Adobe InMarket experience
Today I published my Resicon application to Adobe InMarket. At the moment Adobe InMarket is just a front end for online application stores like Adobe Marketplace or Intel AppUp. It’s goal is to make distribution and monetization of AIR based applications as simple as possible. Adobe is also working to integrate it with other online application stores as well.
The process of publishing my application was really straightforward. The first thing I had to do was to sign up to the InMarket service with my Adobe ID. Next I applied for the free code signing certificate (this is a really great promotional offer from Adobe because you get a trusted certificate completely for free). To get myself validated I had to fill in a form and have it faxed to the US phone number with my signature on it and a scan of my personal ID. I know it can be tricky to find the fax machine these days, but hey it is worth the effort 
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After I got the certificate I was ready to do some additional steps on my application side. It only required me to copy and paste few lines of code that enable the LicenseManager API that comes with the InMarket SDK and its licensing.swc. In addition to the distribution and licensing, InMarket also provides the functionality for application updates. To enable it I only had to create a config folder with an updateConfig.xml file in my application directory structure. The updateConfig.xml is exactly the same file as you would use for standard AIR Update Framework.
Once all of the above steps were done I was ready to compile and sign my application. Next using InMarket portal I uploaded my *.air file and provided additional information like: an application description, screenshots, a and 495×250 px promotional image that will be displayed in the Adobe Marketplace.
After that done I was able to publish Resicon targeting both Adobe Markeplace and Intel AppUp stores with just a single click from a single place!
In my case the application is free but still I find it worth publishing it via InMarket since hopefully I will get wider distribution, place for hosting my application binaries and also nice reports with downloads stats etc. Those of you that will publish paid applications you can also see reports with numbers of: Trails, Purchases, Revenue, Activations and Trial to Purchase Histogram.
Really great resource with more in-depth information about InMarket is this wiki. You can also find links to the InMarket video tutorials on this page.
