bit confused regarding this because when I'm searching about this, I found about Google Play In-app Billing. for In-app Billing programmer should import library and do some coding part. so I have confused about launching my app as a priced app.
What are the additional steps I should complete before launching the app as a priced app?
What are the best practices to follow when launching the app as a priced app?
When the users dont have to be able to buy stuff in app you can ignore this.
This is related just to those applications which need to manage payments inside the app. If you want just sell your app through Google Play ignore that part.
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I don't recall this information being immediately accessible.
Last month I read
In Google's Android application market, no pre-approval is required, though registration is
needed for distribution. Developers need to register as developers (cost $25/year) with a
Google account and sell their products through a published site. NonDfree applications can be
sold after configuring the bank information.
source: bada_development_guide_for_android_developer_modified_final.pdf pp5, date 10/7/2011
while bada was free. I suspect I was reading old information, bada cost £1 for seller registration last time I checked. But I don't think Android ever cost £25/year and this was just Samsung pushing their own alternative OS.
App publisher registration on Google Play (formerly Android Market) has always been a $25, one time fee- Whatever literature you were reading was incorrect.
From the Developer Registration support page:
You must register to be able to distribute your products through Google Play. There is a one time $25 registration fee. We charge this fee to encourage higher quality products on Google Play (e.g. less spammy products).
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I'm developing an Android app and publishing it in Google Market. The problem is that the difference between v1.x and v2.x is huge, and like most products I wouldn't like to automatically provide Major upgrade for free for user of v1.
Is there any way to "separate" the payment for v1 and v2, and provide "upgrade license" for users of v1?
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Upgrades nope; kind of irritating that the market has no option for coupon codes or developer discounts etc. but that's the way it currently is.
Kind of a hack, but you could leave the name the same and add Pro or Plus and change your package name so for instance
com.myapplication.v1
becomes
com.myapplication.v2
Then to promote it you can use admobs inhouse promotion facility (assuming you have put admob v1) it's not perfect but it would work, then just turn on the add when you are ready with a new version.
An alternative is to structure the newer application so that the new features are in app payments, that would probably be the most user friendly approach, let them use them for N days then shut them down and offer the users the ability to pay for the newer features
I have also not looked at their licensing service much, it might be possible to do something with that I suppose but I suspect not.
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Certainly the Google's LVL is the standard for license verification when selling through the official Market, but with the influx of tablets that don't have access to the Market, I'm beginning to look at making my app available through other distribution channels.
How should one attempt license verification when selling through distribution channels other than the Market?
In that case you need to implement your own DRM mechanism. Trust me its no use using anything other than Android Market for distribution. Not many have it and for paid apps, Marketplace takes a lot of headache off you. I dont think there is any mature Android Distribution Channel other than the Marketplace
After some more research, what I've found is that there really is no present alternative. However, I did receive an e-mail response from AppsLib indicating that they are a few weeks away from releasing their own implementation of LVL for the AppsLib Marketplace. They claim that "when it is released you will only need to add a few lines of code to your apps for it to be compatible with both Google and Appslib."
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I wish to sell paid applications via Android Market, however my country (Slovakia) is not in the list of entitled countries(http://market.android.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=150324).
Could I temporarily overcome this limitation by getting a bank account and a paycard from a bank within the country(Austria in my case) entitled for Android Market merchandise?
Do you know, whether the Android Market merchants are allowed to use the store based on the location of their bank, their residence encoded in the card, or the internet connection location?
Solving this would help many others wishing to distribute paid apps but their country has not yet been allowed for Android Market merchandise.
I think technically you could just open a bank account in an entitled country, lie about your address and use that to take payments, but there might be legal issues around this.
What could be a solution is to open a company too and register that legal entity as a developer, but unless you anticipate massive sales this might be a bit too much effort, even with all the administration easing you get if you do it in an other EU country.
There is really no direct way to sell apps on Android Market if your country is not listed there. However, you can check out www.androidconnector.com, a US based company that will help you with just that.