[Request] Add Launchbox Android to Playstore

[HisokaRyodan]

Hey guys,

   I understand the process of installing android, and all of that, however I am running emulators on a work phone that does not allow the toggle of unknown sources, which makes sense. I am running all emulators fine, since they all come from the playstore, but have found all of the front ends are awful, or aty the very least, dont work/scan all systems correctly.

 

Is there anyway you can add a versionto playstore that does nothing until you download the license file and load it into the application? If not I understand, just love launchbox and want to bring it to android to hopefully have a useable frontend. 

 

Thanks!

[neil9000]

1 hour ago, HisokaRyodan said:

Hey guys,

   I understand the process of installing android, and all of that, however I am running emulators on a work phone that does not allow the toggle of unknown sources, which makes sense. I am running all emulators fine, since they all come from the playstore, but have found all of the front ends are awful, or aty the very least, dont work/scan all systems correctly.

 

Is there anyway you can add a versionto playstore that does nothing until you download the license file and load it into the application? If not I understand, just love launchbox and want to bring it to android to hopefully have a useable frontend. 

 

Thanks!

Not gonna happen i'm afraid, we tried that once, its not just the licencing that is the issue, its the whole thing.

1 hour ago, HisokaRyodan said:

, however I am running emulators on a work phone that does not allow the toggle of unknown sources

Never a good idea to mix business and pleasure either, are you "work" bosses aware you have roms you dont own that phone also?

Id use a dedicated device if i was you.

[HisokaRyodan]

1 hour ago, neil9000 said:

Not gonna happen i'm afraid, we tried that once, its not just the licencing that is the issue, its the whole thing.

Never a good idea to mix business and pleasure either, are you "work" bosses aware you have roms you dont own that phone also?

Id use a dedicated device if i was you.

 

Why would you assume I don't own them? I actually have a complete n64 japanese collection, complete wonder swan color collection, (missing 50) dreamcast japanese collection, and have roughly 800-1k Japanese ps1 games and roughly 1000 Japanese ps2 games... all the games I am playing are games I own. I know japanese and learned it specifically to play jrpgs, so playing on a phone and or a computer that has OCR, fast forward and save states to get to japanese input, and the ability not only to record but have instant flashcards created in anki, is way WAY more beneficial then you know. 

 

 

[Jason Carr]

@HisokaRyodan We would love to be able to put the free version on the Play Store. Unfortunately, though, we require a permission that Google Play only grants to File Manager apps. Ultimately, we are a File Manager app, but convincing Google of that is somewhat of a lost cause. Google's policies are trash and extremely misinformed. Unfortunately that means we can't even put the free version of the app on the Play Store. They would probably also not like us using our own income and licensing system (that's probably against another one of their greedy policies).

[HisokaRyodan]

1 hour ago, Jason Carr said:

@HisokaRyodan We would love to be able to put the free version on the Play Store. Unfortunately, though, we require a permission that Google Play only grants to File Manager apps. Ultimately, we are a File Manager app, but convincing Google of that is somewhat of a lost cause. Google's policies are trash and extremely misinformed. Unfortunately that means we can't even put the free version of the app on the Play Store. They would probably also not like us using our own income and licensing system (that's probably against another one of their greedy policies).

Thank you so much for a full explanation! Thought it was something like that, either way it’s all good