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My lite version app created in livecode keeps a record of a user's name and score. I would like my full version app to use this same information (user name and score). I was hoping to have googleplay just update (replace) my lite version with the full version. This would keep the user name and score. But googleplay will not allow an app to have the same identifier name (www.mycompany.myapp). So if the lite and full versions have different names they don't share the same user name and score information. The full version needs to have the user input his name again and all the scoring information from the lite version is lost too (not accessible). Is there some way to pass or share user information from a lite version to a full version app. I'm using the specialFolderPath("documents") & "/myapp_LC1/user_info.txt" to store and read the information. - Thanks Joe

I don't think it's possible. What I have seen other apps do is release an "unlocking" app. The presence of that file indicates that the user has paid. The original app checks for that file and if it exists the full feature set is enabled.

What I don't know though is how the main app can check for that file. What you might do instead is implement in-app purchases where the user could unlock features by buying an update.