Welcome to software development. There is no known way to stop software piracy short of software as a service (and don't worry, many very smart people have tried). If it really bothers you that much then write your software as a service and have the installed application be a dumb terminal. Android devices are always online so unless you want your app to work where there is no cell service (something that 95% of apps don't need) this is your best bet.
On a more personal note, I very much hope that Android doesn't try to do anything about the piracy issue. What Google has already done in the name of anti-piracy (ADP can't purchase copyprotected apps, can't install to the SD card, etc.) has pissed people off and instead lead to more piracy (piracy is my only option for copy-protected content on my ADP1, and if you want to make your phone better and have 8GB of app storage than root it... you can also pirate then too). In the end, anything you do short of software as a service won't change a thing about how much your app gets pirated but it almost certainly will piss off your paying customers. I know I'm pissed off that my ADP1 can't buy off the marketplace and is limited to 100MB of app storage space instead of the 1GB of storage space available on the device, not counting all the 8GB SD cards I have lying around. If I had a choice (which I think I should as a developer) any apps I develop would be installable to SD instead of only to internal storage. This will result in my paying customers keeping the application installed longer and therefor improving my brand recognition. On Jul 22, 6:30 am, Moto <medicalsou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sorry but I'm very mad about this situation! I found one of my > applications on the web all over for free! Every time I do an update 1 > day goes by and BAM! For free on the web... > > So I want the help from all developers, we need to come up with > something to make this at least harder to distribute. > > 1. Can we use phone numbers to register the application? And if > illegally installed we got a phone number to use so pursue the > pirate...? > > 2. Do we have access to the phones unique ID? This could be used to > track who is using the application... How many illegal copies are > runnning... > > There are ideas I have but will just go against the user friendliness > ways of Android.... > > Please provide your ideas... thanks! > > -Moto! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
