Android app copy protection and data files

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Published on 2010-02-20T02:34:48Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 17:23 UTC
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I'm going to rephrase this question. As it turns out the original answer wasn't definitive and problems were found.

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In my app, I access my sqlite database at the following hard-coded location in my code:

/data/data/com.mydomain.appname/databases/database.db

If I turn ON copy protection in the Market Place, will my app still have access to this location? Or will I have to change it to something like: */data-private/*data/com.mydomain.appname/databases/database.db (or something like this)

Since I have a Dev phone only, I have no way of testing to see if my app still functions normally after turning on copy protection.

Thank you!

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