I put some code into my app to allow LVL failure up to five times before declaring the app unlicensed. In addition, once licensed, I only checked again once a month.
Even still, I had complaints, and pirated copies of my app found their way to warez sites. Like all anti-piracy schemes I've seen so far, LVL was more effective in annoying legitimate users than thwarting piracy. IMO, this sort of thing should be built into the platform, without developers or users having to worry about it. Recently, I removed LVL from my app, as I did not see a noticeable increase in sales for the time I was using LVL. Only one of my apps is popular enough to be pirated, and according to the analytics that I used to have in my app, more than 95% of the users were using a pirated copy. Unfortunately, it seems very difficult for a developer to convert pirates into a revenue stream. I've also removed the analytics now, over privacy concerns. Just my observations, having had an app in the Market since early 2009. -Howard On Sep 16, 12:45 pm, Kenny Wyland <speci...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is really starting to become an issue. I'm getting bad reviews > and my word of mouth recommendations for my apps are stopping because > the Google Licensing service is repeatedly denying users the first > time they start the app. I get emails from users regularly and I need > to find a solution. I'm using a ServerManagedPolicy, I'm essentially > using the example code from the dev website. > > Does anyone have an example of a policy which handles some local > caching and such? > > Kenny -- 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
