Hello, I have an Android developer account and a couple of paid apps published on the Market since a while now. I have decided to use Android LVL for copy protection from the start on all of my apps, I found it pretty straightforward to use so I told myself why not? extra security is better than no security, right?
However, after almost one year since my apps have been out in the wild, I keep getting from time to time unsatisfied customers which after purchasing one app constantly get NOT_LICENSED replies from Android licensing servers. And I'm not talking only about occasional NOT_LICENSED caused either by lack of network coverage etc. but about clients which try for days and days(yes, there are clients like this, and they are right, since they paid for their apps!) and still get NOT_LICENSED. Now, here goes my questions: 1) For Android dev and apps publishers out there: have you noticed any wave of false negatives complaints from your clients lately? The above- mentioned symptom occurs in my case since the beginning, but since 2 weeks now it happens at a much higher frequency. 2) For any Google representative who might see this: are there any kind of License Validation statistics on the Android Licensing server side? Like for instance validation attempts per application, with timestamp and Android Market client version and client ID(not email for security reasons but "something")? And with some extra message giving a reason for NOT_LICENSED?(apart the obvious didn't buy reason, could there be others?) I think this should be implemented at LVL level and not at app level due to permissions requirement(an app implementing statistics would definitely require network access which for some apps does not justify). So, can we have access to these statistics? If not now, maybe sometimes in the future? Florin. -- 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
