Hm, I actually can't find it in any of the market TOS, but I specifically remember a clause precluding these kinds of apps. Perhaps I'm mistaken, and the apps ruled out were simply those competing with Google Play (as opposed to any Google product) or perhaps the TOS changed. In any case, I am not aware of any (and suppose there doesn't exist any) documentation of the protocol. I assume that it's easier not to publicly provide it so that it can be changed (and just because it costs more people hours to support a public facing API).
Kris On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Ken <kenk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Friday, September 20, 2013 1:25:08 PM UTC-4, Kristopher Micinski wrote: >> >> There are specific clauses in the TOS for Play (at least) that stipulate >> you can't write apps that could compete with Google apps, under which I >> presume this use would fall. >> > > I haven't seen that in the TOS ( > http://play.google.com/intl/en_us/about/play-terms.html)...what part > exactly do you mean? I searched for "compet" and "replace". > > It'd just be an alternative. People have written back ends in other > languages before. Google's value add is their GAE infrastructure for > scaling. > > -- > 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 > --- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 --- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
