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Hi Android devs,
I'm a grad student at Brown University (USA) and also an Android developer during my free time. I'm collecting data on developer experience with power management when developing applications. Have you every thought about how much energy your digital masterpiece spends? Do you try to optimize it in order to be energy-efficient? How do you do so? If not, why?
If you have developed apps for Android or another smartphone/tablet platform, I'd like to hear your opinion. This survey is entirely non-profit and solely for academic purposes. Answering the questionnaire shouldn't take more than 10 minutes. As a gift of appreciation and to encourage developers to speak up, I'm raffling a $10 Amazon gift card. This is a symbolic gift, since experience has showed me that if a prize is too high, respondents will try to inflate the results, which ends up invalidating the survey data.
If you have ten minutes to spare, here is the link: https://brown.us2.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_7UHYWCp7MjAsZHD
Disclaimer: The survey is anonymous and does not track identifying information (unless you want to enter the card lottery, but you don't have to).
If you don't want to take the survey, but would like to share your experiences here, feel free to do so.
Thanks.
Hey Guys, i'm a developer in his prime and i was wondering what do you think I should use to make money of my applications? Which solution or ... website? Can you please help?
TerryGidd said:
Hey Guys, i'm a developer in his prime and i was wondering what do you think I should use to make money of my applications? Which solution or ... website? Can you please help?
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Admob :good:
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TerryGidd said:
Hey Guys, i'm a developer in his prime and i was wondering what do you think I should use to make money of my applications? Which solution or ... website? Can you please help?
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TerryGidd said:
Hey Guys, i'm a developer in his prime and i was wondering what do you think I should use to make money of my applications? Which solution or ... website? Can you please help?
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Could you be more specific? I think most people use the Google Play market for app sales, although there are alternatives (such as Amazon). Are you asking whether you should charge for the app vice depending on ad revenue?
TerryGidd said:
Hey Guys, i'm a developer in his prime and i was wondering what do you think I should use to make money of my applications? Which solution or ... website? Can you please help?
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Three options:
Have an app that's good enough to make people pay to install it: Quite hard, especially on the Android platform where many users expect even high quality apps to be free.
Free app with advertisements. This usually only works well for apps which have a high user engagement, both session frequency and session length. If you have a utility app that runs in the background or gets used once in a blue moon, this model is not really suited for that, even if the app is super useful.
Free app with in-app purchases to unlock features and/or acquire consumable items. Especially games seem to be very successful with this approach.
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leviteo said:
leviteo.com :good:
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I've been pretty happy using these guys.
mrp.adsyolo .com
more of an exchange instead of a single ad network that includes around 120 various networks acting as demand partners. (admob, inmobie, yadda yadda yadda). I'm currently getting about 1500 +/- a month with these guys, not enough to leave the day job but it covers my beer expenses.
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I'm using multiple networks... been testing the new network tapcontext because of their high payouts. Averaging $6 CPM's. Really depends on your apps though.
aiaran said:
I'm using multiple networks... been testing the new network tapcontext because of their high payouts. Averaging $6 CPM's. Really depends on your apps though.
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whoa, $6? could you provide some details? what kind of app did you do that is making you that kind of cpm? what kind of ad placement did you use?
LanceMarble said:
whoa, $6? could you provide some details? what kind of app did you do that is making you that kind of cpm? what kind of ad placement did you use?
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I obviously don't want to give too much away in regards to the exact apps as I wouldn't need the competition , but they are travel related. I am getting the $6+ CPM off tapcontext, using both their interstitial & notification ads.
This list below in general is a pretty good summary of some of the best ways to monetize your application.
With this in mind, the latter in the list (unlockable content) is something that we will be experiencing far more of in the future in my opinion...
smartician said:
Three options:
Have an app that's good enough to make people pay to install it: Quite hard, especially on the Android platform where many users expect even high quality apps to be free.
Free app with advertisements. This usually only works well for apps which have a high user engagement, both session frequency and session length. If you have a utility app that runs in the background or gets used once in a blue moon, this model is not really suited for that, even if the app is super useful.
Free app with in-app purchases to unlock features and/or acquire consumable items. Especially games seem to be very successful with this approach.
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It is kinda sad that its getting harder and harder to make money off the purchase of the app itself anymore. Even if you give out the free version, I've seen that very few people upgrade to the full version. There are just too many free games out there. Users end up spending more money within their favorite free apps instead of trying out many different apps.
I'm in the middle of an ad campaign for my new app and its getting a great # of installs (more than other apps). Reviews are good and emails/comments on social media about the game are positive, and yet so few people upgrade to the full version!
In my opinion never use the notification kind of adds, its very annoying wich makes people uninstall your app, unlockable content would be the best move i think. Again, its my opinion.
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Different ads are good for the beginning.
I use Admob and for now it's good for me.
I can't live with this money but little is better than nothing.
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Sure, you may try to place the in-app ads. Clickky's monetization platform will help you to place ads relevant to your users (the programmatic approach identifies your user and his interests and shows him the appropriate ads). It works by eCPM. One of the publishers received traffic from 11 geo locations in various regions. eCPM rates peaked at $61.5 in Russia, followed by $30.28 in Switzerland, $14.13 in New Zealand, and $9.45 in France. Overall, eCPM haven’t fallen below $0.65. He had a mobile web-site, not an app, but it doesn't matter.
The eCPM you get depends on users. Let's suppose that the app advertiser has some profile of users who will most likely install his app, use it and make in-app purchases. He is ready to pay money to attract these certain users, showing them the ads. When these certain users use your app, the system (RTB-based) connect you (publisher) and app owner (advertiser). That's why the eCPM is very high. Imagine, how much you are ready to pay as an advertiser for the particular user who will bring you at least $200/mo via in-app purchases. Yes, that's why some publishers may earn up to $150
Agree with @aiaran that you should use multiple networks as they give you different fill rates in different GEOs. Unfortunately there is no best-ever solution on the market. E.g., now Clickky's monetization platfrom is now very good on Tier 1 countries, and maybe some other platform will monetize your traffic from Australia or Russia much better. In a month the situation may change, so you have to combine different platform and monetize yur traffic to the fullest.
I work for AppLixir which specializes in reward videos for games and we would love to help you with any apps or games you have. You really don't need to prepare anything other than having a great game! Revenue generation on our platform can be implemented in less than an hour (15 minutes for many).
It's free to signup too.
Try looking into Kin, a cryptocurrency that is working to change the monetization game completely. No more annoying ads or in app purchase. kinecosystem.org
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Hi all,
Have been looking for a crm, stock & invoicing type app to run on my samsung tablet for a little while and am not really finding anything that covers all of the bases. Most just seem to be front ends for large corporate systems and the others very limited in what they can do, so I thought I'd seek guidance.
What I'm looking for, well I'm self employed and travel to a customers premises where I primarily sell a product but also carry out ongoing servicing. Regular service's also include additional products. Some of my products are stock items but many are ordered from a small number of suppliers specifically on behalf of the customer.
The app will need to; maintain a customer database, be able to schedule appointments with them, maintain an account balance, generate an invoice that is emailable direct from the app, maintain a stock list, raise orders to replace stock or to fulfill customer demand, generate various reports for total receipts, total spend, customer spend etc. Ideally this should all be able to sync back to google docs for record keeping, analysis etc.
So what do you think people any ideas?
I have so far spent 3 days trawling through the app market with no luck, nothing I've found does all of it and juggling 2 or 3 apps is defeating the purpose of using an android tablet I may as well just buy a notepad & pencil.
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Jon
Hello
I am searching for a developer.
I have recently seen big increase in revenue and would like to scale up with someone who can build apps for ANDROID.
I have experience marketing the apps
Recently i have seen a big jump in revenue (pic attachment)
If you are interested, please message me on here. Then we can discuss on Skype.
Thanks!
dirtyman115 said:
Hello
I am searching for a developer.
I have recently seen big increase in revenue and would like to scale up with someone who can build apps for ANDROID.
I have experience marketing the apps
Recently i have seen a big jump in revenue (pic attachment)
If you are interested, please message me on here. Then we can discuss on Skype.
Thanks!
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Hi,
Can you tell give us more details about how you get that increase and what you're looking for?
Thanks
I'm an Android freelance developer, and I could be interested.
What is the project about? Thanks
Hello
Is this offer still valid ?
I am .NET % android developer . Have 5-6 apps published already.
Let me know if you need dev still.
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gpuig said:
I'm an Android freelance developer, and I could be interested.
What is the project about? Thanks
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I am currently looking for a freelance developer who, if can deliver, stands to gain a lucrative repeat-customer. Solar is booming, and I have been developing an App for one of the largest solar sales and installation companies in the state of New York. Our company has attempted to deploy technology to our outside sales lead generation team, but without much effect. The key missing ingredient in their puzzle is an easy-to-use, efficient, and stream-lined interface in which to seamlessly record data into our Salesforce database. I have conceptualized this project in great detail, and have even begun developing it myself using an Android Studio environment. I have successfully used the Salesforce Mobile SDK to log-in to our test.salesforce server, and have also successfully received data from our test server onto my tablet. I also have a working satellite-google maps, but am in dire need of an experienced developer to help bring this project to completion.
Ultimately, the plan is to provide an offline-capable version, utilizing the Salesforce SmartSync and SmartStore features provided by the SDK, but in order to prove the utility of this application to people at the company with the ‘ink-felt pen’, I plan on three phases of development. First, a internet-reliant version of the application, which can upload data into Salesforce in real-time, from the field. We will then deploy the app during phase two, in order to generate user-feedback and trouble-shooting support, while we gear up for phase three, the offline-capable version. The offline-version gives the ability for us to grow our lead generation team without having to provide everyone a monthly data-plan. It is the icing on the cake to the big-wigs of this project.
I am available 24/7 via Skype.
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PacManSolar said:
I am currently looking for a freelance developer who, if can deliver, stands to gain a lucrative repeat-customer. Solar is booming, and I have been developing an App for one of the largest solar sales and installation companies in the state of New York. Our company has attempted to deploy technology to our outside sales lead generation team, but without much effect. The key missing ingredient in their puzzle is an easy-to-use, efficient, and stream-lined interface in which to seamlessly record data into our Salesforce database. I have conceptualized this project in great detail, and have even begun developing it myself using an Android Studio environment. I have successfully used the Salesforce Mobile SDK to log-in to our test.salesforce server, and have also successfully received data from our test server onto my tablet. I also have a working satellite-google maps, but am in dire need of an experienced developer to help bring this project to completion.
Ultimately, the plan is to provide an offline-capable version, utilizing the Salesforce SmartSync and SmartStore features provided by the SDK, but in order to prove the utility of this application to people at the company with the ‘ink-felt pen’, I plan on three phases of development. First, a internet-reliant version of the application, which can upload data into Salesforce in real-time, from the field. We will then deploy the app during phase two, in order to generate user-feedback and trouble-shooting support, while we gear up for phase three, the offline-capable version. The offline-version gives the ability for us to grow our lead generation team without having to provide everyone a monthly data-plan. It is the icing on the cake to the big-wigs of this project.
I am available 24/7 via Skype.
Add Roflologist.
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Hi
I am android freelance developer with 3+ years of experience.
Some of my work can be found here
http://jallenet.blogspot.com/p/android.html
Please PM me I am interested to work..
dirtyman115 said:
Hello
I am searching for a developer.
I have recently seen big increase in revenue and would like to scale up with someone who can build apps for ANDROID.
I have experience marketing the apps
Recently i have seen a big jump in revenue (pic attachment)
If you are interested, please message me on here. Then we can discuss on Skype.
Thanks!
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More details of what you are looking for would be good.
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So you are a talented individual (or a group) whose product out there some people would benefit from ?
Or not yet done with your product yet?.. but you do have the skills that you can use to build a product, that is a great gift by itself! and it should not be gone unnoticed.
“Nothing from nothing ever yet was born”
Neither it comes out of nowhere, nor it would just disappear.
Inspiration and outcome.. two elementary aspects for the process, and the main subject of this article as well.
You're either generously willing to gift your product to the world (which is highly appreciated by all your users) like so many free apps on the market. That works very well as long as you can afford the luxury of supporting your product without expecting a financial return.
Or naturally, you would be thinking.. can I get money out of this? which is absolutely fine, and it should keep up your desire to support, update, and upgrade your product, what you should be thinking is how!.
Software
Writing this article having software production as a primary subject in mind, I strongly believe that the discussion can fairly fit any other kind of product.
In this article
We will be discussing some very common methods first, as well as some unusual methods later on.
it’s not a guide with a couple of steps to follow and unleash the jinni!
It is meant to briefly provide our brain juice by covering different aspects in ways we can provide a better cause for our innovation.
Straightforward
One of the first, yet most commonly used methods by mankind. Some would call it “being an honest tradesman”. This is when we simply ask our customer for money equivalent to the product we are providing. A good way to get a return for what we propose. When following a "straight forward" strategy, I would strongly advise a good product presentation and marketing campaign, this is how we can get our customers to willingly pay to get our product.
Sponsored
What could be better than someone funding our project, believing in our product and outcome. This is where we can focus only on our product, as having someone believing in our skills enough to sponsor our project is quite a push for self confidence. But the question remains; What does it take to get sponsored? How to lead a sponsored project to success?!
A spectacular proposal, promising outcome, uniquely identified features. As of leading our sponsored project to success, a solid plan in details is the main element of success.
Fishing?
Are you a fishing kind of person?
Lay ahead your net with all your goods for free to the sea of customers, some will gracefully offer you a fish in return!
Except you don't actually need a fishing boat to do so in here..
One more common strategy is depending on donations. Releasing our useful product absolutely for free, promoting either ourselves or our product, a satisfied customer will be offering us donations to keep up the good work. it’s not as easy as it sounds.. yet not too complicated, we have already done most of our part in this when we successfully produced a quality product mentioning that donations are most welcome. That being said, this strategy depends totally on the kind of customers we have.
Campaign Strategy
Previously, we mentioned 2 different methods, getting a sponsor and asking for donations. In campaign strategy we combine both these methods together. Like when we’re looking for a sponsor, we prepare the attractive proposal, but we don’t do it for a specific sponsor, we ask for donations support to build our project and bring our ideas to life.
A part of a bigger picture
Another commonly used strategy, not in a direct way occasionally, is supporting -with our product- a successful organisation by being a part of their production campaign. There is where we get a return for our efforts without caring about how is the product presented or published. However, using this method indicates lower risk factors, most likely our product will lose its identity by becoming a part of something else.
Trials
It is always an option to split our product into 2 parts, a stripped version for free, and a full paid version. A successful strategy, counting mainly on our product quality plus having attractive features to offer. A free product is attractive by itself for our customer, but that’s not all what we’re looking for, the end game here is to have this free product itself truly deep within its user experience to keep our users looking for our full version.
Ask for more!
Quite similar strategy to our previous one, but we don’t have to produce 2 different versions of our product in here, just one version.. but missing some features (or accessories). With these missing litle features we can make money. However, we are actually selling these desirable features in here, our product better be functioning and totally usable without these features. Product quality and user experience are playing an important role in here as well.
An Apple
Spotting Apple’s brand logo on any piece of technology uniquely identifies it, guarantees as well the quality and support. A regular customer would peacefully pay a huge amount of money for it without doubting the product.
To be able to ask for the price we’re looking for, we have first to build reputation, and gain our customers’ trust. What identifies our product uniquely ? Why would a regular customer prefer our product than others already existing? Unless our product is quite unique or a one of a kind invention, one good strategy is to actually compromise in terms of price.
Never underestimate the crowd
Our customer has already made it that far and decided to go with our product. it doesn’t mean nothing, it means we are actually one step closer to our esteemed goal, the more customers we get the closer we are to becoming an icon. so if selling for the desired price is not currently an option for our product, then spreading our product to gain popularity should be the first step. social networks would help a great deal in doing so.
Speaking of networks..
As it is surely easier to use an existing network, it is absolutely more powerful to build our own. even a symbolic return for our loyal customer promoting our brand would be an encouragement. There are many ways where we can use customers and fans to to gain profit.
The Idea of Sharing
What if the customer himself is actually finding our next customer? or actually selling one of our products in our name!
However, a simple return could be all what it takes when you ask nicely a satisfied customer, a symbolic return to the new business partner is not enough to keep the network growing, but sharing a tiny bit of your assisted earnings would do the trick.
The Art of Perfection
The concept of perfection is absolutely relative.. one would say it doesn’t exist!
It depends on how you look at it, and what are you looking for. From a consumer point of view it could be just satisfying whatever was originally expected out of it.
The future is the true success
Straight to the point.. it could be fairly easy to gain some profit from our initial product, however, this should not be the final goal, it can only be just a step on the way. regardless of how is the product presented, advertised, or promising are the features in it. The product quality and support is what puts in the final words with its customer satisfaction.
A final word
Out of all debated concepts of this subject, besides gathering our clear thoughts on the product outcome, a final thought in mind should lead to initially aiming for development and production, as close as it gets to its relative perfection. Which is a money making strategy by itself regardless the methods used.