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How to market your android games and apps part 1

Ok you put time and effort into your games or apps but still cant seem to get downloads. You might even see a game or app similar to yours but for some reason they are charting but your not. There are over 100,000 developers and over a million apps on googleplay. What are they doing that your not?
1) Website- I see a lot of developers that have a single blog page for all their apps. Look at the format of google play and match your website as close as you can to what google play has. Why? Customers are use to a certain format and like things that look familiar . Think like a customer when building a website and put the same effort as you were in programming your apps.
2)Social Networking-Make a twitter and facebook account. Any app release you have or updates post them.You can even interact with customers and get feedback directly from them. Use this as a tool to learn from real people and adjust your game or app based on feedback.
3)Make Niche Apps- There is no way indie developers can match the power of big companies. Rather than try to take on gameloft or EA focus on niche apps. Small apps like car locators or how to cook books. Small apps like these have been know to get more downloads vs making a game going against a bigger company. Small focused apps or simple games with great graphics can draw people to your app.
4)Post in Forums- Post your game or app in several forums. Be careful as many forums are not really indie friendly. Most forums have a section where you can post games or apps away from where regular forum users cant see. Also you might run into jealous developers who have nothing better to do then degrade your game. Post in several forums to bring in users but remember this is only a small part of your marketing efforts. This forums is very developer friendly though.
5)Rate Me Button- In your apps your should have a rate me button and a googleplay button that points to only your apps in google play. You can also have a button to your website to give the customer a more personal touch.
6) Paid vs. Free- I would suggest you make 4 to 5 free apps before making a paid app. Most customers do not want to pay and only enjoy free apps. You can make a paid version but be warned if you make a paid version users might
1) uninstall the free version
2)buy the paid version
3)refund the paid version but keep the apk on thier device
4) Now they have the paid version for free.
I will make another how to market your android apps part 2 soon. Till then good luck with your games and apps.

These are helpful tips seeing as me and a friend just released our first app a month ago, thanks!

yoshihat said:
These are helpful tips seeing as me and a friend just released our first app a month ago, thanks!
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Your welcome hope your friends apps does well

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Cross Promotion Club (Promote your app for free)

Hi all,
I'm an indie Android developer and recently with other indies we decide build our SDK to help each other to promote our apps and games.
The main idea is to give more impressions to new apps and games in the first 30 days to get them in ranking.
We are going to give 60% of our impressions to new apps and games and 40% to old ones.
Here's the rules to partecipate:
We are going to review the app or game of the developer who want to partecipate (No junk, no push notifications, no aggressive advertising)
We don't balance impressions, clicks or installs because we believe we should grow together. Anyway we track them using Google Analytics.
We have an empty slow for new apps/games every 10 days. We split 60% of impressions giving 30% to apps/games with less than 10 days, 20% to apps/games between 10 and 20 days and 10% to apps/games between 20 and 30 days.
Any app/game should keep the SDK at least for 3 months (We'd like you keep it to help everyone).
We use 2 type of ads : A Modal and an AppWall and we show them 50%-50%. We support portrait and landscape orientation.
We show ads in a consistent way onload. We show it once a day skipping the first run.
Our SDK support Unity.
Permissions required are : ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE and INTERNET to download the ads.
We have 2 servers at the moment hosting a json file and images and icons. We load balance on them.
I attached a couple of screenshot of the AppWall and Modal we show.
This is a completelly free service!
If you want to join us send me an email with a link to the app/game you want to promote to [email protected]

megasoft78 said:
Hi all,
I'm an indie Android developer and recently with other indies we decide build our SDK to help each other to promote our apps and games.
The main idea is to give more impressions to new apps and games in the first 30 days to get them in ranking.
We are going to give 60% of our impressions to new apps and games and 40% to old ones.
Here's the rules to partecipate:
We are going to review the app or game of the developer who want to partecipate (No junk, no push notifications, no aggressive advertising)
We don't balance impressions, clicks or installs because we believe we should grow together. Anyway we track them using Google Analytics.
We have an empty slow for new apps/games every 10 days. We split 60% of impressions giving 30% to apps/games with less than 10 days, 20% to apps/games between 10 and 20 days and 10% to apps/games between 20 and 30 days.
Any app/game should keep the SDK at least for 3 months (We'd like you keep it to help everyone).
We use 2 type of ads : A Modal and an AppWall and we show them 50%-50%. We support portrait and landscape orientation.
We show ads in a consistent way onload. We show it once a day skipping the first run.
Our SDK support Unity.
Permissions required are : ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE and INTERNET to download the ads.
We have 2 servers at the moment hosting a json file and images and icons. We load balance on them.
I attached a couple of screenshot of the AppWall and Modal we show.
This is a completelly free service!
If you want to join us send me an email with a link to the app/game you want to promote to [email protected]
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I'm interested, just emailed you!

SDK size..?
SShadowsapps said:
I'm interested, just emailed you!
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What Impact sdk integration will make on my apk size..?

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Anybody need help?

Updated new version on PlayStore.

Hey! This idea is good but old. Google Play have new Politics! He look for everyone User that give a 5 stars raiting how many days this User used this app or game! Ratings that comming from Users that using under 2-3 days your app get deleted! Sorry but with new Politics of Google Play is your app not helpfull!

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[APP][6.0+] Free Lot.io | The 100% free lottery

In the past I have downloaded a few different apps from the Play store that let you do scratchers to gain coins, where you watch an AD to play. Enough free coins got you enough for a free gift card. Problem is every one of these apps is a scam, and if you read the recent reviews you can see just that. People get their accounts locked before they can cash out.
So I developed Free Lot.io, the 100% free lottery with PayPal winner verification's at the end of each month. When in the app you watch a short video ad to claim your free ticket. Right now the cap is 7 times per day with potential to increase up to 10 times per day. In the app you can also see the total amount for the month so far, this will increase faster as more people start using the app (The more that play, the more we pay). At the end of the month we have a script that will randomly selects a winner. The winner can win a total of up to $10,000 if the jackpot pool is that high, if the Jackpot pool is over $10,000 then a second winner will be selected up to $10,000. For example if the total loto pool is at $23,000 there would be 3 winners, the first receiving $10,000 the second getting $10,000 and the third getting $3,000. It's that simple, no data logging, no excessive personal information, and no permissions required/requested. You must be 18 years or older to use this app, and create an account. I am very excited to be sharing this with the community. And we're excited we did our first payout the other day! All winner verifications are located on our Instagram located here Instagram
Play Link

How legal is it to run such applications in Google Play?

nitrinus said:
How legal is it to run such applications in Google Play?
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We confine within all of Google Play's terms and conditions. Since this is a sweepstakes app (No money involved from the user), we don't have to worry about the gambling aspect of it. Google has reviewed the application and approved it's spot on Google Play.

Really interesting idea. App seems to work fine.
I'm aware this is a beta but to polish it you could change the toasts to snackbars and add progress bars/spinners for when you register/login as well as perhaps add some haptic feedback.

Deadline.live said:
Really interesting idea. App seems to work fine.
I'm aware this is a beta but to polish it you could change the toasts to snackbars and add progress bars/spinners for when you register/login as well as perhaps add some haptic feedback.
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Great ideas, consider them implemented in the next update!

Yes yes it is we've re-branded to LuckBot. You can find it in the google play store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=apps.skytek.freeloto
Muller21pr0 said:
thank you!
I will certainly play the lottery
Is this still available?
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