An inter-store transaction mechanism to distribute mobile applications

Android is one of the popular OSs and application platforms for mobile devices. There are numerous appstores in the world, including Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android. These appstores with DRM-protection and In-App Purchasing APIs provide various business models to their app developers. Ho...

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Published in2012 IEEE Globecom Workshops pp. 1016 - 1020
Main Authors Chen-Yuan Chuang, Hsu-Sheng Chang, Yuh-Jer Hung
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.12.2012
Subjects
Electronic publishing
Google
Licenses
Mobile communication
Servers
Smart phones
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Summary:Android is one of the popular OSs and application platforms for mobile devices. There are numerous appstores in the world, including Google Play and Amazon Appstore for Android. These appstores with DRM-protection and In-App Purchasing APIs provide various business models to their app developers. However, the APIs and implementations are very different among the appstores. Therefore, accommodating the mobile apps to other appstores may require extra maintenance and porting overheads. This paper proposes a mechanism that supports inter-store transactions to distribute appstore-dependent apps by slightly modifying the appstore client and service logic. Consequently, the app developers can publish their DRM-protected apps and purchasable items in the apps at once to wide markets without rewriting the programs.
ISBN:9781467349420
1467349429
ISSN:2166-0077
2166-0077
DOI:10.1109/GLOCOMW.2012.6477716