This is my 3k post, ding. I would have waited longer until I could report the actual results and whether or not it was successful, but I'm a WFag addict and I like to post.
I've always wanted to build an app but the idea was on the back-burner forever. My daughter is 2.5 yrs old and she likes to play with a few crappy ABC apps. She likes them of course, but I thought I could do better than what she was playing with (the top apps in the ABC niche on Android) so I decided to take the plunge.
The top ABC app on android is stated as having between 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 lite version installs, and 10,000 to 50,000 paid version installs at $3.99. I thought perhaps I could get a piece of the pie, naive of me considering my short attention span when it comes to personal projects.
I installed eclipse, read a few basic android dev tutorials, and got to work about 10 days ago. The design is the easy part for me, but learning how android works along with eclipse & java took a lot of google'ing but eventually I made it work.
The app is called ABC Blast for Toddlers. <-Link to the "Lite" version on Google Play. Those of you with android devices, d/l it and let me know if there's any issues (rate it too!). The lite version has letters A-J, full version releases all. The main competitor app does roughly the same thing.
Here's a vid I created with my wife's voice over and my kid playing with it:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZLKMOWKGU"]ABC Blast for Toddlers by MoBoing - YouTube[/ame]
I noticed there are 250+ ABC apps in the android market. Now that my app has been live for 24 hours, I'm quickly realizing there's a parallel to how google ranks apps and websites based on kw's. This is something I'll need to learn more about.
I hit up a few paid app review sites and I have a few other ideas for promotion. I'll update this thread to let you fuckers know how it goes. I did accomplish a certain goal and learned a fuckton.
edit, lol @ the 1 and only current review.
I've always wanted to build an app but the idea was on the back-burner forever. My daughter is 2.5 yrs old and she likes to play with a few crappy ABC apps. She likes them of course, but I thought I could do better than what she was playing with (the top apps in the ABC niche on Android) so I decided to take the plunge.
The top ABC app on android is stated as having between 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 lite version installs, and 10,000 to 50,000 paid version installs at $3.99. I thought perhaps I could get a piece of the pie, naive of me considering my short attention span when it comes to personal projects.
I installed eclipse, read a few basic android dev tutorials, and got to work about 10 days ago. The design is the easy part for me, but learning how android works along with eclipse & java took a lot of google'ing but eventually I made it work.
The app is called ABC Blast for Toddlers. <-Link to the "Lite" version on Google Play. Those of you with android devices, d/l it and let me know if there's any issues (rate it too!). The lite version has letters A-J, full version releases all. The main competitor app does roughly the same thing.
Here's a vid I created with my wife's voice over and my kid playing with it:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZLKMOWKGU"]ABC Blast for Toddlers by MoBoing - YouTube[/ame]
I noticed there are 250+ ABC apps in the android market. Now that my app has been live for 24 hours, I'm quickly realizing there's a parallel to how google ranks apps and websites based on kw's. This is something I'll need to learn more about.
I hit up a few paid app review sites and I have a few other ideas for promotion. I'll update this thread to let you fuckers know how it goes. I did accomplish a certain goal and learned a fuckton.
edit, lol @ the 1 and only current review.
