I understand what you are asking. I don't know the answer for sure though. My understanding is that it will simply always return as licensed, but don't take my word for it.
However this is not really a big issue: - Test it out. deploy and try it... if it doesn't work you can deploy again. - If you need to, simply add a boolean switch to the check licensed call so that it always passes. If you do bother to test it, by all means let the rest of us know definitively what the answer is :) - Brill Pappin On Feb 3, 12:01 am, rajorshi <groups.rajor...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had developed a game intending to publish it as a paid application > using the Android LVL with the default ServerManagedPolicy licensing > policy. Now, the powers that be have decided that we have to publish > it as a free app. For some reason I do not want to remove/disable the > license checks. My question is: how does the licensing service handle > free apps? Will checks always fail or always pass? Is there any way I > can make the license service accept any installation of my free app as > licensed? > > I found the following on free apps in the official documentation, but, > it doesn't help me much. > > "Only paid applications published through Market can use the service. > [...] Licensing is currently for paid apps only, since free apps are > considered licensed for all users." > > I would have assumed that checks will fail, but, I remember reading > somewhere that for free apps the licensing server will return a very > large validity timestamp (long.MAX) ensuring that the license is > always valid for free apps. Unfortunately, I have lost the link to > that source. > > Note: > 1. The problem is not as crazy as it sounds. It's just that I am not > able to explain my use case further without giving away some > proprietary information. > 2. I had posted the same question on StackOverflow but did not get any > response. Hence, posting it here. -- 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
