We have just created a new user id on Twitter (androiddecals). This user ID is currently being used to test the API for our new apps.
Also.. new applications on the way. Here are 2 that are currently under development.
#1) A Weight training application
#2) a Trivia application
This is all I can say for now as the rest of the information classified, and not available to the android base….. yet.
1. Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Right, Bottom Left.
2. Tap the Android.
3. I ended up on Home Screen.
Just had to do this on my new Droid phone , and i DO NOT want to activate service yet. This service will be used later when testing application in the market place.
Site is now live, and we are picking up a 5 more designs this week.
After much debate over selling android stickers on our blog, we have decided to move our sales into an actual store front.
droidstickers.com (beta) is currently up, and will be test.
We also have alot more plans for stickers, and other droid merchandise so stay tuned.
After looking at several various options.
adwhirl.com as well as mobclix.com came to light. Allowing one to take advantage of various advertising networks.
I for one am a bit partial to Google, and will remain using Google’s Admob network. I just so happens that today AdMob released a new SDK, that allows changing of the adds through he website.
This is a fantastic advantage as now each application does not need to be changed. The advantage?.. finding a color scheme that works with the application, yet provides a better click through rate.
Okay.. so in looking.. seems google hasn’t quite yet aquired admob due to FTC intervention.
Guess we will have to wait and see. For right now, I am holding tight, as worse case, I would turn around and use the $75 made in advertising over the last month, and advertise the paid applications.
This tool is great, and the best I have found so far.
Not only will it let you check apps on the marketplace, but as a developer you can view your comments, and a few other people who have the app installed.
Also.. want to see whats currently loaded on my phone? Check this out…
Notifications are now used to notify user when files are being saved, and finished saving.
This alone as taken over a week to figure that includes threading, to spawn.
Also, decided to create “The Wire” soundboard with help from a friend. Now available on the marketplace.
More applciations on the way… we are working on picking up a few developers to help with the workload.
Had another development spurt. It was a rainy weekend here, so no outside stuff to take care of.
We have made some excellent progress on the apps, mostly during this process was a code rewrite. This will help in the short and long term, understanding the application, where it breaks, and allow for easily adding new sounds and features.
- Finally figured out how to run a process in the background
- Used log.d(“DEBUG”, “This is some string and process”) This works great, as using Toast or Dialog to send message was crashing the background thread.
- added a splash screen to HitchHikers.
Current Applications Version
- HitchHikers 1.7.1
- Animal Ringtones Full 1.1.1
- Annoying Ringtones 1.2.0
Todo.. in process of being updated for this weeks release
- Animal Ringtones Lite
- Classic Ringtones
- Classic Ringtones Lite
Future release
- RockPaper Scissors
- Tax Bash, based on above code.
Todo:
Add message to notify of when background save is completed.
Please note, QR Codes on the right for the applications are a bit out of date. Looking for an easy way to upload and distribute applications.
PS) spoiler, we are looking for mobile app developers. We are growing, and will soon need to outsource tasks. If you are interested, tweet me.
Mark Murphy has been writing really interesting posts in Android guys about the different business models around Android platform. We have chosen the most relevant ones adding some additional information:
- Build the app and sell it via the Android Market
- Give a free app, supported by ads (Adsense mobile, Admob, etc.)
- Give a free app, sell the customizations: plugins, analytics, additional features, account (e.g. RTM, Spotify), etc.
- Sell development tools: GUI toolkits, portability tool, …
- Develop custom applications for others (e.g. Droiders)
- Became a trainer of Android development
- Specialize in porting iPhone, Windows Mobile, J2ME applications to Android.
- Promote your ability to port some critical parts of the apps to the Android Native Development Kit (NDK)
- Became an specialist building cross-platform apps using HTML, Javascript and CSS (e.g. PhoneGap, Titanium, Rhodes)
- Became an expert to build apps with GPS and backend capabilities of HTML 5.
- Build an App Generator (e.g. ePUB, RSS, audiobooks) selling this generated apps.
- Became a specialist building Augmented Reality Layers for Layar or Wikitude
Mark has done an incredible job posting these business models, you can read the different post for more information (Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
Serveral new items, that I will post in this one single post.
- All applications updated, please check the Android Marketplace for updates to all applications.
- Applications listed on this site are one or two versions behind. I will work on updating them soon.
- Annoying and Classic Ringtone apps are currently in the Motorola marketplace waiting for approval.
- Exclusive China only market for now.
- Check out Aloqa on the android market, we are working on creating a feed (http://aloqa.coulson.mobi/live.php)
- This will download a KML file that is compatible with Google Earth
- It will be used for local business Advertising
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