[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-25 Thread Johan Abramsson
Hi, Some information can be found here:http://developer.sonyericsson.com/ community/message/132088#132088 In short: Everytime SE issued a new firmware they needed to register it with Android Market, and that could according to their support not be performed until after the firmware had been publish

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-20 Thread Dianne Hackborn
What "shops"? On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 7:48 AM, sblantipodi wrote: > unfortunantly not all shops supports Google LVL or Dynamic Licensing. > > > On Nov 19, 8:57 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > > Forward locked copy protection is really fragile, as it requires that > nobody > > except approved entiti

[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-20 Thread sblantipodi
unfortunantly not all shops supports Google LVL or Dynamic Licensing. On Nov 19, 8:57 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > Forward locked copy protection is really fragile, as it requires that nobody > except approved entities get to the data (.apk).  Thus you *must* trust the > device you are deliverin

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread Dianne Hackborn
Forward locked copy protection is really fragile, as it requires that nobody except approved entities get to the data (.apk). Thus you *must* trust the device you are delivering the .apk to, or else you have leaked the data and blown the forward locking. For example, a phone running a custom buil

[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread sblantipodi
Thanks for the answer. But I don't understood why a device is approved or not. Is there a possibility that the injected DRM could prevent the app to work on some devices? Thanks. On Nov 19, 5:49 pm, TreKing wrote: > On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, sblantipodi > wrote: > > > What do you mean for

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, sblantipodi wrote: > What do you mean for unapproved devices? > AFAIK, for copy protection Google has some list of devices that are considered "approved" for copy-protected devices to run on. Usually this meant that new devices would block copy-protected apps unti

[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread sblantipodi
no one can tell me here what are the unapproved devices and why they are unapproved? On Nov 19, 3:43 pm, sblantipodi wrote: > Thanks for the answer. What do you mean for unapproved devices? > I know that this isn't the safest way to proceed but since I'm in > business with a shop that use the sam

[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread sblantipodi
Thanks for the answer. What do you mean for unapproved devices? I know that this isn't the safest way to proceed but since I'm in business with a shop that use the same DRM protection, I would know if this will cause compatibility problem on some devices. On Nov 19, 3:32 pm, TreKing wrote: > On

Re: [android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM, sblantipodi wrote: > It seems that the copy protection damage compatibility with android market > and many phones, why? > Among other problems, copy protected apps would not show up on unapproved devices. Regardless, copy protection is pointless and now deprecated

[android-developers] Re: Copy Protection ON and phones compatibility.

2010-11-19 Thread sblantipodi
It seems that the copy protection damage compatibility with android market and many phones, why? On Nov 19, 3:16 pm, sblantipodi wrote: > Hi, > can you tell me please why if I set the Copy Protection ON from my > developer console, > my apps isn't available on many phones like Sony Ericsson X8 Q1