Re: [android-developers] Is it legal to implement APK's silent installation for commercial use?

That's sounds like a good idea, Tim

But I've retrieved the install URL with tokens, but it didn't work, is that right?

On Sunday, October 28, 2012 6:28:24 AM UTC+9, strazzere wrote:

Correct, you basically just need to request the proper auth tokens, then simulate the protocol being used the by Play store / web site.

Tim Strazzere

On Friday, October 26, 2012 7:41:54 PM UTC-7, Kevin TeslaCoil Apps wrote:

I would guess that they simulate a user clicking INSTALL from the web based Play Store. I believe this would be technically doable if they either had the user login or had the users Google password. Then the Play Store takes care of pushing the app to the device and installing it in the background. There would still be the notification icon showing it has been installed and hopefully users are weary of typing their Google password into apps. It's likely that such a setup would violate one or more Play Store policies, but I do not know. I think App Brain did something along these lines at some point?

-Kevin

On Friday, October 26, 2012 4:54:28 AM UTC-5, alex kyo wrote:

Thanks, Mark

One thing I can definitely confirm is that they are not device manufacturer.

Suppose there is a google account(ga) which contains several apps.

My guess is that they might register a stock device with the ga by AccountManager 

and then call the sync api (I don't know exactly what api will be here)

Finally, after the device performed sync process, log out programmatically

the apps will be remained and it looks like silent install.

On Friday, October 26, 2012 4:00:24 PM UTC+9, Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) wrote:

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Kristopher Micinski
<krismi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or their company is actually TMobile...

Oh, true. A device manufacturer can do this stuff without a problem. I
was assuming that this was an SDK app, since this is a list for
developing SDK apps, but that may not have been a valid assumption.

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