If I publish a paid application with very good idea and concept. And realize later that someone already publish an app with this idea. What will happen?I understand that this may be difficult to answer.Perhaps I'm not posting this seeking for absolute answer, but for recommendations or a place where I can find more information and learn more about this kind of stuff.
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I'm just curious if anyone has noticed the 10 or so PAID applications that are soundboards for characters or movies.This is very clearly illegal.It's one thing to make one of these apps and offer it for free, but to sell someone else's work without permission is against FEDERAL Law.I highly doubt any of these devs has licensed to use Family Guy, Harold and Kumar, etc.That's copyrighted material, and it won't surprise me if Google ends up in a lawsuit brought on by TV/Movie industry over it.I realize it's all in fun, but it's still illegal, and because they're selling someone else's copyrighted work, it won't take long for someone to notice and send a C&D.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if it is legal to use the Android logo (the green droid) for my own company? Can I say take the Android logo and slap a Superman S on its chest and use it as my company's (SuperDroid) logo? What if I made my own logo which resembles the Android logo, would that be OK?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am writing a game, and in it I would like to use the Android image (green robot as shown on the Google Groups heading and other Android literature) as a background, and the android green color as the color of my game objects. I would also like to use the name 'Android' in the name of the game (which will be something like 'Android-Ball' or something like that). I would like to be able to charge for the game on the Android Marketplace. Is this allowed? Would I have to pay royalties? Is there a copyright for the specific color of green? Is the name in copyright?
View 3 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone have any good references for designing and implementing an idea I have for an android application. My idea is for an application that stores information and reviews about a specific location and presents this information to user.I have gone through all the tutorials and have been reading up on anything and everything about android. Now I am ready to challenge myself with my first app.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI will keep this short - I would like it when I open my Google Maps it automatically turns on my GPS and automatically turns it off when I close Google Maps!Makes a TON of sense to me - and could be a simple feature to add on as an App I would think?
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My main program has to load a webpage. My question is how to display the web-loading progress of the main program on the welcome page, while showing the welcome page until the download is completed.
Does anyone have any good references for designing and implementing an idea I have for an android application.
My idea is for an application that stores information and reviews about a specific location and presents this information to user.
I have gone through all the tutorials and have been reading up on anything and everything about android. Now I am ready to challenge myself with my first app.
I need clear idea on Xml-Parsing in android
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an idea for developing software for android which keeps records of total month bill with back up of 1year. So pls help me which eclipse i use for developing this idea in java platform.
View 2 Replies View RelatedYou know how google docs can allow you to share a doc to be edited real time just like a wave or anything else can?I think that idea should be extended to the code creation process so that coding can be done on the cloud as well.This way, depending on a system like mercurial to do a complex set of updates wouldn't be near as much because if two users were to edit the same document at the same time there would be only one submission.it would work just like this for 2+ workers on any single document! I think it's a great idea!
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am trying to run android sample applications using intellij idea and R.java file is missing form notepad samples source directory.
View 2 Replies View RelatedAfter publishing a free app to Android Market I have received numerous solicitations from 3rd party app stores to publish my app such as handster.com and mobango.com. To date, I have not pursued that and my app is only available on Android Market.
I would love to hear some developer opinions about this: Is it better to stick to Android Market only, or does it make sense to publish your free apps in as many stores as you can? What do you think are the pros and cons to each approach?
Does anyone know any good tutorial about setting up environment and importing libraries for Android development with IntelliJ IDEA?
I downloaded some Android plugins but still the IDE marks all Android objects (Activity, SurfaceHolder...) red.
I went to the Dave Matthews Band concert in Columbus Tuesday night, and it got me thinking up some really cool app ideas.the first one would actually be possible: I was in dire need of another beer but my friends and I were in the middle of a very large crowd on the floor area, and I was worried I wouldn't be able to find them again. What if there was an app to save a group members cell number and locate them by gps on your return trip? they would probably have to enable location on their phone. you could have a couple dots much like google maps that show each of your locations.the other one is impossible most likely but it would be awesome. an app that tells you which beer/food line is the shortest, the prices, and its location.any devices out there wanna take on that first app idea?
View 10 Replies View RelatedI would like to ask since the one thing I am not to fond of about this phone is a lack of a notification LED if someone could make an app that would light up the bottom rows of soft keys to replace the LED missing?
I was sitting here thinking of an idea that would give some sort of indication that there was some sort of notification that needed my attention. Is this even possible? I know the screen and those buttons are lit by different means.
I think it's a good idea as that is my only beef with this phone.
I don't want to say first come first serve, because of time zone differences and the times that people can be on the computer. I would like to get some ideas on how I can give them away in a fair manner.
View 23 Replies View RelatedI've come up with an idea for a battery status indicator application. On my old Windows Mobile phone I had an application(abcPowerMeter) which could show the current power consumption of the phone. Like this: If we can get this on the Galaxy, then it can be coupled with the existing battery status information to give a pretty good estimate of how long the battery is going to last under current load.Instead of showing a notoriously unreliable and counterintuitive green bar the phone would show something like this in the tray.
View 6 Replies View RelatedTo get the most out of your Incredible's battery, you have to bump charge. To bump charge (I think) you charge your battery until the light turns green, then turn your phone off, and wait until the light turns green again. I think this is a hassle, especially when I want my phone ready to go when I wake up (and I don't have time to bump charge).I was thinking that an app could be made to automatically bump charge the phone. All the app would do is turn the phone off once the battery initially charges to 100%, so the phone would keep charging once off, and get a real 100% charge.I am not sure if an app like this could be made, but it would be useful! The only problem I see is: after bump charging does your phone loose charge for every second it is plugged in, or does it stay at the true 100% until it is unplugged? If it loses charge while plugged in after bump charging, then this wouldn't work.
View 10 Replies View RelatedI was going to try a new ROM today, but since my last 2.2 update returned an "error" about not having an app2sd partition (and my SD card is getting somewhat "junky" anyway), I was thinking of just wiping the entire contents and reformatting prior to flashing.I made a mirror copy of my current SD contents to my computer (just in case), but I'm not sure if reformatting the SD is a bad idea.I'm also not sure at which point during the entire re-flashing process I should perform the reformat.Can anyone shed their opinion on if and when to do something like this?
View 5 Replies View RelatedLooks like android application security has already been hacked: http://strazzere.com/blog/
View 4 Replies View RelatedI just had a potential customer tell me they couldn't find my app in the market. So I did some research and it turns out it's because I have copy protection turned on. Seems like a bad idea to turn it off, but I don't want to miss potential customers either. What do you all do in this situation?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have backed up and un installed certain apps, but I'm now curious how to restore these apps? I tried with a non protected app and it seems to have worked fine now.. are protected apps not able to be restored?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have dropbox, and love it. I go to school as well and have password protected PDF's, is there are reader that will allow me to enter the user name and password? I can't get the official Adobe Reader to selected the text fields. Are there any recommendations?
View 7 Replies View RelatedLooking for a program that will allow me to store information about my bank accounts, credit cards, software registration numbers. Needs to be password protected. I was using eWallet by illium software with my Windows Mobile Smartphone and would like something like that. Have downloaded the demo version of Wallet Pro from Market and it seems to be something that might work. Anyone out there in Android Land know of anything else that might do the trick?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI have an HTC Incredible and I noticed what appears to be protected blocks on one of the home screens. The home screen has only a couple of programs on it that take up 1 block. When I tried to move the location of one of the programs, I noticed there is a 1x2 vertical strip that is blank that is just to the top right of center that won't allow me to place anything. There is no reason why I shouldn't since there is plenty of room on the screen. Could there possibly be something hidden there? All i see is the background and touching that region does nothing.
View 1 Replies View RelatedPeople are having problems finding my app (Advanced Map Live Wallpaper) in the Android Market.It's free, not copy-protected, and the only requirement is SDK level 7 or above. However, it's invisible on some Nexus 2.1 devices, a lot of Droids (2.1), and a smattering of other phones.The fact it disappears seems to be completely random, and it's driving me nuts because I don't know if it's a misconfiguration by me somewhere or a Market problem.I know there's been an issue for copy protected apps, but I can't see how this applies to me.
* Copy protection is off * It's set to list in all locations
* It's free * It's not localised ("Localized to: unknown")
I have a friend that sent me this message today, which sounds like a great idea:
I've been messing with setcpu and trying out some underclocking profiles. Underclocking while the screen is off as well as reducing the CPU power has gotten me 75% battery left after 8 hours. This is with constant emails but no wireless, bluetooth, or gps. This is better than I was getting under windows mobile.
There is an app in the market which is written just for the Moment that uses the camera flash as a flashlight -- essentially it turns on the camera flash. The application says not to use the flash "too long" or damage may occur, but the "too long" time period is not defined. First, will having the flash on for an period of time damage it? Second, if so, any idea what maximum period of time would be "safe?"
View 19 Replies View RelatedI want to hide some info (encryption keys) in a private area. I know there are a lot of threads on the topic and from what i can tell - it basically comes down to - there's no security just kidding. It seems like the data you have in your private area /data/data/com.company.product/files is only accessible to your application, so it would be sufficient to store anything (like encryption keys for example) in just plain text files there if you wanted. the big drawback of doing this though is that a "rooted" phone would be able to access that area -- therefore, no security. does "copy protection" solve this problem? if I "copy protect" my .apk bundle, I know that that makes it so that it cannot be seen by "rooted" phones in the Android Market, but what about if the .apk bundle got out in the wild (i.e. posted on some website, not via market). Would a "rooted" phone then be able to grab and install the .apk file (and ultimately gain access to the app-private area)? Could someone install the copy protected .apk file in an emulator?
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