i have completed my First android application and i have deployed that application to different android based mobile phones
which is working fine.
my question to you is, is there iphone store like thing exists in android to upload your application by paying fee to android store or something like that..
or nothing or should i start passing my application to end users directly?
any help would be appriciated.
Yeah there is the Android Marketplace which you can find more details on at http://market.android.com/publish It costs $25 once off to register and you're free to upload your applications (which are available almost instantly)
Both is possible. You can distribute your app via the AndroidMarket and at the same time just share the apk file.
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I am developing a game for Android. This game is Pacman, I have seen it is already on Android Market. Anyway I would like to upload my app to Android when it is done. I am not looking for earning money, I just want to learn to program with Android SDK and I would like to put my app in Android app in order to put this in my CV. It would be for free.
Do you think there is any problem?
Thank you in advance.
The owners of Pacman can claim infringement and have it taken down, at least don't call it Pacman, that might help.
I dont see any problem in this.
You just have to pay a 1 time fee of $25
There is no problem with app with the same name. Main thing - is difference in packageName param in manifests file.
So, you can register for publishing on market(25$), and release your app with no problems.
I have uploaded an android app over Android Market. It is free and anyone can download it from the Market.It is downloaded over 100,000 times. And now i want to upload an updated version of that app. This time i want to charge $0.99 for each download. But i have a fear of jail-breaking. There are many websites offer paid apps of Android Market in free.
So, the question is how to stop this jail-breaking of android apps?
Thank you very much in advance.
And now i want to upload an updated version of that app. This time i want to charge $0.99 for each download.
You can't do that. You can offer a new app for $0.99, but you cannot make a free app be no longer free.
So, the question is how to stop this jail-breaking of android apps?
Use the LVL and hope for a fair amount of luck. Any license scheme can be cracked, but you may make it difficult enough that nobody will bother trying it for your app.
Or, choose a business model where you do not have to charge for the app.
No, there really isn't. Maybe have a license key like Launcher Pro, but even then I'm sure somebody will be able to bypass that.
Unfortunately, Google's LVL is simple to crack.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/android_drm_cracked_pirating_apps_is_easy.php
I have developed a android application which I want to publish to market. I have developed the app using Eclipse IDE I have gone through the publish related checklist and documents.
Here I have few doubts :
The certificate mentioned in the checklist, is it the same which I have used while exporting my app from Eclispe ?
I am a individual developer. Do I need to give the Company name ?
How much time it takes to activate once I publish the app ?
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Shankar
Yes. (I am assuming you followed the instructions at http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html)
You can give your name as the company name.
It is active immediately. :-) . There is no approval process or moderation.
I have recently published my sms scheduler app "In Time SMS". During the final days I face
same state as of you now. So, I think, I may can provide some answers to your questions.
For your queries:
It is the same certificate that you used during exporting app in eclipse. Save your keystore elsewhere.
You do not need a company name. You can publish your app as individual.
Normally it takes 15min-2hrs depending upon the published version distribution in several
servers of Google.
FYI:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.in.time.sms
http://intimesms.wix.com/reminder
Here's the scenario i am trying to achieve:
Publish/have an app in the Android app store
However - i do not want it to be searchable through the android market search, etc.
The only way people can access the app is if i give them an explicit link to download
Is above possible? If so - how? All FAQs/instrucitons i have seen publish & make it searchable for the whole world - but i want it only accessible through #3 above.
Thanks.
Try this site https://www.push-link.com/, you can upload apk on your private account and only can be accessible thorough automatic generated link and QR code. This service contains user notification on new versions and bug reports.
Two things that are problematic with the link to an APK approach:
Some of the devices out there (I m only aware of the Motorola Atrix) don't have the "Unkown Sources" option, meaning that this won't work on them.
You loose the ability to auto update the app if you want.
I would recommend adding a login process where only your users will have access to the actual application. This way, you still have the Market advantages and only those people can activate the application.
The main disadvantage is that the application will be open to search in the Market, but as far as I know, this won't be a problem since people will immediately uninstall it since they won't be able to activate it.
In your case, what I do is, I dont upload the application to the Market and distribute it from my server.
I mean this is simple, sweet and it also saves my $25 for the market account...
Don't do this. Just publish the APK to your own website, then give the users the URL to the APK, they can download and install it directly. The only thing they'll need to do is ensure that Menu-Settings-Applications-Unknown sources is ticked.
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?