Hello All
I have created an app using the app inventor for my band and would like to get it beta tested by anyone who is willing.
Currently the app as a
basic whack a mole game
twitter feed
pictures
music player
gigs rss feed
social links
and an about section
if anyone has any ideas on what else i could add / change please comment
My band is called comeoutfiring and you can check us out at comeoutfiring dot com (sorry unable to post outside links at the mo)
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Awesome app you guys sound awesome! But one thing
When you play the song if you go to another tab or leave the app and come back you can't stop the music.
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cheers dude much appreciated. i have changed the player so the stop button is always visible so hopefully you will be able to stop it when you re-enter the app
if your interested then you can download a couple of our tracks from reverbnation (dot) com / comeoutfiring
Any more takers?
Pretty impressive! I love the twitter feed feature. On the pictures page, maybe you could zoom in on the images when they're selected?
Although it's a nice app and all - why not just make a mobile website? Would be easier I imagine !
Hey thank you i will look into the picture zoom feature.
i really wanted to play around with appinventor instead of making a mobile website just something a lil different also dont really see many bands with an app hopefully when i come round to releasing it (or when google actually allow you to) it will make the record companys go ohhhh very nice heres a huge sum of cash now write an album and tour the world lol
Yeah very nice app
Lol for the game hit the dead men
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how to promote my android app for free???
I guess you can find many promotion methods after you install an app from Google Play.
Splash window,
Push notification,
App recommendation inside an app.
Corporate with other developers and promote apps for each other.
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Well, at least the first three promotion methods can be found in most of the apps from Google Play.
But who knows more promotion methods?
You may install swably and share your apps in there, its community where dev and customer share thoughts about lots of app
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As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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Post it here on XDA.
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for everyone
Thanks
for you
ariser said:
I guess you can find many promotion methods after you install an app from Google Play.
Splash window,
Push notification,
App recommendation inside an app.
Corporate with other developers and promote apps for each other.
...
Well, at least the first three promotion methods can be found in most of the apps from Google Play.
But who knows more promotion methods?
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thanks very much.
okmijnlp said:
As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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Go.Bin said:
You may install swably and share your apps in there, its community where dev and customer share thoughts about lots of app
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This app on Google Play?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goofy2.swably
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okmijnlp said:
As previously stated, Swably is a free way to promote & share apps. That's probably your best bet.
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Oops, after I install this app from Google Play, I'm stuck in the Connect through a network page, and it gives me three options: Facebook, Twitter, Google+. However, if I choose Facebook, it takes long time to load and then gives me the message of "Connect to...timed out".
ariser said:
This app on Google Play?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=goofy2.swably
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Oops, after I install this app from Google Play, I'm stuck in the Connect through a network page, and it gives me three options: Facebook, Twitter, Google+. However, if I choose Facebook, it takes long time to load and then gives me the message of "Connect to...timed out".
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can you access Facebook on your phone?
subscribe to getjar and publish your app. or publish your app on Amazon appstore....
OR
Go To This Site and Publish [media.droidtweak. com / android-app-marketing] (Copy and paste it remove spaces, m a new user so i cant post outsider links, m jus trying to help, sorry moderators)
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Before you make any sort of promotional effort, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure you have a good rating. Get 10 friends to give you 5-stars. Nobody wants to download an unrated app (or even one with less than 5 ratings).
2) Add a video on the app store. It doesn't need to be pro, just something that gives a good indication of what your app does.
3) Make sure your screenshots are good and your description is accurate. The first sentence is the most important for describing what the app does.
After it's on the store (free version):
1) Post in forums
2) Submit it to review websites
3) Write up a press release (catchy headline, what your app does, why is it better - have a good angle) and send it to every news / tech / related website you can find. Who knows, 1 or 2 websites out of the 100s might write something about you, which can get you 100s of downloads. It's worth the hours it takes to do this. Also, use some Mail Merge software to make it personal (as simple as "Hi [name]").
4) Find influential twitter users that you think would use your app. Send them a message - dont harass them though. Be sincere. If they like it and they haven't tweeted about it, ask them to.
sam shaikh said:
subscribe to getjar and publish your app. or publish your app on Amazon appstore....
OR
Go To This Site and Publish [media.droidtweak. com / android-app-marketing] (Copy and paste it remove spaces, m a new user so i cant post outsider links, m jus trying to help, sorry moderators)
OR
Before you make any sort of promotional effort, you need to do the following:
1) Make sure you have a good rating. Get 10 friends to give you 5-stars. Nobody wants to download an unrated app (or even one with less than 5 ratings).
2) Add a video on the app store. It doesn't need to be pro, just something that gives a good indication of what your app does.
3) Make sure your screenshots are good and your description is accurate. The first sentence is the most important for describing what the app does.
After it's on the store (free version):
1) Post in forums
2) Submit it to review websites
3) Write up a press release (catchy headline, what your app does, why is it better - have a good angle) and send it to every news / tech / related website you can find. Who knows, 1 or 2 websites out of the 100s might write something about you, which can get you 100s of downloads. It's worth the hours it takes to do this. Also, use some Mail Merge software to make it personal (as simple as "Hi [name]").
4) Find influential twitter users that you think would use your app. Send them a message - dont harass them though. Be sincere. If they like it and they haven't tweeted about it, ask them to.
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nice advices, but the first link goes to paid reviews
New android app - need exposure
Hi everyone,
I'm a noob here (hopefully I'm not violating any rules) and was hoping to post one of my android apps here to help it gain some traction. My 11 year old son worked with me on this app, I would just like to keep him motivated by seeing some success.
Lately with the way the android market has become saturated, it has been very tough to get your app discovered.
I only do this as a hobby on the side. I have only developed games, they are all pretty simple games, no 3D or anything like that.
I recently released a dice game app (variation of Yahtzee), That I think some people would like.
It has some online challenge features with scoreloop, and an extra game mode.
My downloads to date are pretty poor, and was hoping to gain some exposure.
here is the link on the google play store:
play.google.com/store/ apps/details?id=com.anndconsulting.yahtzeecrag
I have a free (ad supported) and paid version released.
developer ID is ANND Consulting Games
Thanks for the help
Please let me know , if there is a better way of doing this, and I apologize in advance if I have violated and rules here.
When I was trying different methods to promote my app, I kinda noted it down. Here is brief about what I did:
http://obscurant1st.biz/blog/how-to-promote-android-app/
1. Never use push notifications aka push it to people's notification centers. People will perceive it as spam, and never download it. Ever.
2. Contact several Android news sites, and tip them that your *special* app is available. With special, i mean, really special. Don't even do it if it's a fart app or a stupid and useless app. You don't deserve the attention.
3. XDA. Publish it in the app section. People will find it and download it. People will use it if it's any good, or people will complain if it's ****; and you'll deserve it.
Bottom line: Build it, and they will come. Exploit the system in a bad way and you'll go nowhere. Don't piss people off with annoying ads.
From my very recent experience, getting a review on a major website with tons of viewers will get you a ton of attention. Websites like android police and android central have a ton of views per day.
My usual promotions were to post on forums. If you were lucky and people paid attention to your app, they'd download it. The more downloads you get, the higher chances of it showing up on Top New apps or just Top Apps. Once you get on that list, its when the app will finally take off. Its took 2.5 weeks for my live wallpaper to get to top 10 new paid live wallpapers and top 10 new free live wallpaper. The Top Paid live wallpaper is easy to get on as only a few purchases will qualify the app.
Anyway, back to my point about the review. My app was doing ok and there was a consistent downloads per day then it started to decline a little. But all of a sudden, my google wallets account exploded with purchases and my free version with admob banners, the requests and impressions exploded. I was shocked and had no idea what was going on. Then, a quick google of my app, revealed that android police decided to give my app a review. i was shocked. I never asked them to review it, so it was pretty much free publicity. If you look at the little graph on the right side of my app, you'll see how it was starting to decline, then all of a sudden, it shot up.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.qk.batterycorelwfree
Here's the review on my app.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0...e-way-to-track-your-lithium-ion-expenditures/
Main points:
1. Post on forums
2. Get a review done.
Side note, I've never seen a good app not get downloads. All good apps will get tons of downloads.
LordManhattan said:
3. XDA. Publish it in the app section.
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Well, I've published my app in the app section, People loved it and found it useful, I updated frequently, But The app went in the last pages which I think no one checks,
True is there any really good way to promote app for free?
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Well, I've published my app in the app section, People loved it and found it useful, I updated frequently, But The app went in the last pages which I think no one checks,
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chengsokdara said:
True is there any really good way to promote app for free?
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There are lots of ways. Requesting a review for your app is one of the easiest ways.
I have started a free review service, You could consider requesting a free review from me!
Also see this link from my signature with lots of tips to promote our apps for free!
I can help promoting yours apps on the biggest Polish Android forum.
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Then, a quick google of my app, revealed that android police decided to give my app a review. i was shocked. I never asked them to review it, so it was pretty much free publicity.
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In other words: what you say about yourself, is advertising. What others say about you, it's public relations - much more effective way of promotion, but much much more complicated, too.
This is how it should look like
Still beta but i should finish it quite soon.
www.nexuslivewallpapers.com
Do you find making a web page an effective way of promoting an adroid app?
I'd like to know your experience about this.
Mine is that it's not that effective, but I may have done it wrong.
Thanks!
Nice one! :laugh:
Love to know how you did this, what engine are you using?
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Nice one! :laugh:
Love to know how you did this, what engine are you using?
Promote your app on social media website , submit your app on differnet app submission sites , promote your app on free forums, if you have a excellent app your app get number of downloads and visitors.
its too simple to use any engine. But i think that someday someone will port or try to port android ui only for marketing purposes, and ability to check out app before purchase on a interacitve website is priceless and solves bad ratings problems definetely.
Your not using AppSurfer then?
Something strictly proprietary?
I'm surprised Google Play hasn't nailed live previews yet :angel:
AppSurfer is a streaming service, they run an emulator instance on server and stream video to browser and events to the server.
I have simply coded my app in webgl.