On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:35 PM, dadical <keyes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey George. > > I have looked at SlideMe and SlideLock. It's great but doesn't fit my > use cases for my apps, nor, I would suspect many others looking for > simple licensing solutions that mesh well with Android Market. > > Permissions are a pain, aren't they? It is what it is, and devs will > have to evaluate that when considering AAL. For anyone who wants to > use credentials for a backend system (which is becoming more and more > common) this is the best possible approach. Until Google gives us a > bit more control over the Android Account API, and finer-grained > interface to the permissions capabilities of Android, there's not much > that can be done to improve on this for this particular approach. > Something to consider: > > - users NEVER give access to their user id or password, they just > grant the app permission to act using their idenity with the market > for validation of purchase > > As for the reverse engineering of the market API, of course Google can > change it. However, they also depend on that API, and have many, many > apps out on different versions of Android that depend on it. I would > expect this to remain relatively stable. Devs that use AAL can > configure their app's policy on what to do if validation fails, > including anything from "lock out" to "nag", so risk to end users can > be controlled. > > Thanks for your feedback and contrasting points with SlideMe's > technologies. >
Did SlideME contrast anything with its own technologies? Looks as though they are just trying to cast some vague doubts on AAL and KeyesLabs, without understanding of what KeyesLabs is doing or the problem they are trying to solve. -- Shane Isbell (Founder of ZappMarket) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/zappstore http://zappmarket.com -- 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
