[android-developers] Re: "Proguard, Android, and the Licensing Server", or...

I'm glad we can finally talk about this.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/09/more-countries-more-sellers-more-buyers.html

Cheers,
Dan
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Dan Galpin
Developer Advocate
Google, Inc.
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If you actually want answers to your questions, it's far better to
post them here, because the collective brain of this forum far exceeds
my own.
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On Sep 24, 12:54 am, gjs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd love to be in a position of being concerned about piracy, LVL,
> Progard & obfuscated stack traces.
>
> But alas I'm still one of the many dev's situated in a region
> (Australia) were I can buy apps from the Android Market but not
> publish a paid app.
>
> This is a big ongoing disincentive and leaves me to just publish free
> apps for kudos alone.
>
> Regards
>
> Plugs his free app anyway -
>
> Imageotag is a precision field camera app for Android V1.5+ devices.
> Imageotag snaps 16:9 geo-tagged images, embedding GPS & NET location,
> accelerometer, bearing, compass, date, light lux, magnetic field,
> pitch, proximity, roll, speed, temperature & time data.
> Imageotag creates Google Earth Tours from GPS image sequences.
>
> http://www.imageotag.com
>
> On Sep 24, 5:04 pm, Indicator Veritatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Google has too long a history of stonewalling and foot dragging. You
> > NEED that kind of 'motivation' -- unless you finally learn to take
> > responsibility for committing to fix your bugs without such unpleasant
> > prodding.
>
> > When, for example, are you going to fix AAC+ support in StageFright?
> > When will you fix 5211? It has been open since Dec 4, 2009! And what
> > about 2207? It has been open for longer, since March 2009. And it is
> > much more serious. You are losing customers because of this bug, yet
> > you do nothing.
>
> > Finally, would you consider the previous poster's proposal of "running
> > for the hills" more motivating? Which would you rather have?
> > Developers abandoning the Android platform because of the poor
> > prognosis for Proguard, or developers who stick with the platform but
> > loudly call for badly needed change?
>
> > On Sep 23, 9:34 pm, Dianne Hackborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Indicator Veritatis <[EMAIL 
> > > PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
> > > > But rather than run for the hills, we should pepper Google with
> > > > uncomplimentary speculations concerning their motives for this "turd
> > > > layering" until they 'fess up and give us a release date for a version
> > > > of ADT that will allow us to include Proguard in an Eclipse build
> > > > WITHOUT these problems.
>
> > > You sure know how to motivate people.
>
> > > --
> > > Dianne Hackborn
> > > Android framework engineer
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> > > Note: please don't send private questions to me, as I don't have time to
> > > provide private support, and so won't reply to such e-mails.  All such
> > > questions should be posted on public forums, where I and others can see 
> > > and
> > > answer them.

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