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Originally Posted by cybmole
expanding this a little, the general conundrum is with any tablet that supports multiple accounts ( a feature of lollipop ?)- and thus supports multiple google account links
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Multiple accounts have been in Android since 4.2.
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is an app licensed to the account, or to the device & have google fully thought it through themselves. Their basic approach seem to be account linked - if I change device I can install any apps previously bought without paying again, and I can have the same paid or app on multiple devices if they all share my google credentials.
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Standard licensing is based on the google account. You can run an app on as many devices and as many users as you want as long as all of them reference the google account used to buy the app. That account does not need to be the "main" account for the user.
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But for the family sharing a tablet setup, we want device level sharing. Microsoft seems to have done it with win 8 OK. I can't speak for apple. but with win 8.1, I can log into their store with a microsoft account , install an app, log into local account b in win 8 and still access the app ( well it worked for netflix so I assume it works for paid apps also )
In true multi user, one would expect an app to store multiple config sets, one per user- can it do that but still only store one licence state ?
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Yes, sort of. An app's config (settings) are stored per android user. As I noted above, licensing is controlled by the google accounts, which are also stored per user. This implies that every account is able to check the license, which is the root of the problem with the hudl 2.