before start telling any thing friends i have already searched for my required concept but did not get any useful thing. So We have server where developer can upload his app(iPhone or android) and can run its app download increase campaign. So important is that developer can also be able to watch like how much app downloads provided by any campaign, so how can i do that ?
what will be the development conceptual view for such tracking SDK ?
what if developer already integrated more than one different advertising servers campaigns SDK's ?
How we can decide due to which advertising server any developer app download happen due to us or some one else campaign ?
Please share any of your suggestions, advance thanks for any kind of help :)
Related
This is an information question rather than a technical question. I have an app in Google Market. I need to know stracktrace of errors happens in other phones.
I have investigated but I have not seen anything about it. Does anyone know if Google offers some service to look at the errors that your application is giving in the market and thus to be able to reproduce it?
Thanks in advance!
Well google offers one really powerful tool "Firebase" it provides great analytics and crash reporting. In addition to analytics and crashes it provides others utilities like Cloud-Testing, Push Notifications and many others.
Other popular solution is Crashlytics offered by twitter.
Open your app at the developer console and select "disruptions and ANR". Here you can select on of disruptions you have, then you can see error stack trace!
Or you can use appmetrica from yandex. Link to yandex.metrica It's very simple to integrate yandex.metrica to your app and get all data about crashes and statistic (country, city, android version and so on).
Link to console
Today and I don't know how (And I actually I don't care) my AdMob account has been suspended for a month, it was a long email to share, but somehow I felt like I'm a thug or criminal who want to steal their money (Which was less than a dollar as my app just got published a couple of days ago), perhaps there was a mistake from my side (The only thing comes in my mind that I may forgot to disable the live Ads while testing my code today as a result of publishing an update that fixes a bug).
Anyway, they will not serve me any Ads for a month, and as there was no even a warning and no appealing, I'm considering to use Amazon Ads in my app.
My question is,
1- Is it easy to implement an Amazon ad banner in my code?
2- Do I have to publish my application on Amazon App Store too?
3- Is there a step by step guide to implement Amazon ad in my code?
Thank you :)
1- Is it easy to implement an Amazon ad banner in my code?
Totally depends on your expertise level. But, even if you are moderately comfortable with android development and have worked on integration with other ad networks it should not be hard at all.
2- Do I have to publish my application on Amazon App Store too?
No, but it is recommended to do so. What the harm in having an additional distribution channel? It will only do you good by bringing in more downloads.
The getting started page clearly states this: Submit your app to the Amazon Appstore, Google Play, **or** another app distribution framework. Hence publishing on Amazon is not a mandate.
You will have to sign the MOBILE AD NETWORK PUBLISHER AGREEMENT
3- Is there a step by step guide to implement Amazon ad in my code?
Yes, refer the official documentation here
These FAQs will help you better understand each of the points you've put in your question.
And why only amazon as an alternative? You have a whole lot of other options.
I was taking over someone else's android project and as such, asked the developer who was working on the project previously to transfer the app.
I found numerous resources on how to initiate the transfer including:
Transfer existing Android app to another developer account?
And the page on Google developer help dedicated to app transfers.
I have given the previous developer all the information required including the transaction ID, and it seems that the process has gone smoothly, he forwarded me this email:
Your transfer is complete!
Thanks for providing the necessary info for your application transfer.
Thanks for supporting Google Play!
Regards,
*****
Google Play Developer Support
So naturally, I wanted to push an update to the application, but it is nowhere to be seen in the developer console. Furthermore, could not find any info about the receiving end of app transfer on either Google play help, Stack Overflow or elsewhere.
Upon trying to find a contact point for this issue, I found myself lost, Google developer help offers only very specific topics and is more like an automated service than anything, even found this open letter:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/02/05/open-letter-please-help-yourself-to-helping-yourself-why-google-needs-to-rethink-the-concept-of-developer-support/
Have anyone experienced anything similar?
Thanks in advance
Turns out it was a problem on Google's side as Niek Haarman suggested.
If anyone faces something similar, this is what I did to contact Google:
I went to https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/ and clicked Contact Us.
As app transfer does not offer email option, I went for
Publishing apps on Google Play > Published app isn't showing on Google Play
And described the issue.
Google contacted me the same day completing the transfer
As a developer, sometimes we get comments about our apps in the Android market. I hate being unable to find a way to respond back to my customers. Is there a way to reply back to the comments in the Android market?
If yes, Google should really make more obvious to us developers!
Sounds like Google has now given the ability for some developers to begin adding responses to comments within Google Play. Unfortunately, it is only to Google's "Top Developers"; hopefully, the ability will be extended to all developers soon. Read more here.
Here is the original Google link.
No
Update:
Yes, please check Jon's and other's answer.
Below is the outdated answer but you can still use some of the ideas.
There is no such function, an alternative way to do that would be adding a feedback function directly in the app and send the message via email or HTTP post back to the developer.
While implementing the feedback system, consider a thread-like conversation with a user if your project is big enough.
You can even use a webview to avoid extra coding in the app and set the webview to a comment page.
this is no longer impossible .
according to many articles, google has allowed ALL developers to reply to users' comments (ratings) .
example :
http://www.droid-life.com/2013/01/09/google-adds-ability-for-all-developers-to-reply-to-comments-in-play-store/
however , i've checked it today , and i can't find out how to do it . i've searched on both the play store website and the developer console website .
can anyone find how to reply to users' comments ?
It looks like this is in the pipeline, being deployed to some developers as of the time of posting: Google Play will allow Android Developers to reply to customer feedback.
Edit 16 Apr 2013: I can now reply to comments on my own app, as of several weeks ago. So either the rollout has continued steadily and recently touched me, or it's now available to everyone.
You can reply direct on Google Play Console, GPC API or AppFollow.io API.
Example how to reply on reviews in Google Play: https://appfollow.io/blog/how-and-why-to-reply-to-reviews-in-app-store-an-google-play
I am currently developing an application where I want to be able to have an option to allow the user to donate money for the app. Is there a particular way about doing this for android. I have tried looking at google but it mainly shows about paypal donation buttons for websites
I think it should be possible.
There's a similar discussion on Google Groups which basically says that donations are allowed as long as you don't offer additional functionality for that money.
Meaning no functionality is enabled after the donation is made.
Like #alocaly said, you're unable to recieve donations through a system different from android market payment or ads inside the application.
However, it is still possible to have your application on the Internet by free and with a donation button. The difference is that you cannot post it on the Android Market, so you'll have to do some extra work:
Upload to a webserver, so it can be downloaded to your phone.
Create a website (or post your application to another "illegal" market), so people can find your application.
Use some sort of advertising to let people know your application (Twitter retweets, community ads, GoogleAds, SEO, whatever)
Manage some kind of update system. Since you don't rely anymore on the Android Market, you don't have an automatic updating method (Android Market updates applications when you post a new version of it), so you should have a small class that checks a website looking for a new version (it's not that hard) and downloads a new version when there's one available.
Make work the Paypal button like #Tim said
However, you are able to do something that I've see out there: create a free version of your application and post it on the Android Market, and post another version of the same application called "Same program name (Donation)", costing some money. When someone wants to donate you, they'll only have to buy this version.
I hope it helps
I don't know what importance it has, but I think that the chart / terms of services we sign as android developers don't allow the usage of this kind of monetization.
As this is a subject that is changing a lot in Android world, with the soon to come API to pay in apps, I'm not sure it still has any importance, but you should still be aware of that.
Maybe you should take a look at this post, which explains how to integrate Paypal payments into an Android App witout leaving the App itself: How to integrate paypal donate in android app?