Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-21 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 21 August 2010 00:30, Bret Foreman wrote: > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I think we've discovered a business opportunity in the Android Market. > Someone needs to write a book about how to market Android apps. Maybe > it could be a little broader and include iPhone app marketing too with > compar

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-20 Thread Natalie Hooper
PS: there are other aspects to take into considerations for what people call "sleeky", like graphics, they need to be addressed as well obviously. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-20 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 19 August 2010 23:09, TreKing wrote: > > This is why there should be a "technical note" field (where you could also >> describe hardware limitations for example) and I'd rather ask for that than >> for a longer description field. >> > > What's the point of adding another, separate field for "

Re: [android-developers] Re: Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Natalie Hooper
2010/8/19 String > It's also that, with the other shortcomings of the Market, you need to > use your 325 characters to: > - describe what's new in the latest version > - respond to comments > - give special instructions that users may need the first time they > run your app > - mention hardware l

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Natalie Hooper
A "more" button would work but I still don't think 325 characters is limiting. There is no need to butcher the English language, you can express what your app does in two or three straight to the point sentences without taking any grammatical shortcut. If you can't, get somebody else to write the d

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-18 Thread Natalie Hooper
Your experience sounds quite similar to mine actually, particularly regarding AdMob (I once spent what seemed like 1 hour looking for their SDK on their website!). I personally like the short descriptions - it forces you to think about what your app really does/how it is useful and as a user, it's

Re: [android-developers] Converting XML into Java in Android

2010-08-18 Thread Natalie Hooper
file. On 13 August 2010 09:03, Natalie Hooper wrote: > I've done something similar in my app, I have created a separate class > called "XmlFileParser", in which I use a XmlResourceParser object to carry > out the parsing. > > > On 11 August 2010 11:34, Neilz w

Re: [android-developers] How does AdMob calculate how much to pay developers per click? Is AdMob better than AdSense?

2010-08-16 Thread Natalie Hooper
I believe it's on a per-ad basis, not a per-country basis. On 14 August 2010 21:50, Greg Siano wrote: > I just integrated AdMob into my app. I noticed that in South Korea, > there were 24 clicks, but that I only got 7 cents off of those > clicks. In Malaysia, there was one click that generated