I know this will be an unpopular opine, but how about re-releasing with; more features, additional content and innovations. Evolve so your version is superior to the knock off.
Spend your energy working on a superior / faster moving application, not with legal means. It sucks when you have direct plagiarism like this, but expending the minimal amount of effort and emotional anguish to flag it appropriately is the winning move. -Joel On 20 January 2016 at 13:48, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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/CAKiAkGQ_isSqNBK83wT_b0i1L5ec1gMQz4DXF9aR6it7j3F0nA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
