[android-developers] Re: HowTo compile and run the LVL sample app without uploading to Android Market.

Now, May 2013, I always get LVL response NOT_MARKET_MANAGED from my example application which worked fine in June, 2011.

In summary, Now you have to additionally:
1. Declare your test app to Google Play (to get its key).
2. Build a release version containing that key.
3. Upload (but don't publish) a release version.
Therefore, my original title should change to "HowTo get the LVL example to work (note: you do have to upload)"

Cause: Between 2011 and 2013 the Google-generated BASE_64 key changed from account specific to application specific. (I missed the bulletin about the change, but the current requirement is clearly documented multiple times at http://developer.android.com/google/play/licensing/index.html. However, I don't understand why "Table 1." on the subpage .../licensing/setting-up.html still says "Can the Publisher account check license before upload? YES.")

SOLUTION, modify Steps 3. 4. 5. and 6. above as follows:
In Steps 3. and 4. Change "example" in package name and path to something else. apk.-s containing "example" and perhaps other such words may not upload to a Google Play Console.

Replace old Step 5. with: Add LVLsample with whatever new title you like to your Google Play Console. Once you get the "Store listing" page, goto "Services and API's" page for your public key. (LVL uses an asymmetric key encryption scheme, keeping the private keys to itself.) This new app and its key is only for LVLsample testing. Your real application requires another "Add new application" with its own new key. That is, from now on your Console will have an unpublished LVLsample hanging around--useful for continued testing during later development.

Old 6. becomes 6(a).

6(b) Build a draft Release version of the LVLsample (a "-debug.apk" won't upload) containing its key and upload it to Google Play. Wait long enough (a few hours?) for Google to digest your upload.

Also:    Be sure "airplane mode" under "Networks" is off.

With these changes I get all eight test responses as before. The request on my original post stands, "Please offer simplifications, corrections, comments."
Hal Harrison.

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