Really hoping this is something that can happen soon. Or even being able to "gift" an app in the worst case. I've ported an app to iOS and being able to provide up to 50 promotional copies per release is how they do things. It's pretty awesome to be able to give your work to fellow developers, or relatives who otherwise would have zero use for it. This is something that hurts Android to a degree. It's pretty awkward if not impossible with Android, for the reasons you state below.
Market team, please? Something similar came up during last year's Google I/O fireside chat, hopefully by now they will be at least considering it? On Friday, June 22, 2012 1:48:14 AM UTC-4, TreKing wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 3:47 AM, DangerMcD <crash3m...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, I was just wondering if there was any way for a developer to >> receive and distribute promotional codes, keys, or licenses for a paid app >> once it is on the app > > > No. > > >> store. If not, what would be the best way for a developer to distribute >> copies of the paid app while still having a license or key check of some >> sort? > > > There isn't. The Google Play store won't allow updating apps that haven't > been paid for through Google Checkout with the given Google Account. > So you would have to do the key / license checking yourself against your > own web server and continue to manually send app updates to those people. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago > transit tracking app for Android-powered devices > > -- 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
