About 24 hours after a buyer has purchased the app, their payment will have gone through and you can use the Checkout console to issue a full or partial refund. I have a separate system for distributing my app to beta testers, but I have used this method in a few cases as well.
-SJ On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Adam Hammer <adamhamm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, the Apks are just content providers, no activities or > interactive services (other then the ContentResolver interfaces). So > no place for a splash screen in them. > > I have a ContentProvider that supplies information about resources in > the apk file that can be accessed, each package inherits this class > and exposes a new authority with access to new resources. > > My first purchase turned into a return 4 hours later. I'm sure it's > just a pirate and my stuff is already leaked to the real world. > Luckily I didn't publish anything of great value to the market. I > emailed the 1st purchaser a few hours after purchase to make sure > everything went ok, and then again after the refund. No response to > either email. > > I'm attempting to integrate market licensing to this, that way I can > prevent cheap bastards from doing a purchase & return and keeping the > item and then giving it away for free. With Market Licensing I can > also put my friends on test accounts for the time being. > > I am thinking you might be able to let them put the purchase through > and then give them a refund without deactivation, but I dunno yet > because the one guy who bought it already got a refund. > > > No > > On Oct 5, 9:09 pm, Chris Stratton <cs07...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Why don't you just put the giftee's name on a splash screen? (and >> maybe also somewhere else, not in plaintext) >> >> On Oct 5, 9:52 pm, Adam Hammer <adamhamm...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> > Is there a way to gift a paid app if you are the developer? >> >> > I want to gift VIA the android market. I don't want to give apk's in >> > the wild, and I might want to use Market Authorization on the gifted >> > apk's (although I suppose if I can just handle market authorization I >> > can send the secure apk, I just don't want to mail insecure ones out). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
