I recently created an Adobe Air APP for PC that was an mp3 player. I want people to use my APP for many reasons. Then placed it on my website for download. SADLY Someone shared it on facebook and said "If you want just the MP3s and not the APP just unzip the adobe air program and you can listen to them in a separate player."
I was very bummed to hear this news. I have adds and donations buttons etc... that one huge the point of creating the app. Anyway my question:
IS THERE A WAY TO PREVENT AN ADOBE AIR APP FROM BEING UNZIPPED? I need to project the images, mp3s etc.
I know for a PC you can put it in an .EXE. That should work right? But what about a MAC. Is there a way to prevent the folder from being unzipped?
If they want to hack it, they will hack it. Something that you could do, which will at least prevent the most basic hacks, is to encrypt you mp3 file. You can then load it into a ByteArray and decrypt it within your application, then play it from memory. However, this is not a guarantee that someone will not be able to reverse engineer your code, figure out your encryption password/algorithm and steal your data.