Re: [android-developers] Application temporarily free

Yeah, thanks, its 99 cents already. Now i got it why i can't do what i want, and sounds good to me and it makes sense.

Thanks.

On Friday, May 25, 2012 11:31:45 PM UTC-7, Zsolt Vasvari wrote:

What you want cannot be achieved for a very good reason:  if you offered a paid app for free then made it paid again, it would skew your download count and let you obtain a higher ranking in the store.  After all, you probably get much more downloads for a free app then a paid one.  The best you can do it is make it the cheapest price you are allowed in the market.  (99 cents?)

On Saturday, May 26, 2012 12:17:58 PM UTC+8, Hilario Perez Corona wrote:

I don't understand how in-app purchasing will solve the problem...?

I want the user to be able to get the full-complete-unlimited version during a time period, so the user that downloads the app during that time frame can keep the full-complete-unlimited version forever...

Can that be achieved with in-app purchasing? can you give me a hint?

On Friday, May 25, 2012 8:58:10 PM UTC-7, MagouyaWare wrote:

Use in-app purchasing...

On May 25, 2012 9:48 PM, "Hilario Perez Corona" <hpcorona@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm gonna explain what i have:

1. A free Lite version of my application

2. A full paid version of my application (.99 USD)

Both applications have different package names.

Now, what i want to do, is publish my full paid application for free for a limited time only.

I've been reading a lot for 2 days now, and i don't find any solution that looks nice to me, and i really don't understand why is there the limitation of not being able to change from free to paid an application. Whichever technical issue should be solved. (well, that's my point of view).

The solution i've came up is to create a new application with a new package name appending "promo" at the end, with the full version inside, and publish/unpublish it as required... The problem that i see is that i won't be able to take advantage of the ratings, downloads, and the users won't be able to upgrade until a new "promotion" kicks in...

So far, is the best option i've came up with... Any ideas or suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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