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Now We’re Talking – Google’s Latest Follow-up To The License Verification Fiasco Showcases 4 Methods To Make Pirates’ Jobs Much Harder

Posted by Justin Case in Apps/Games, Dev, News

Update: Tim Bray responded in our comments letting us know Trevor Johns, a hands-on guy in the Android back-rooms, was the author of the post.

After we blew the faults behind Google’s License Verification Library out of the water last week, Google’s Tim Bray promised us some tips for protecting our applications against piracy, and in the latest post at Google’s official Android blog he delivered them. Tim’s article is loaded with easy to follow sample code, and advice that just makes sense. Mr. Bray covers several protection methods including:

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26
Aug
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Android Piracy By Country

Posted by Justin Case in Apps/Games, Dev

We received an email from David Keyes at KeyesLabs today, with a detailed analysis of piracy in various countries. For those that don’t know, David is the author of the battery saving app Screebl, and the open source licensing library AAL. A true pioneer in Android app copy protection.

According to David’s data, the often used excuse of "Paid apps are not available in my country" is at least partly bogus. He has customers from countries such as Nigeria, Kuwait, and the Ukraine who have found ways of purchasing apps through the Android Market,…

26
Aug
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Facebook For Android App Dev Hates Android, iOS, Kittens

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Apps/Games, Dev, Mods

Joe Hewitt, the man behind Facebook Mobile for both the iPhone and Android, hates Android. And the iPhone. And judging by his twitter feed, he also hates people, kittens, unicorns, and the Salvation Army. Just kidding – but as Chris says, he’s definitely a "negative nancy." (Yea, we’re going for the high-brow stuff today).

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Ouch. This is the same guy who left Facebook’s iPhone dev team because of Apple’s tyranny. I’m not a programmer, but I can’t imagine any system is perfect to code for, and frankly I haven’t heard any other devs complain…

25
Aug
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Mark DeLoura Leaves Post As Google’s Game Developer Advocate

Posted by Andrew Huff in Dev, Games, News

Mark DeLoura, who was hired by Google about 5 months ago to fill the much-needed position of Games Developer Advocate, just announced he has left the company.  This marks the second big name to leave Google’s gaming department (Games at Google) this summer.

The reason for Mark’s departure from Google? It wasn’t a perfect fit for him – or at least that his story and he’s sticking to it! In the official announcement on his blog, Mark wrote:

"I enjoyed working with many of the people there, but it was not the perfect fit for me."

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24
Aug
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Response To A Response: More On Google’s Android Licensing Service

Posted by Justin Case in Dev, Editorials, Mods

Today I awoke to see a response from Tim Bray on the Android Developer’s Blog regarding my previous article on circumventing the Android License Verification Library, and I almost completely agree with him. The License Verification Library is a very good start – above and beyond what, if anything, Google owes developers. Copy protection is and should be the responsibility of the developer. Google has given us a great tool, provided thorough documentation, and even open sourced the project.

However, what I don’t agree with in Mr. Bray’s post was his calling…

24
Aug
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When It Comes To Ads, Android Users Are 80% More Valuable Than iPhone Users

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Applications, Apps/Games, Dev, Games, News

Dan Ruby, Research Director for ad firm Chitika, just pinged us to share his latest Android research findings. The research compared the Apple and Google mobile platforms to determine which is more profitable for advertising, and the answer is overwhelmingly Android. When we say overwhelmingly, we mean by 80%:

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As usual, this is based on Chitika’s ad network – so while the numbers are likely pretty accurate, they’re not necessarily official.

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All of the studied platforms have an equal pay-out rate, but Android users have a significantly higher ad click…

23
Aug
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[EXCLUSIVE] Report: [UPDATED] Google’s Android Market License Verification Easily Circumvented, Will Not Stop Pirates

Posted by Justin Case in Dev, Mods, Videos
Last Updated: August 24th, 2010

[Update: 8/24/10 @ 7:45 PM EST by Aaron] Tim Bray responded to Justin’s article, but seems to have misunderstood the goal. Thus, Justin has written a follow-up article here.

Preface

This article was not written to teach people how to pirate or ridicule Google’s Android License Verification Library (LVL) that handles communication with Google’s Android Market Licensing Service.

I am very much against piracy, and very much pro-Google. I have spent more time researching copy protection for my applications than development of the applications themselves.

I would like to thank:

  • the author of

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16
Aug
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Adobe Android Summit 2010: "One Web. Any Device."

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Dev, Google TV, News, Off-Topic

Yesterday, we spent the day at Adobe HQ for their Adobe for Android Summit. We heard from Anup Murarka of the Mobile and Devices team, Paul Betlem for Flash, Aaron Filner for AIR, and N.J. on Flash platform tools.

Anub started off with some numbers:

  • 85 of Alexa Top 100 sites use Flash
  • 70% of web games use Flash
  • 70% of all video on the web is Flash
  • 98% of internet connected PCs have Flash player worldwide
  • 95% of internet connected PCs worldwide have installed Flash Player 10
  • 90% of top

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13
Aug
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Android Focused Adobe Summit This Monday, August 16 – AndroidPolice Will Be There. Submit Your Questions And We’ll Get Them Answered

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Dev, News

We’re making the trek out to San Francisco to attend Adobe’s Android Summit on Monday, August 16, 2010. The schedule looks to be chock full of events with a total of 8 presentations on topics such as:

  • Adobe AIR for Android
  • Flash for Android
  • Gaming on Android
  • Google TV

They’ve also allotted nearly 3 hours of time for Q&A and discussion, so if you want your questions answered by Adobe folks directly in charge of driving the products, drop us a line and let us know what you want to hear about. Feel free to…

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