I have an app that I want to market on google Play. Initially I want to charge a fixed price for the app.
I'm used to marketing apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace where a user simply has to pay to get the app - no "licensing" is necessary because the user can't get the app without paying for it.
I read the material about Google Play licensing and it seems to imply that unless I use the LVL, users can get ahold of my app for free. Is that right? On the other hand, if Google Play won't let them have the app without paying, why do I need to use licensing?
As the docs say, this is really to
verify that the current user did in fact pay for the application on Google Play
This is to combat piracy. Google Play won't give them the app without paying, but they might obtain the app from another source without paying and install it manually. This provides a runtime check.
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I've created an application which only purpose is to download the real full-featured application from a server of mine, ask the user to accept the permissions and install it.
I know that there are some regulations for the Apple App store about this kind of "downloader" applications, so i was wondering if there is any sort of policy or term of use that might be violated if i decide to upload this app to the Google Play store.
Thanks
Check out: https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html
I believe what you are doing is ok, but would most likely be frowned upon by Google, as they want people to use the Play Store.
Quote from the article:
Malicious scripts and password phishing scams are also prohibited on
Google Play, as are apps that cause users to unknowingly download or
install apps from sources outside of Google Play.
As long as your are informing the user of the download, and not trying to make money, you're good.
I've been going through a design for an app I wish to be making soon. My app will rely on user generated content. Is it possible to have users add an item to this in-app marketplace and recieve payments when other users buy from them directly using Google Wallet or PayPal? Is there a recommended way of implementing this type of feature?
Thanks in advance!
I am not aware of any recommended way to do this, however, doing this your app will likely not be allowed to be uploaded to the Google Play Store.
This would be against Google's Terms of Service as a developers apps is not allowed to make money through other means and other purchases that are made within the app have to go via the Google Play.
As we all know that there are may options available to save the android app apk file.
so if the app is a paid app, it might become a risk for developer.
Could anyone here would be able to help me to know the best practice to be followed in order to prevent your android app from being copied by the app saver applications.
Thats where the Google Play Licencing service plays the role. Here is what is says " With Google Play Licensing, your application can query Google Play at run time to obtain the licensing status for the current user, then allow or disallow further use as appropriate." Check out this documentation for usage instruction Here
is there any way to give access to the statistics of a specific app on my google play developer account to a 3rd person?
I have various apps, one of them is developed for a customer and he asks access to the downloads and rest statistics.
At present, Google Play does not provide mechanism to enable access to a specific app alone, although you could give access to your whole Developer Console. The only thing you can restrict is the financial information. I hope this is not what you want.
In your case, you could provide screenshots if that is acceptable.
I ended up to use a google api to retrieve the statistics and create my web front end to show them to my customer.
You can find at http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ a php version of the backend.
kudos to this post too: Is there an API to get statictics on Google Play developer console?
As far as I concerned, there is now way to give access to statistics only to 3-rd person, besides giving him your account information. For my personal usage, I developed a widget for tracking some statistics of my application and eventually I released it on the market. So I think it will be helpful to you as well Applications Tracker Widget is the app which will help you
I was wondering is there a way to get the apps user bought from Google Play Store or pretty much all the applications. Ofcourse this would need user permission but is there any api which can be used to fetch this information ?
No, there's no official API for getting all user activity on the Google Play store, outside of your own application. However, you can use technologies like LVL and/or in-app-billing APIs to determine whether a user has purchased your own app, from within your own app.
You can get all installed applications. Look the answer of Nelson Ramirez: How to get a list of installed android applications and pick one to run