GoogleAndroid Applications now secured with Licensing Service

Android Applications now secured with Licensing Service

Android Licensing Service

Android app developers have from time to time faced sideloading issues and other cases where there has been unauthorized usage of their apps. The Android Developers blog introduces developers to the new application licensing service for the Android Market that should hopefully take care of that. This service will protect the apps from being illicitly used by some end users.

This free licensing service empowers developers with a secure system through which they can control the access to Android Market’s paid apps designed to run on Android 1.5 or later. The company will be including a suite of libraries which can be used during run time by the app to question the Android Market licensing server in order to track the license status of the user. The outcome of this would be the details of whether the user is authorized to use it or not according to the archived sales records.

As it functions real time over the network, the service can offer flexibility to manufacturers when they choose license-enforcement strategies. Additionally it renders a safer approach than what copy protection can provide to secure apps from being misused. The blog further requests application producers to go through the Developer Guide’s Licensing Your Applications section and visit the Android Market Help Center.

The blog elucidates that the licensing service it now available in the market. They intend to replace the existing Android Market copy-protection mechanism with this one by the coming months.

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