We plan on using a content provider (published by the FREE app) to transfer data between packages - so the import happens automatically the first time the PAID app is launched.
http://code.google.com/android/devel/data/contentproviders.html On Mar 4, 4:41 pm, Raymond Rodgers <[email protected]> wrote: > Avraham Serour wrote: > > have the free app to export the settigns to your server or to user > > file or somewhere > > > have the paid one import it > > > ... > > > profit > > > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:26 PM, [email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected] > > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > From what I learn, a developer cannot convert his FREE app to a PAID > > app. > > I was looking out for some alternative ways to make this happen. > > I have an app with about 10K users. Users have their data stored > > inside the application. > > Lets call the existing FREE version com.myapp > > > I would like to sell myapp for $10. > > > How do I go about it? > > > If I create a new application, it does not accept com.myapp since it > > says I already have an app on the store with the same name. Create a > > new app: com.paidmyapp does not help because how do the existing 10K > > users get their data from FREE version (myapp) to PAID version > > (paidmyapp). > > > Any thoughts? Thanks for your help. > > While that's a simple way of doing it, there has to be a more elegant > way of handling it. > > Raymond --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
