Why I can't purchase my own application on the Android market ?

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Why I can't purchase my own application on the Android market ?

Hi all,

I just uploaded my application in the market, but I'm not able to purchase it (it's a pay app).

I saw here that it seems to be made by design, but then why the error message is Server Error try again ?

Is there a way to bypass that ?

Thanks in advance

+6 A:

Do you have an Android Developer Phone? If so, you can't purchase your own app by design. Since ADPs are unlocked, there's nothing preventing an ADP from easily pirating any app it downloads, so they are purposely cut off from downloading paid apps.

Daniel Lew 2010-02-02 16:52:34

Actually I think they changed it so that it's just apps that have the copyright protection enabled that are blocked on the ADP phones. Which means the ADP would be blocked from free or paid apps that have copyright protection enabled, but could download paid apps if the copyright protection wasn't enabled. However, back to the original question, you can't download your own paid app, Google Checkout blocks it on any phone, not just the ADP.

mbaird 2010-02-02 17:24:10

+7 A:

'Please note that it is against Google Checkout's policies to purchase your own application. You will receive an error message when you try to purchase your own application.'

Doesn't look like it. Why are you wanting to buy your own app?

disretrospect 2010-02-02 16:54:25

Probably to vote/comment on it.

fiXedd 2010-02-02 17:08:30

just to test if it works !

kosokund 2010-02-02 17:34:53

obvious, but if you really want to test it, connect your phone to your development computer, open your app project and run it :)

Dullahx 2010-02-02 18:25:30

oooh ? didn't know that :-P !! I work in IT long enough to know that everything have to be tested, even if I upload an APK that works properly when it's manually installed in my handset, it's not useless to test the market version.

kosokund 2010-02-03 10:00:36

If you want to install the apk file rather than running an app from the dev environment. Plug your phone into the computer, open a terminal and type 'adb install root_to_apk/yourapp.apk'

disretrospect 2010-02-03 13:16:48

it was a joke... of course I know that

kosokund 2010-02-03 14:19:06

This also means that you have to reload it onto your phone everytime the application is updated rather than just doing it via the market :(

stealthcopter 2010-05-01 14:22:51

+1 A:

Yeah, I ran into the same problem. I uninstalled the APK from my phone so that I could download it from the market. It works fine for my free apps but not my paid apps. I guess there is no need for QA and the customer to use the same process lol

Malachi 2010-07-20 00:22:39

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