Android :: Sell Paid Application From An Unsupported Country?
Oct 14, 2010
I want to sell an application developed by me, but this service is not supported in my country (Romania).
So I want to ask a friend of mine who lives in a country (France or US) where selling paid applications is possible to help me with this.
Now I don't know exactly what to tell him about the process:
What is required by his side ? A bank account or a credit card ? How the money are transferred to him ? What exactly Google checks to verify if the developer is in one of the supported countries ?
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Nov 5, 2009
I am planning to release my app (which i have been pllanning to do so for quite a few time now, waiting for the expansion of google checkout to happen).I am from India and I am planning to release the application using my friends UK Bank account.Is this advisable? Are there any things that I should take care of?Also is there any chance of google expanding the google checkout or in introducing new payout options like paypal?I have been waiting for the support for quite sometime and I am very much depressed on the issue that google is still not expanding the services, ive sent numerous mails to them asking for atleast the estimated release date but in vain.
Its been nearly an yeaar since android is relmore than an year since android phones have been released and still there is such slow progress. iPhones allows developers from most of the countries to publish their apps and customers from any country can buy the same, i think they can even do it through itunes.I think this is going to hurt the progress and development of android big time. If apple can do it why not google? I have been expecting some response from google atleast on the estimated date, so that we can plan accordingly.
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Feb 22, 2010
this question is now obsolete, as Android Market includes much more countries and such services as PayPal Mobile Payments Library are available.I'd like to sell my Android application, but I live in Poland and in my country* Android Market supports only free apps (we cannot sell and we cannot buy too).What is the best way to sell application in such situation? I can accept PayPal money transfers, but I don't know how to distribute APK package without exposing it to getting pirated. Did someone tried it already and succeeded? you may be surprised, paid apps are supported only in 12 countries worldwide.
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Apr 24, 2012
I want to send international sms.... is there any app that can send free international sms to any country from any country?
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Sep 28, 2010
I'm interested in developing an android app that makes use of an OpenCV android port. Particularly, I want to use SURF features which comes embedded in the OpenCV framework but I'm not sure if then I will be able to sell this app. anyway, is there any non-free app making use of any of the OpenCV android ports?
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Nov 6, 2010
Is it possible to install a paid for application on my phone and my tablet or do I just have to pay and install on both devices?
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Feb 15, 2010
i have published my application in android market but i am unable to download my paid application from android market. i can get my free application in android market. i am accessing from india. how i can access united states android market?
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Nov 16, 2010
This comes up because I am changing the model for my freed and paid apps. Besides all the other things I need to figure out to build this (I'm trying the library method), I'd like to transfer preferences smoothly from DEMO app to paid App. I'm sure that some of you are old hands at this and can give some advice. I've tried the Demo and License, where a license app will unlock the Demo app and make it full.
The Market users can't handle that. My customers didn't want to have two app icons once they installed the license. So I made it invisible. Now I have users that say they can't "open" the license after purchase. It states very clearly in the app description that they need to install the free version first, but I've discovered that not everyone reads that vast 325 character description before buying even some of the most expensive apps on the Market.
I've decided not to fight it. I do believe that customers will be more happy overall and there will be less refunds, if they do try the demo app first. It gives them 16 days to try instead of 24 hours to get a refund. But I'm not going to force that. So, I'll be going down the Demo and Full model route. Just as an aside, I really wish the market would support time limited trials. There is difference between real support and faking it as I have been.
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May 3, 2010
I have an issue related publishing the paid app to android market. (My application is internet connection based app.) If I've put the app to the android market, can user who bought the app pass to anyone? How is its security (I mean safe of .apk file)? Also, what is payment tool of android market? My main point is choosing the best way to link paid user to our system. Actually I don't know how to link paid user account to my system(by email address or device unique ID? What is better way?).
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Oct 2, 2009
I have an application for which I am planning to release both a free and a paid version. I found that this will require the two versions of the application to each have different package names.
When a user upgrades from the free version to the paid version, the paid version needs to be able to access the database built by the free version. I am trying to understand the best way to make sure that upgrade does not disrupt the user's data.
I have read that the AndroidManifest file setting for shared user id should allow both applications to access the same data. I don't need the applications to both be running simultaneously, as I expect the user will uninstall the free version after upgrading to the paid version. However I need to make sure that if possible the user's data is not lost and is still accessible and usable by the paid version of the application.
I have read about a problem with the shared user id where uninstalling one application will cause the other shared application to stop working because its permissions get deleted, (see details at http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2773 ) Apparently this issue is fixed in doughnut, but since all the currently deployed android phones do not have doughnut yet, this still seems like a significant problem.
In addition to the database information, I would also like to preserve the user's default shared preferences settings after the upgrade. However the default shared preference settings are not as critical as the data in the database.
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Nov 3, 2010
I'm nearing the end of a small project to develop an android app. As a first time developer, and a one-man band, I am anticipating selling it at a low price point. I have followed some of the discussions on the Android blog and elsewhere about licensing and obfuscation, and I am in two minds. Part of me thinks that I have spent a long time on the development, so why should I make it easy for people to pirate the app? The other part thinks that it could be fairly time consuming to implement licensing and obfuscation, stop people using the app from non-google supported countries and wondering how much of an issue it is anyway for a small app.
However, if you google even a small app and add .apk at the end the number of "warez" downloads is fairly shocking if it's true. Just wondering whether anyone has any opinions either way, about the impact of piracy on a small developer. I'm not expecting to make my fortune with this app, and would aim for I guess 1000 downloads or so. I may even release an ad-supported version some way down the line depending on how sales held up, which would solve most of the problem I guess.
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Jun 4, 2009
We have a paid app in the market place, we would like to release a demo of the paid app. I was hoping we could just recompile w/ the same package name, but apparently that does not work. I have tried manually changing package name etc, but it is a chore, and it seems that several things that automatically happen in eclipse cause more harm than good when renaming the package name. Which brings me to my next question. If having a new package name is the only way to accomplish this. Is there an easy way to fork the paid app, where keeping the changes synchronized is easier? Some kind of Source Control?
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Jun 10, 2010
I want to have a free version and a premium version of the same application. When people buy the application, I want them to be able to "upgrade" without losing their data, i.e. the premium version should install over the free version.I want to use the same code base and just switch a setting to build the premium version.
Andoid Market does not let me convert a free app to a paid app, so the trivial option is not available.I am curious if someone has tried this successfully. How does Android Market identify an application - will it think that the premium version is a different app and just install it in parallel?
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Jul 16, 2010
I've been rooting my phone for about a month now, and I'm currently running Kangerade 5.0.9 (great job Jrummy) but I have a quick question about Titanium Backup. I have a feeling you will all be hesitant to answer, but Im going to ask anyway. Note I have no intentions of stealing here, Im just curious to see if this is a bug.
If I purchase a paid application from the market, back it up, and then refund the application, would titanium backup be able to restore it?
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May 19, 2010
I am in total utter shock right now. I have finished porting my game to Android and now I can't sell it because I am Canadian? I guess I should have looked into this before hand and hence I feel like a bit of an idiot but come on. Is there any way around this?
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Mar 4, 2009
Is it already possible for people outside US and GB to sell applications on the market? Because i want to set up a merchant account and on the form it is only possible to choose between US/GB for my location!?May this is only possible when we will receive the android update (market is then no beta version)?
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Nov 3, 2010
I would like to distribute my app for free, and then sell extra features that can be added-on later. Is it possible to do this?
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Jun 11, 2010
I have read on the market support that "If you have previously published an application for free, you cannot change it to have a price". But I was wondering, if at the contrary I change my app from paid to free and some time after I want to re change it from free to paid! Can I? And if yes, Have I to wait some period (I have read something like this in the contract)?
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Apr 15, 2010
I'm looking at ways to sell my app to countries where Android Market does not allow people to buy apps (only free apps available in market).
I was looking at Slideme.org, but most of the apps there seem free and the details on their website seem scant about how to actually setup an account so they can pay me using say PayPal. Also, I couldn't reach them by phone, so I'm guessing its a pretty small operation.
I was also thinking about using Google Checkout to sell directly from my website. Would use a buy now button for digital content delivery, using a server 2 server back end post to send a license key to Google checkout which they only show to user after they've paid (or authorized, or something). User would then enter license key on my website using an Android phone browser only and if key is good would get redirected to the .apk file for download.
Still lots of risks for piracy. I suppose having the user enter the license key in the app itself and having the app communicate back with the server for validation might be better, and there are other solutions for that as well.
My main questions are: - Does anyone have experience using SlideMe for actually selling apps, and are they good with service and getting you paid? -Is there any issue with using the same Google Checkout account that is linked to my sales on the Android Market to sell directly from my website?? -Is it against any Google policy to sell an app directly using Google Checkout for the same app that is available through Android Market?
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Nov 12, 2010
I'm a developer from India, I wanted to sell my apps in Android Market. Is there any way of doing it? When will Google Checkout be launched in India?
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Jun 4, 2010
I have 3 existing Sprint lines, month-to-month now after contract expired. I'd like to do the following:
Get a "Everything data family" plan
Get 3 new EVOs
Activate only 1 EVO, other 2 family members are non-technical, couldn't care less about gadgets and want to keep their old phones they know how to use
Sell 2 brand new in-box EVOs on ebay for about $500 each (that price might go down as supply increases, but still should be a nice profit over the $199 I'll pay for the phones)
De-activate the $10/mo 4G surcharge on the other 2 lines
Of course I'll be committed to a 2-year contract on the "Everything data family" plan and the other 2 lines will make minimal use of the data, but it's still a lot cheaper to do it this way than to create a new individual plan for the EVO and keep the basic family plan for the other 2 phones.
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May 13, 2010
I want to get rid of my Hero since the EVO is coming soon. But its pretty obvious that unlike GSM phones I cant just pop the SIM and sell it.I need some help on how to sell my phone and stay on contract the same time... I want to sell it before release day for the EVO so it wouldnt be as simple as pushing over my number to the EVO.... SO how do I sell my phone and keep my contract going. help please??
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Oct 5, 2010
I've had my Incredible since it came out and have loved it, but i'm a little short on money and am thinking about selling my Incredible and just going back to a flip phone I still have. My question is, how do I go about doing this? Say I wanted to sell it on Ebay, or anywhere for that matter. I know that I can activate my old phone, but how do I make the Incredible ready to be owned by someone else? I'm not totally familiar with the whole 'ESN' stuff and how it would work with phone numbers etc.
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Feb 21, 2010
Is there any way at all where you can find in which country the phone is currently in, let's say if I travel to Spain can I in code know this information somehow. Using GPS is not good for me, but I know the phone recognizes where it is, but I don't know if I can access that info in code...
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Jun 23, 2010
I'm a soon to be Android owner and will probably start using this forum often, but I currently have an iPod Touch. I'm upgrading from my Blackberry Storm (for obvious reasons) to the HTC Incredible. So I'm having a tough time deciding if I should sell my iPod Touch when I get the Incredible. Is the music player as user friendly and high quality as the iPod's? How is the browser speed over WiFi?
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May 8, 2010
1st month, US sales...the EVO vs the new iPhone - which will sell more units?
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Sep 11, 2009
Anyone know how to check the user's country? I'm looking for a way that's faster than using GPS and reverse geocoding. (I need the country where the phone is registered, not their current location, in any case.) Is there any constant in the settings?
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Aug 9, 2010
I can get Country code ISO using TelephonyManager function getNetworkCountryIso(), this functions returns country code US for USA, but how can i get numeric country code?
I am unable to find any function for it that give me country code in number for example function that will return 92 for Pakistan.
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Oct 5, 2010
Does the Twitter4J library for Android work for all Android versions?
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Aug 20, 2010
I'm traveling to Europe next week and would like to only take my android phone around instead of a netbook and was wondering if it's possible to use it without the sim card or how to disable everything so I'm not charged?
I have the tmobile HTC magic that has a custom rom (cynangenmod) and would like to take it to Europe to use the browser as well as the GPS if possible, but don't want to be charged.
I have coplit for gps, so I don't need internet data when driving.
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