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Michel
Level 3.0: Honeycomb
2 days ago

Using paid apps in corporate environments

Hi all,

 

I'm just wandering about using paid apps on work devices and wanted to know how others here are working with paid apps. 

 

Another brand I shall not name makes it possible to purchase apps via a portal and then deploy those apps to your end users. But Google / Managed Google play does not offer such a solution. It makes it difficult to deploy paid apps. 

 

While most apps offer license options outside the playstore, not all of them do. How do people on the community deploy paid apps that need to be purchased through the playstore?

 

As said before, just wandering what solutions people use to better advise our customers in such cases. I don't get this question a lot, but every few weeks it pops up somewhere (mainly because we also provide services on the dark side hardware). 

 

I'm aware that this has been mentioned a few years ago on this community, but just seeing if this have evolved. Distributing Paid Apps | Android Enterprise Customer Community - 653

 

Thanks!

 

Michel

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  • Moombas's avatar
    Moombas
    Level 4.1: Jelly Bean
    2 days ago

    Hi Michael,

     

    i guess we had 2 possibilities yet in the past:

    1. App developer provides a license key being provided via managed app config to the app. The app contacts a license server of them to validate and count it, if not valid, not able to contact the license server or count exceeded, it does not work.
    2. App just provided by the developer as an apk (not available through play store), so you only get the app when paid for (maybe also combined with a license key to be provided to the app via managed app config).