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    The Play Store maintains your list of purchases. The dev would have had to build a new APK just for you with ads disabled.

    On top of that, the APK wouldn’t be tied to you, so you could distribute it to others, possibly preventing sales. I’m sure you wouldn’t do that, but others might.

    So yeah, it’s possible. But it’s reasonable for the dev to say no.

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            Your subscription is tied to Google. He would have to tear out the check for a subscription since you refuse to use the typical system.

            Hence, he’d have to produce a build specifically for you without that code. This isn’t rocket science.

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                I am aware that the APK is the same. BUT if he sent you the APK without changes, your purchases would not be activated because you refuse to use Google. In order to restore them, he’d have to manually enable them for you. Use your head.

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                    The paid app binary and the non paid binary are exactly the same. You do not download a new apk when you purchase content in an app. Sync’s “online verification” is through Google Play’ libraries. When you purchase, your device received an entitlement to that specific purchase which allows it to re-verify that purchase without hitting Google’s services each time the app is opened. Since it was a lifetime subscription, this entitlement never had to be renewed.

                    As for it working between phones, either the entitlement is bundled with the app (which I’m not positive of), or it’s entirely possible the version you had was bugged so that it acted as though you had purchased even though you had not in the event these libraries were not available.

                    Either way makes no difference. You need the entitlement to activate the features, not an entirely new APK, which means he’d have to produce a build either with that entitlement (not possible) or without the purchase verification code (since you don’t have the entitlement).