Android :: Copy Protection Invisible App

Jul 5, 2010

I have an app with Copy Protection on. Since a number of users have reported being unable to find the app on Market since upgrading to 2.1, I have researched the issue and copy protection seems to be the culprit. Turning off copy protection is the answer, but it seems that it leads to file access problems and can require a reinstall, which is not a very good user experience.

However, this ought to have been fixed in 1.6 which means I should be able to turn off copy protection and everything is ok. But some people have still encountered this issue and their users had to reinstall. So, my question is this, if I turn off copy protection, will all users have to reinstall the app? Will only 1.5 users have to reinstall (30%)?

Android :: Copy protection invisible app


Android :: Turn Off Copy Protection?

Aug 31, 2010

I'm having a lot of issues where people can't even find my app in the Android Market. It appears that it's all because of copy protection, which I WISH I had never even seen, much less activated in my app. So, can Google PLEASE, response and let me know what will happen if I disable it now? What will happen to my existing customers? I've not seen a single definitive answer on this topic.

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Android :: Remove Copy Protection?

Jan 14, 2010

I have "Copy Protection" turned on for my app, but now i want to remove it Will there be any problems if i remove it now?

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Android :: Copy Protection Bug Status

Nov 12, 2009

I'd love to revert to no copy protection on our games for a number of pressing reasons, but these bugs bit us pretty bad last time I tried.

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Android :: Copy Protection Data Lost?

Mar 20, 2010

Has anyone turned off copy protection on their app recently? We're finding that Motorola Backflip users can't see our paid apps, so we'd like to turn off copy protection as it doesn't seem to prevent pirating. But, we're worried that existing users will lose their saved preferences. According to bug 2047, the issue was fixed in November 2009, but according to some discussions, it actually still exists. It'd be great to hear positive or negative examples from anyone who's tried this recently. We're also thinking of putting out a dummy app to test things out and will report back if we do.

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Android :: App Copy Protection And Data Files

Feb 20, 2010

In my app, I access my sqlite database at the following hard-coded location in my code: /data/data/ com.mydomain.appname/databases/database.db

If I turn ON copy protection in the Market Place, will my app still have access to this location?

Or will I have to change it to something like: /data-private/data/ com.mydomain.appname/databases/database.db

(or something like this)

Since I have a Dev phone only, I have no way of testing to see if my app still functions normally after turning on copy protection.

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Android :: Applications Copy Protection Work?

Jan 27, 2009

I didn't find any information about how works app copy protection. Where can I read something about it?

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Android :: Copy Protection & License Key Management

Apr 26, 2009

1. When the "copy protection" checkbox was first introduced on Android Market, I heard about a lot of issues with people not being able to download etc. Have those issues been resolved now? If I turn on copy- protection on an app with over 10K active users, do I risk a major rebellion?

2. I'd like to sell my app on other stores like slideme, andappstore and handango. Since some of these just redirect the user to your own site to download the app, there needs to be a license key that authenticates the user and unlocks his app. I saw that andappstore has a framework for that (not sure if that will only work with them or is a generic solution). I'm looking for a free, generic licensing solution. Is there one that you know of or use? My concern is to not throw in a wrench in the process of user download and use of the app, where I start getting a ton of emails from people whose keys arent working or asking for new keys etc, where license support turns into a full-time activity.

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Android :: Market Copy Protection Options

Feb 19, 2009

Off (Application can be copied from the device) On (Helps prevent copying of this application from the device. Increases the amount of memory required by users to install the application) AFAIK apps are *always* installed in device's internal memory. Right? Hence, apps can't be copied (with stock G1 w/o any mods).

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Android :: Removing Copy Protection From Market App?

Jul 21, 2010

If I publish a new version of my application and remove copy protection will any of my users be impacted? For example if users using 1.6 and greater will not be impacted but users still running 1.5 would have to reinstall and resetup the application I could live with that.

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Android :: Copy Protection ON And Phones Compatibility

Nov 19, 2010

why if I set the Copy Protection ON from my developer console, my apps isn't available on many phones like Sony Ericsson X8 Q1.6 ?

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Android :: Turn Off Copy Protection - App Move To Sd Card

Jul 13, 2010

I have an paid app currently selling in the market with its copy protection turned on. I'm thinking about turning this off in order to reduce the size of my app and allow the "move to sd card" function to work. I've read that, in the past, people were having issues when the dev switched the copy protection setting from off to on. Is this still an issue? If users are still having problems then I'll leave things as they are. I understand that copy protection isn't really helping and I should just leave it off, but since I've had it on through several updates now, I'd hate to cause my users grief by changing now.

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Android :: Provide Copy Protection For Free Apps?

Nov 11, 2010

i am providing copy protection for Android paid applications by using Android Market Licensing mechanism. But it supports only for the paid applications. How can i provide copy-protection to Free application. Is there any alternatives?

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Android :: Updating App On Market And Switching To Copy Protection

Nov 8, 2009

I have uploaded an update for my app on Android Market. And at the same time I have enabled the copy protection of the app. When I downloaded my the update, there was an exception and the app crashed. I had to reinstall it. After reinstall it worked fine...

Exception was: W/zipro ( 1103): Unable to open zip '/data/app-private/...': Permission denied D/asset ( 1103): failed to open Zip archive '/data/app-private/...' W/ResourceType( 1103): No package identifier when getting value for resource number 0x7f090000

Is this a know bug when switching to copy protection? Or is there another reason this error occured?

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Android :: Process Of App's Activation - Copy Protection Of Market?

May 25, 2010

For example, firstly download the app "ABC", "Open" button and "Uninstall" button will be displayed at the bottom of the screen when the installing is completed. Secondly, activate "ABC" by tapping this "Open", and tap HOME key when the app is running. After that, restart the same app from the Launcher on the Home screen, and finish the restarted one from BACK key. Then, despite having closed the restarted one, the same app is displayed. (I forecast the cause, it is maybe the multiple activation of the app.)

Q1. Is it the problem as the specific of Android Market that multiple activation occurs when the app is activated with above process? If it's no problem, is the cause the app "ABC" which I downloaded? Q2. Is there any way to avoid the multiple activation in designing of apps?

About the copy protection of Android Market.............

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HTC Desire :: 3rd Party Batteries - Copy Protection And OS X Syncing

Apr 19, 2010

I emailed HTC last week with these questions, thought I would post up the replies if anyone else wants to know...

1) Is this safe to use 3rd party extended batteries and will it make a difference to the capacity (it's 1600mAh)? Also, are HTC going to release an official extended battery in the near future?

2) When will the copy protection issue with Google get sorted out?

3) Are you going to release a version of HTC Sync for the Mac operating system?

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Android :: IM Invisible By Contact

Dec 2, 2009

Is there and IM app that has the same functionality of the windows Yahoo! IM in that it can allow you to appear either online or invisible by a selected contact (i.e. so you can appear available to some people and offline/ invisible) to others without modifying your contact lists or having to create multiple accounts? I currently have meebo and mundu IM but I don't believe either has this ability.

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Android :: Invisible Alert Dialog?

Oct 22, 2010

Believe me, I am not trying to create an invisible AlertDialog. But I believe I have one. I'm not making this up. Behavior: main activity starts and is completely unresponsive. No dialog appears. No Force close/ANR appears even after much time in this state. But if I push the back button, it becomes responsive again. This does not occur when debuggable is true in the manifest, so I can't investigate using the debugger. But I found out the following with log statements. MainActrivity:OnCreate starts another activity, a welcome screen. Main Activity: OnResume is called while the other activity is visible. OnResume creates the dialog and calls dlg.Show(); WelcomeActivity is dismissed. MainActivity:OnResume is called. The OnResume method is smart enough to note that the dialog has already been shown and does not create it again. MainActivity is unresponsive. No dialog in sight. When I push the back button, a log statement confirms that the OnCancelListener is called on the dialog. This is Nexus One with 2.2.1. As cool as an invisible dialog is, I'd rather not have it. Can I fix it?

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Android :: How To Remove / Invisible Scroll Bar

Apr 9, 2010

i added some buttons in HorizontalScrollView and its working fine. But I want to remove/invisible the scrollbar, instead of scroll bar i want to use greater than > and less than < images of both sides of scrollView, on clicking on that greater_than image i want to scroll it to right side. how can i do that.

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Android :: Possible To Set Items In Listview Invisible?

Jul 20, 2010

I have a listview that's using a custom adapter. I want to dynamically show/remove items from the listview. I've tried everything inside the getView() method in my view adapter. I've tried doing setVisiblity(View.GONE) on the view I'm returning. And it infact doesn't draw the view, but it allocates space for the view and it's just a blank black space.

Is this even possible to set items in listview invisible?

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HTC EVO 4G :: Transparent Lock Pattern - Invisible For Android

Jun 25, 2010

I was wondering if there was a transparent lock pattern for the evo. I found this : Invisible Lockscreen Pattern for Android but have no idea what to do with it or how to use it.

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Android :: TextView Showing Invisible Chars In 2.0 - 2.1

Jun 27, 2010

In testing my app across different OS versions I've noticed what appears to be carriage returns showing as visible squares in TextView. This doesn't happen on Froyo wondering if anyone knows how get around this in previous versions?

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Android : Can I Make A Button Invisible / Remove

Nov 8, 2010

How can I remove a button in android, or make it invisible.

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Android :: Receive A SMS From Defined Number In An Invisible Way?

Sep 24, 2010

In my android application that is now working fine, I am sending custom SMS from a user to other one.

Once I detect the SMS come from my application, I do my stuff with the message and everything work fine.

But now, I do not want the SMS application to detect this message as it is totally useless for the user.

So what I would like to do:
As soon I receive it, I get the text and avoid the system to get it ( or at least stop the notification for this message)

Any Idea on how to do? code....

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Android :: New Market App Protection

Jul 29, 2010

Apps can choose to require connection to google to verify they are legit EVERY TIME they are opened .....so if u happen to be offline then u won't be able to open the app. Android Market apps now have to check in with licensing servers to confirm legitimacy. i have no problem paying for apps, but if a cocktail mixing app refuses to open to give me a drink recipe because i happen to be not connected to wifi or a data connection then i would not buy that app ....as it is i do not have an always on data connection.

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Android :: Piracy Protection

Oct 14, 2009

I am no security expert and have not thought this out all the way, but could a workable solution to the pirating problem be something like this:

1. The market clients (like Google Market, AndAppStore, SlideME) could record on their servers some kind of identifier about who bought the app and perhaps what Android device it was bought for. They already capture the who information.

2. Android apps that care can, on first launch, ask the user about their identifier and what service they bought the app from.

3. The app, or the servers that support the app, can query, via http, the market client service to ask did so-and-so get this app from you?

4. If an affirmative response can be had then the app is not pirated. Otherwise the app is pirated

Google Market, AndAppStore, SlideME, etc... will need to make such a service available, via http.

It would be straight-forward to generate a list of installed market clients for the user to select from. The market clients may even be able to supply the user identification so user does not need to enter it.

The application could retrieve from its servers the list of market clients is believes are legitimate in order to prevent the bogus clients from spoofing it.

If you installed an app w/out a market client and the app did not intend for such an installation to happen, like on rooted phones using adb, then the app is pirated.

And finally, could this process be invisible to the user and just involve communication between the app and installed market clients and the market clients servers and the apps servers?

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Android :: Lawyers And Self Protection

Jan 16, 2010

I was just wondering what your thoughts are on having some law enforcement on your side as well as legal protection. As an independent developer its hard to afford legal nonsense like this. In your experience has it been worth it to include legal agreements with your apps and do you have protection like a LLC to protect yourself from being sued into oblivion?

Also what licenses are freely available that might be of interest?

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Android :: WebView And Layout Makes Buttons Invisible

Sep 25, 2010

I've got the following layout:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="vertical">

<WebView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:id="@+id/webview"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
/>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:orientation="horizontal">

<Button android:id="@+id/back"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="Back" />

<Button android:id="@+id/page_number"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="1 / 100" />

<Button android:id="@+id/next"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:text="Next" />
</LinearLayout>
</LinearLayout>

Which results in the following. How do I make the buttons fit the screen and stop the WebView pushing them off?

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Android :: Full Version Invisible In The Market On Droid

Nov 9, 2009

Two days ago, we uploaded a new version of the full version of our app (SpecTrek) to the market. Improvements include support for QVGA and WVGA screens.

We changed nothing in the "Developer Console" (Language: en_US, "All locations" selected).

Now we have received the first complaint of a Droid user who cannot find the full version on the market. The light version (that has not been upgraded yet) can be found ok. The good news is that the light version seems to work on the Droid, something we couldn't really test (except for some simulator runs on 2.0).

So presumably we did something stupid in the upgraded version. I can only assume it must be something in the manifest, as it seems unreasonably to assume the market software looks at anything else in the apk.

The only change in the manifest (besides versionCode/versionName) is the following:

CODE:.....................

There is also a "uses-sdk" entry, but that didn't change: <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="3" />

Is there anyone with a Droid that can verify the full version is not available to them (searching for 'SpecTrek' should find both the light and full versions)?

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Android :: Directories And Files On External Storage Are Invisible

Oct 11, 2010

I have created a directory and even a file in that directory on the external storage, I am able to read and write into that but the problem is they are not visible on the emulator i.e, in the phone.

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