did anyone have a good white paper about “who to promote my app in google play” ? I did yesterday published the first time an app on Google Play and I see that the web site is much simpler than I known from the apple app store…
Thanks
michael
you can promote it with forums, blogs , reviews on youtube. I would start writing playandroid or droidgamers. com about your game. droidgamers has also a forum post a thread about your game with screenshots and videos etc… and a description and a link…
Thanks Martin, very use full links.
Michael
Take advantage of the Description you write for your app. Unlike iOS, Android’s search feature takes into account words that are in your app’s description (much like how Google search works). What I do is come up with a good list of what I think strong keywords/phrases are for my type of app, then formulate a description that repeats these words/phrases throughout (but at the same time make it reasonable to read).
Well thats a very good idea but we have to be sure that google will not cancel the description. I have modify my text a little bit and will see whats happening…
THX
Yeah, the key is to make the description sound natural, but at the same time utilize those strong keywords throughout it.
Are you aware that your app won’t even appear in the Play Store if your users phone uses an armv6 processor. I.e android phones that are a bit over a year old.
This is because when you build your app in Corona, Corona puts an entry in the Manifest that tells Google that your app is incompatible with any phone that has a armv6 processor. Thus Google filters out your app, and does not even make it visible in the Play Store.
We have just discovered this fact, after spending months developing our app, and publishing it, only to find that it is invisible to a large section of our market.
Corona dropped support for android armv6 phones sometime last year (on the grounds that an armv6 processor doesn’t run fast enough). They kept this pretty quiet, and they still boast that they have great cross platform capability.
It looks like we are going to have to start all over again with another development system.
So there you are. If you want your app to be available to andoid phone users who don’t change their phone every year, forget Corona, and use another product to develop your app.
Firstly Corona Labs dropped Armv6 support back in 2011 (http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/14497-last-armv6-daily-build/) - perhaps you should have done a little more research before deciding on Corona as your framework if that is so important to you.
Secondly this isnt just Corona - Apple has dropped support for that set (from Xcode 4 onwards); other frameworks such as Unity (version 4 onwards) have done the same.
Thirdly if you take a look at the most popular Android devices (http://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-phones), the current Top 10 is dominated by devices that run the Armv7 set. I haven’t spent too long, but I’m pretty certain the vast majority of the Top 10 there run the Arm v7 instruction set,.
As a personal opinion this is Google (and Google’s hardware partner’s fault) - how can the industry move forwards (we are a technological industry) when relic devices are still sold? I’d much rather Corona advanced the framework forwards and to do that they don’t have to worry about the horribly inefficient, trashy processors that support a seriously outdated instruction set.
If you were making these comments in early 2012 I might have a little sympathy, but c’mon it’s mid 2013, do you want support for Symbian?
You are absolutely right. I have ask the question to find a way and ideas for me and the rest of the community to place and give your app in PlayStore better ranking and I’m not interested how I can do things better with another SDK. Corona is my choose and I have non reason to change my SDK for the moment. So russ9 thanks for your input but please try to keep your personal thinking for you and help us to bring better results with the ranking in the google play store.
According to Mozilla in Nov 2012, “roughly half of the nearly 500 million Android phones in use today run on ARMv6 architecture.”
See the link below where details of their new support for armv6 phones was reported.
It would appear that Corona has excluded 250 million phone users from apps developed in Corona.
So this is not just my personal thinking.
you can promote it with forums, blogs , reviews on youtube. I would start writing playandroid or droidgamers. com about your game. droidgamers has also a forum post a thread about your game with screenshots and videos etc… and a description and a link…
Thanks Martin, very use full links.
Michael
Take advantage of the Description you write for your app. Unlike iOS, Android’s search feature takes into account words that are in your app’s description (much like how Google search works). What I do is come up with a good list of what I think strong keywords/phrases are for my type of app, then formulate a description that repeats these words/phrases throughout (but at the same time make it reasonable to read).
Well thats a very good idea but we have to be sure that google will not cancel the description. I have modify my text a little bit and will see whats happening…
THX
Yeah, the key is to make the description sound natural, but at the same time utilize those strong keywords throughout it.
Are you aware that your app won’t even appear in the Play Store if your users phone uses an armv6 processor. I.e android phones that are a bit over a year old.
This is because when you build your app in Corona, Corona puts an entry in the Manifest that tells Google that your app is incompatible with any phone that has a armv6 processor. Thus Google filters out your app, and does not even make it visible in the Play Store.
We have just discovered this fact, after spending months developing our app, and publishing it, only to find that it is invisible to a large section of our market.
Corona dropped support for android armv6 phones sometime last year (on the grounds that an armv6 processor doesn’t run fast enough). They kept this pretty quiet, and they still boast that they have great cross platform capability.
It looks like we are going to have to start all over again with another development system.
So there you are. If you want your app to be available to andoid phone users who don’t change their phone every year, forget Corona, and use another product to develop your app.
Firstly Corona Labs dropped Armv6 support back in 2011 (http://forums.coronalabs.com/topic/14497-last-armv6-daily-build/) - perhaps you should have done a little more research before deciding on Corona as your framework if that is so important to you.
Secondly this isnt just Corona - Apple has dropped support for that set (from Xcode 4 onwards); other frameworks such as Unity (version 4 onwards) have done the same.
Thirdly if you take a look at the most popular Android devices (http://www.appbrain.com/stats/top-android-phones), the current Top 10 is dominated by devices that run the Armv7 set. I haven’t spent too long, but I’m pretty certain the vast majority of the Top 10 there run the Arm v7 instruction set,.
As a personal opinion this is Google (and Google’s hardware partner’s fault) - how can the industry move forwards (we are a technological industry) when relic devices are still sold? I’d much rather Corona advanced the framework forwards and to do that they don’t have to worry about the horribly inefficient, trashy processors that support a seriously outdated instruction set.
If you were making these comments in early 2012 I might have a little sympathy, but c’mon it’s mid 2013, do you want support for Symbian?
You are absolutely right. I have ask the question to find a way and ideas for me and the rest of the community to place and give your app in PlayStore better ranking and I’m not interested how I can do things better with another SDK. Corona is my choose and I have non reason to change my SDK for the moment. So russ9 thanks for your input but please try to keep your personal thinking for you and help us to bring better results with the ranking in the google play store.
According to Mozilla in Nov 2012, “roughly half of the nearly 500 million Android phones in use today run on ARMv6 architecture.”
See the link below where details of their new support for armv6 phones was reported.
It would appear that Corona has excluded 250 million phone users from apps developed in Corona.
So this is not just my personal thinking.