pirating an APK is easy: get it, take it off the device, change the package name, repackage it as your own, put it up on google play. Send google play a takedown notice and hope for the best.
Kris On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:25 AM, WeiHung <automobileapp...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an paid app on google play. Unfortunately, I found the paid apk is > distributed over the internet. And the distributed apk is EXACTLY the same > as what I uploaded to google play. > > > What method does the hacker take to get the apk? > > > Is there any method to protect my effort? > > I found some suggestions here. > https://www.airpair.com/android/posts/adding-tampering-detection-to-your-android-app > > > Is there any other suggestion? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/52df9b7c-f5d7-4219-bf93-bf6ff4bd59c7%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/CAF1Sy-Hh_RQmW%2BXHD26oWteyOTJp4n%3D3GZ_mSJGi8FCHZfCUTQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
