[Q] Help for an App Developer

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Hello XDA'rs,

I work for the developer Loud Crow Interactive Inc. and we build book apps for kids.

We've recently launched into the Android Market and are having trouble with our app being installed on rooted nook colors. The issues appear to be on the licensing side.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what this could be? Also, what does a rooted nook register as (device) on the Android Market place,

Thanks in advance,

Tom

What's the error, logcat ?, what's the app?
dude u gotta give some info if need a solution.
There could be a million things that could cause problems like that.

Originally Posted by x2002dude

Hello XDA'rs,

I work for the developer Loud Crow Interactive Inc. and we build book apps for kids.

We've recently launched into the Android Market and are having trouble with our app being installed on rooted nook colors. The issues appear to be on the licensing side.

Does anyone have any thoughts on what this could be? Also, what does a rooted nook register as (device) on the Android Market place,

Thanks in advance,

Tom

We are all waiting for an answer. I have an outstanding request in with Google that I have had to update several times as they seem to be dancing around the question. When and if I hear I will post a response.

The App is "The Going to Bed Book" or "PopOut! The Tale of Peter Rabbit" - Our users are getting a "Invalid License" error. We're going to root one of our nooks soon to do some testing, but until then we were thinking we might be able to get something from the forums. Both users who reported the issue were running CM7, which I also run on my HTC IS, and runs our apps fine. Thus we're thinking it could have something to do with the device ID running against the licenses?

As we set up restrictions by device, We were curious what a rooted NC running CM7 would show as in terms of a device on the Android Market place?

Thanks for the help guys, and thanks for the patience. I'm not the actual Android developer on the team. He's out of the office for the week,

Cheers,

Tom

I think he means he is having trouble getting the application to install from the market in general. I looked up the applications and the NC was not a supported device.

I don't want to pay the money to download it to my phone and sideload it (I'm at work anyways). I don't know much about applications and how devices are determined to be compatible other than maybe their permissions. However, these applications (there are two on the market), don't require anything other than SD access.

As we set up restrictions by device....

That might be part of some of this. I was not aware developers were setting restrictions by device. Is this new?

model name -NookColor
product name -encore
And there is really no way to find out the problem, without looking at the logcat.

Originally Posted by patruns

That might be part of some of this. I was not aware developers were setting restrictions by device. Is this new?

No, this feature is available to every developer since a long time. but there are 600 or so devices so not a lot of people bother with it.

Originally Posted by rigy73

model name -NookColor
product name -encore
And there is really no way to find out the problem, without looking at the logcat.

Actually, questions to the market run against your account and the email info and log the following device details:

> IIILanguage: en
> IssueType: market_website
> Language: en
> android_app_name: Facebook
> android_os: gingerbread
> android_os_other:
> device_manufacturer: other
> device_manufacturer_other: Barnes & Noble
> hidden_country: US
> website_issue_select: grayed_device

device_manufacturer= bn
If u want to know more take a look at build.prop, people have uploaded it in netflix thread, which reminds me that a lot of users usually change their device and fake it to run different apps.