Yes, but we were told for a very long time not to use "copy proctection." It would have been a nice gesture to actually tell us what it means -- that anybody with Astro Flie Manager can pirate our app. I was not aware of that and I was always in the belief that only rooted users could copy off the .apk.
On Nov 18, 4:19 pm, String <sterling.ud...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Non-forward-locked APKs are just stored in /data/app, and can be > copied the same as any other file. If an app is forward-locked - what > the Market calls "copy protected" - it's kept in a different dir with > system-level privs. Which means that you need a rooted device to get > at it... but this is the major hole that forward-locking has had from > the beginning. > > String > > On Nov 18, 6:24 am, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I was wondering about the exact same thing ; actually this very topic > > made me finally integrate LVL. What stops the user from using Astro > > to "back up" my paid app, get a refund and then restore it? > > > On Nov 18, 5:44 am, David Orriss Jr <codethou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Anyone have any idea how this would work or what APIs would be used? I've > > > had people say that root is required, but Astro doesn't seem to need that. > > > > Anyone have a code snip to show how this works? > > > > -- > > > David Orriss Jr. > > > > My blog:http://www.codethought.com/blog- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
