[android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-06 Thread tanstaafa
Adam, We have a back office and an API to do exactly what you need. Our solution includes a demo application that will let you define and track 'freebies' to any user. The demo is available as a free up from Android Market. Just search for "Netmobo". On Oct 6, 8:38 am, Warren wrote: > It sure w

[android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-06 Thread Warren
It sure would be great to have an API to give away apps. You could supply the gmail address tied to an account and the application ID and then when that user visited the market they could download the specified app for free as though they had already purchased it. This would be very helpful to a c

Re: [android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-06 Thread Stephen Jungels
About 24 hours after a buyer has purchased the app, their payment will have gone through and you can use the Checkout console to issue a full or partial refund. I have a separate system for distributing my app to beta testers, but I have used this method in a few cases as well. -SJ On Wed, Oct 6

[android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-06 Thread Adam Hammer
Well, the Apks are just content providers, no activities or interactive services (other then the ContentResolver interfaces). So no place for a splash screen in them. I have a ContentProvider that supplies information about resources in the apk file that can be accessed, each package inherits this

[android-developers] Re: Gifting paid market apps

2010-10-05 Thread Chris Stratton
Why don't you just put the giftee's name on a splash screen? (and maybe also somewhere else, not in plaintext) On Oct 5, 9:52 pm, Adam Hammer wrote: > Is there a way to gift a paid app if you are the developer? > > I want to gift VIA the android market. I don't want to give apk's in > the wild,