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I want to prevent my app from copying from device, ie that would be impossible to pull apk from file system. Any ideas?

Jonno_FTW
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mindw0rk
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    why would you want to do so? See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8143688/android-app-licensing-copy-protection or http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10759187/android-verify-that-apk-is-a-paid-copy-avoid-piracy-of-app for related questions – Philipp Feb 14 '14 at 08:35
  • LVL don't prevent from copying, as far as I know. I have a special app, i can't load this to Play Market and use LVL. – mindw0rk Feb 14 '14 at 08:45
  • still the question is why you want to do it and what that "special app" is. Otherwise it's hard to give any advice. If someone has the apk, you certainly can't prevent from copying the apk. After all, it's just a file... – Philipp Feb 14 '14 at 08:57
  • This application will be use in my company only, it has some secret information. I haven't any ideas how to prevent this file – mindw0rk Feb 14 '14 at 09:10
  • so maybe you are not looking for a way to prevent copying but rather to store secret information inside an app? Maybe you can have that secret information on a company server and users need to log in with their company accounts? – Philipp Feb 14 '14 at 09:25

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It is not possible. Users with their phones rooted will have the access to your app and they can do what they want with it - you must store your secret data on external servers and use other ways to access it - i.e. require user to log in.

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