Re: [android-developers] Re: Knockoff copy of my app on Google Play.

This is the typical story. Actually, you'll see worse stories: people
whose competitors report their app (when it is in fact the original)
and Google shuts down their legitimate app. (Then, they won't get a
reply for ages, their developer account is suspended, all their apps
are gone, poof!)

You should also comment and leave a bad review for the illegitimate
app and contact its developer.

Kris

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:43 PM, jeka <jrozin@gmail.com> wrote:
> I reported the app twice, both times without so much as an acknowledgement
> email, meanwhile, the app is getting downloads...
>
> Here is hoping someone from Google sees this.
>
>
>
> On Monday, January 28, 2013 1:28:49 PM UTC-5, Kristopher Micinski wrote:
>>
>> Morally, it's basically decompiling, you can fiddle with the bytecode
>> too, decompiling is just the next step..
>>
>> As for your second question: this forum isn't monitored by the Google
>> play people. However, you might get lucky and have someone from the
>> dev team forward it along. The best I've heard is people getting
>> responses from Google's "report an app" button.
>>
>> Kris
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:55 PM, jeka <jro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > You don't need to decompile anything to achieve what I'm describing.
>> > Your
>> > APK can have another APK as a "payload" and simply execute its own
>> > activity
>> > before starting the one from another APK. I won't get into details
>> > simply
>> > because I don't want to give anybody the wrong ideas, but it is easy to
>> > do.
>> >
>> > But that is besides the point. The point here is this: now that I know
>> > this
>> > is being done with my app, who, if anybody at Google can take the
>> > knockoff
>> > down? At best, it is stealing from me. At worst, it is planting
>> > Trojans...
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday, January 28, 2013 12:36:14 PM UTC-5, Nobu Games wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I noticed that Proguard is able to produce obfuscated code which makes
>> >> Java Decompiler crash.
>> >> It's a reasonable step to obfuscate any app (also free ones) in order
>> >> to
>> >> make it harder to figure out where to apply these changes or how to
>> >> crack
>> >> them.
>> >>
>> >> More advanced protection steps are described here. To sum it up: on top
>> >> of
>> >> code-obfuscation you need to add hidden self-integrity checks to your
>> >> app
>> >> that try to validate the package signature.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Monday, January 28, 2013 11:27:00 AM UTC-6, Johan Appelgren wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Just decompile, add ad activity, change manifest and recompile.
>> >>> Haven't
>> >>> tried but can probably be automated for most apps.
>> >
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