Are Android sales really this bad?

gtt · October 9, 2012, 3:11pm

dude you just woke this thread from more than a year of sleeping [import]uid: 80469 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126931[/import]

Silky · October 9, 2012, 10:38pm

You have to understand the Android community. Most are not really going to buy a game and will usually play a free game if it’s ranked high. As Android is “open source” there’s more technical people who want to do more with their phone other than playing another ball/balloon game. I created a little networking reference app on Android and it’s selling fast. As much as they don’t admit, CoronaSDK is still biased towards iOS. I’m NOT going to renew my pro subscription here and use the Android SDK for my Android development so I can get the x100 more APIs,features/things you can do on an Android and not an iPhone. I learned that sells great on Android. [import]uid: 114389 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126968[/import]

r.pudlowski · October 10, 2012, 1:07am

well, since we are in necrothreading, it would be nice to hear of android downloads now, with the marketplace redone and all… [import]uid: 44010 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126977[/import]

horacebury · October 10, 2012, 1:38am

I can’t really say anything about the Android store because I don’t have an app there, but on the App Store (the last time I looked at the big figures) I’ve had about 2000 downloads of my free game but only 100 of the paid game. That was in autumn last year, I think. Since then I’ve had a lot more free downloads but almost no paid downloads at all.

I’m putting this down to the fact that there is little difference between the two versions and am working on ideas to change this. None of this thread does anything to convince me to spend time and money putting my game on the Android Marketplace. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126979[/import]

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gtt · October 9, 2012, 3:11pm

dude you just woke this thread from more than a year of sleeping [import]uid: 80469 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126930[/import]

gtt · October 9, 2012, 3:11pm

dude you just woke this thread from more than a year of sleeping [import]uid: 80469 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126931[/import]

Silky · October 9, 2012, 10:38pm

You have to understand the Android community. Most are not really going to buy a game and will usually play a free game if it’s ranked high. As Android is “open source” there’s more technical people who want to do more with their phone other than playing another ball/balloon game. I created a little networking reference app on Android and it’s selling fast. As much as they don’t admit, CoronaSDK is still biased towards iOS. I’m NOT going to renew my pro subscription here and use the Android SDK for my Android development so I can get the x100 more APIs,features/things you can do on an Android and not an iPhone. I learned that sells great on Android. [import]uid: 114389 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126968[/import]

r.pudlowski · October 10, 2012, 1:07am

well, since we are in necrothreading, it would be nice to hear of android downloads now, with the marketplace redone and all… [import]uid: 44010 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126977[/import]

horacebury · October 10, 2012, 1:38am

I can’t really say anything about the Android store because I don’t have an app there, but on the App Store (the last time I looked at the big figures) I’ve had about 2000 downloads of my free game but only 100 of the paid game. That was in autumn last year, I think. Since then I’ve had a lot more free downloads but almost no paid downloads at all.

I’m putting this down to the fact that there is little difference between the two versions and am working on ideas to change this. None of this thread does anything to convince me to spend time and money putting my game on the Android Marketplace. [import]uid: 8271 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 126979[/import]

addison.appsted · January 13, 2015, 8:54am

If the free version of app is available then it will be very great as people will get a chance to try it before purchasing the application.

addison.appsted · January 13, 2015, 8:54am

If the free version of app is available then it will be very great as people will get a chance to try it before purchasing the application.

daniel.b · April 5, 2015, 12:29pm

ggindlesperger:

I recently put a game Hairy Legs on the Android Market and Amazon. It has done very well on Apple App Store. Android Market has not done near as well. Here is the HUGE shocker for me.

The original Hairy Legs was made with a awesome language called GLBasic. GLBasic can compile for iOS and many others, but not Android. They recently added support for webOS. So I figured what the heck. All I need to do is take the same program and take 1 minute to re-compile it and put it on the webOS market. To date, the webOS sales have out done the Google Market big time. That was totally unexpected. HP waives the first year developer fee so I figured if it got 10 sales in a year it would be worth it.

I never thought webOS sales would be so far ahead of my Google sales. It is not near as good as Apple, but much better than Google and as of right now not near the hassle Google is. Corona is not to the point yet that you can implement all the features and expect it to work on iOS and Google.

I’m torn what to do now. The plan was Apple and Google (probably best bet down the road), but sales much better on webOS right now. WebOS people are hungry for things to do. Google is full of people who just wanted a cheap phone and hackers who only buy an app to put it on their website for others to download.

One other mention. No advertising at all on any platform. A site called Pre Central lets you submit your app to them and they put it in a rotating banner for free on their site, so I guess that is advertising, but no cost. They do it to help developers get recognized since they are THE site for webOS people. [import]uid: 8533 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 37394[/import]

what is the URL to precentral? I just googled it…

daniel.b · April 5, 2015, 12:29pm

ggindlesperger:

I recently put a game Hairy Legs on the Android Market and Amazon. It has done very well on Apple App Store. Android Market has not done near as well. Here is the HUGE shocker for me.

The original Hairy Legs was made with a awesome language called GLBasic. GLBasic can compile for iOS and many others, but not Android. They recently added support for webOS. So I figured what the heck. All I need to do is take the same program and take 1 minute to re-compile it and put it on the webOS market. To date, the webOS sales have out done the Google Market big time. That was totally unexpected. HP waives the first year developer fee so I figured if it got 10 sales in a year it would be worth it.

I never thought webOS sales would be so far ahead of my Google sales. It is not near as good as Apple, but much better than Google and as of right now not near the hassle Google is. Corona is not to the point yet that you can implement all the features and expect it to work on iOS and Google.

I’m torn what to do now. The plan was Apple and Google (probably best bet down the road), but sales much better on webOS right now. WebOS people are hungry for things to do. Google is full of people who just wanted a cheap phone and hackers who only buy an app to put it on their website for others to download.

One other mention. No advertising at all on any platform. A site called Pre Central lets you submit your app to them and they put it in a rotating banner for free on their site, so I guess that is advertising, but no cost. They do it to help developers get recognized since they are THE site for webOS people. [import]uid: 8533 topic_id: 10072 reply_id: 37394[/import]

what is the URL to precentral? I just googled it…