[android-developers] Screebl 3.0 Beta Test

Looking for some brave souls to test a ground-up rewrite of Screebl. The engine is mostly there, but things aren't pretty yet. If you're interested, I've published to the market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keyes.screebl.beta. Still wish Google provided a more integrated beta pr

[android-developers] Re: "Just in" section

I blogged about this topic a few days ago, and then saw this thread. I recently released a new project that I've been dinking around with for a few months while learning something about gaming, and was surprised to see how much marketing an app has changed since the last

[android-developers] Help: BOOT_COMPLETED has started acting weird in 2.3+

I'm looking for ideas on this one, as I've been unable to reproduce no matter how hard I try in any of my local evironements. As users are getting upgraded to 2.3+, a small but significant number are reporting that my app (Screebl) is failing to start on phone reboot. The app has had a recei

[android-developers] Re: Scaling text up to be relative to screen pixels

Struggling with the same thing. Anyone find answers besides "just make lots and lots of layouts based on resolution"? On May 26, 9:14 pm, Robert Green wrote: > Not possible, eh? > > On May 26, 1:03 pm, Robert Green wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm a long time Android developer (Been here since pre

[android-developers] Re: Bluetooth is driving me nuts -- Galaxy tab lockups and pairing stupidity

adhoc peer-to-peer > communications. > > On May 27, 9:58 am, keyeslabs wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm trying to use bluetooth SPP to establish a socket connection > > between two Android devices.  There are a few things that are really > > driving

[android-developers] Bluetooth is driving me nuts -- Galaxy tab lockups and pairing stupidity

I'm trying to use bluetooth SPP to establish a socket connection between two Android devices. There are a few things that are really driving me crazy in this effort. First, the Galaxy Tab seems to just be broken when it comes to SPP. I can establish the connection just fine, but after a few minu

[android-developers] Soft Home Button Makes Games Suck on Android

My kids and I love playing games on our various iOS and Android tablets. One thing that bothers everyone though is the full-screen experience when dealing with soft or "semi-soft" keys on Android. I'm getting ready to deal with this issue myself in my own application development, so I though I'd

[android-developers] Help with Hacking the State of the Union

Over the past few days I've hacked together an experiment that targets using an app to augment live television. I've described it here: http://keyeslabs.com/joomla/blogs/i-think-im-becoming-an-android/421-hacking-the-state-of-the-union It's interesting in that it takes advantage of the Android p

[android-developers] Re: Anybody seen a slowdown in sales?

Has anyone seen resolution of this? My sales have decreased, most likely due to a dramatic drop in rankings (by about 25 slots). Sudden and dramatic would be how I would characterize the change. Seems closely correlated with the new market app. Interestingly, my active installs has been climbin

[android-developers] Did Market Ranking Change?

I know, I know. No one can actually believe that their app would drop in the rankings. I've seen these threads before. I'm not complaining, just curious. My app has held fairly stable in the Tools category over the last year, but over the course of the last few days has dropped by 25 slots (fro

[android-developers] Re: Off market sales and LVL

Solving this very problem is going to be really important for Android Devs. With multiple viable markets, each with their own DRM solutions, managing the builds for a smallish Android app is getting a bit ridiculous. There's room for innovation here in the form of a layer above all of the differe

[android-developers] Google TV Remote Control App

Has anyone put a packet sniffer on the remote control app provided for Android devices to interact with Google TV? I'm curious about what the protocol is. I would guess that it's ProtoBuf, or possibly XBMC (wouldn't that be nice?)... Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

o the > unwitting customer/phone user? It would also be of general interest to > know what the respective download numbers for your 'Lite' version are, > over the same period of time? (Note: I really have no knowledge of > your app - so these are just very general questions/pond

[android-developers] Re: Piracy Breakdown by Country

cold hard data to back it up. Your results > found that the largest piracy rates actually occurred in countries > where users COULD buy apps ! I guess USA is just a bunch of cheap > *sses :) > > -niko > > On Aug 26, 3:22 pm, keyeslabs wrote: > > > Recently did a

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

Had time to take a look at this raw data. You can see results here if you're interested. Some things surprised me: http://bit.ly/bSaoBe. On Aug 25, 1:46 pm, keyeslabs wrote: > > Um there is a culture of piracy *everywhere*. :} > > > If you are saying that because you t

[android-developers] Piracy Breakdown by Country

Recently did an analysis of piracy rates by country for my app. Found some very interesting tidbits that I think may be of interest to members of this group: http://bit.ly/bSaoBe Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To po

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

an just cp /data/app/foo.apk... Dave On Aug 25, 1:50 pm, Michael MacDonald wrote: > Encrypting the .apk is like forward-locking; it is easily defeated on > rooted phones. > > On 08/25/10 13:33, keyeslabs wrote: > > > > > That's not what I was picturing.  Isn't there

[android-developers] Re: Licensing server, app cracked.

I'm really impatient to see this new > doc. > > To you keyeslabs, I'm actually using netbeans, > what is the code you posted? An addition to build.xml for eclipse or > Android SDK project? > > On Aug 25, 4:27 am, keyeslabs wrote: > > > If you can't wait,

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

l) location information, and I think that I could extract that same information from Google Checkout records. I smell a weekend going up in smoke... :) Dave On Aug 25, 1:04 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:13 AM, keyeslabs wrote: > > Again, my contention is that

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

x27;m hoping LVL can grow into is a system that packages license verification in a way that is really really hard to remove. It seems like we've got half of that equation nicely under way with LVL in its current form. Dave On Aug 25, 1:04 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

the platform matters to me. I want you to succeed just as much as I'm assuming you want developers to succeed. On Aug 25, 1:05 pm, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:25 AM, keyeslabs wrote: > > I don't completely buy the assertion that PR wasn't part o

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

> All copy protection systems have two parts - something they bind to, > and the obfuscation that makes it harder to rip that binding out. This is basically correct, if you assume that things like encryption are bundled under the umbrella of obfuscation. > So there are obviously two ways copy pro

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

tting ourselves up for the perception of failure. And, here we are... On Aug 25, 3:40 am, Dianne Hackborn wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:20 PM, keyeslabs wrote: > > LVL is flawed in the same ways that AAL (and other similar approaches) > > is flawed.  Google could do better,

[android-developers] Re: Licensing server, app cracked.

If you can't wait, here's something to get you started that worked for me. It's what I used to obfuscate AAL, which was a library not an Android App, and thus a bit simpler. You'll need to adjust what you "keep" (e.g., don't obfuscate) so that you don't shred classes that are referenced by your m

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

cated your code is. >From a technical standpoint, LVL will help to some degree, but I've got to think that in terms of P.R., Google did themselves more harm than good here. Dave On Jul 31, 5:21 pm, keyeslabs wrote: > Speaking as someone who has traveled this road before with my own >

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Licensing: Now Available!

Speaking as someone who has traveled this road before with my own implementation of basically the same approach, obfuscation will be critical. With AAL, it took about three days for someone to crack the app. The process looks something like this: decompile the apk using a freely available open s

[android-developers] Re: Newer Market Comments Disappearing?

There could be for a number of reasons, most likely being that the user either changed or deleted their comment. The market only records one comment per user per app. The layered market services scan the market via its private API and maintain their own cache of the comments. Dave On Jun 18, 5

[android-developers] Re: I've found a way to stop piracy of my apps

ng the code into the project > because we don't want to create fork your code base just to support > us. > > What do you think? > > Al. > > On Jun 17, 9:31 pm, keyeslabs wrote: > > > Biggest issues that I've seen for my own apps (and those other brave

[android-developers] Re: I've found a way to stop piracy of my apps

would open up distribution to markets that Google doesn't currently serve. Dave On Jun 17, 3:39 pm, String wrote: > On Jun 17, 8:05 pm, keyeslabs wrote: > > >AALhas now been open-sourced.  Find details here:  http://bit.ly/coz0yB. > > Cool. Thanks for sharing it. > &

[android-developers] Re: I've found a way to stop piracy of my apps

AAL has now been open-sourced. Find details here: http://bit.ly/coz0yB. On May 10, 4:24 pm, niko20 wrote: > Well I will say one thing, if it was opened up, that would allow each > dev to make small code changes, so it would never be cookie cutter > then...however, I am not against that you are

[android-developers] Re: Service gets killed (due to activity ?)

If you have a very good reason for doing so (one that you're willing to defend to users and the likes of Mark) then you can force the service to have the same priority as an activity use setForeground. The caveat is that you must keep a notification visible for your service. On Jun 10, 11:00 am, T