Question

Since the Application Licensing documentation has this as a note:

Additionally, as noted above, applications that are in draft mode (in
other words, applicaitons that have been uploaded but have never been
published) will return LICENSED for all users, even if not listed as a
test user. Since the application has never been offered for download,
it is assumed that any users running it must have obtained it from an
authorized channel for testing purposes.

I was assuming that it can, but I don’t see how it’s possible since, to my understanding, apps that has never been published should not be in the Marketplace nor can they be searched for. Or were they referring to something else?

Answer 1

It means you (the developer) may have sent the .apk directly to some people for testing or reviewing purposes.