A few questions to summarize the thoughts and feelings of developing Android apps on Google Play
- Why choose to develop App in Google play
- How to list the app? What problems should be paid attention to in the process of developer account application and listing
- Why should I develop my own app
- My summary and feelings after more than one month of going online
- Apps to be developed later
Why choose to develop App in Google play
There are many reasons why I only develop apps on Google Play. There are too many domestic app markets. It is really troublesome to upload, and I don't know the rules. I believe in Google in this regard. Google Play has a complete set of models. Developers can profit from it better, admob advertising is profitable, I found that foreign users do not want domestic users to reject advertising, as long as your app has good functions and is powerful enough, don’t put some interstitial ads. Users actually don’t care that much about the application. I don’t know how to charge for domestic advertisements without ads. According to my application data, admob sees that 1,000 impressions are between US$1 and US$2. Clicks and impressions are counted together. Second, Google has Firebase for application analysis. Google provides a comprehensive service!
Google Play's search algorithm is smarter, and it makes the apps that users prefer to rank higher in the search rankings, which is one of the reasons why I like it. More importantly, domestic mobile phones are more fragmented, although foreign users use Xiaomi's mobile phone more than Huawei's mobile phone. There are many, but I don’t think about the domestic fragmentation, which is difficult to adapt. There is also the application policy. Compared with the domestic application policy, Google Play’s application policy is more relaxed. The last one is that I like Google’s products. I am already a fan.
How to list the app? What problems should be paid attention to in the process of developer account application and listing
If you want to launch an app, you must have a developer account, Apple's developer account 99
At the beginning, my application submission was rejected many times, and one of them was also removed from the store. There are some mistakes that are easy to make. Let me briefly mention: When uploading an application, you need to fill in the application description. Google clearly stipulates that the description cannot contain irrelevant keywords, and must These keywords such as facebook, snapchat, etc. that can increase search volume are called metadata policies, and they cannot be included in the screenshots of the application. After writing, they may be fooled for the first time, but there is always a risk of being discovered. Be careful! Secondly, there are functions that must comply with the policy. For example, other applications cannot be promoted in the notification bar, and copyrighted content cannot be downloaded. If the impact is serious, it will definitely be taken off the shelf. After taking off the shelf, you can choose to appeal. I have successfully appealed several times, but the appeal If it is unsuccessful, you need to change the package name and upload it again. Obviously, it is no longer the previous application. The user's downloads and ratings are gone, and there is no ranking. The pain! The most important point is not to plagiarize. Once Google finds that you completely plagiarize other applications, it will immediately remove the account. If the account is severe, it will be very serious. It is said that many partners will be detected by Google and will not be allowed to register again. , Google's technology is so powerful, it's better not to do things in front of it! After it's on the shelves, you can't search for the name of the app directly, and it will take a few days for the search ranking to be searchable.
Why should I develop my own app
This question can be said that I wanted to do it when I was in college three years ago, and then played an hour of dota to learn Android for 10 minutes, so it was best to leave it alone and make no progress. After graduation, I made up my mind to learn Android by myself and found a job. I started working on Android, I started to upgrade my skills, I gradually learned how to develop an app, I have some ideas of my own, and I also have relevant technical support. What to do is the main problem. I started to browse the rankings on Google Play every day. What kind of application? Look at their user reviews. At first, I wanted to make a video editing application and a cleaning app. I introduced an idea in the middle of the public account and some developers have already made it and have a lot of downloads. There are nearly 10 million downloads, the introduction is an instagram download software, and some tips on how to find needs, at this time, the idea in my heart is that although I am developing software, I always feel that there are many rules in the Internet I don't know how to play and how to play, but it's not as searchable as technical problems. I'm eager to know and want to know. The one he introduced gave me a sense of understanding. By searching on Google play, I know other similar The software downloads are also good, and the public account is unknown. Later, it opened a Xiaomi circle called Shengcaiyoushu, and I also joined.
With such an idea, I immediately started to act. Since I can download instagram videos, what about other well-known apps such as facebook, twitter, tumblr and other software, so I made an app that can download these software videos, in During this process, I found some excellent software similar to all video download apps, such as snaptube, vidmate, videoder, they have achieved 100 million downloads, oh my god! Some people say that it is the hardest thing to do it when you don’t know if the idea can be realized. Now, the predecessors have paved the way. Now all you have to do is take action. I have some ideas in my heart that I want to put into practice. After all, the most important thing is the implementation of the practice. Now that I have the technology myself, I can realize my ideas without much help. Secondly, I think that the technology must be applied, or it is all theory and solution. The problem is the most important, and in the process of product development, users will communicate with you to evaluate your product, so that I will know a little idea of the general public, be close to users, and what I do is in line with my goals, I think Be an independent developer, have your own specialties, have your own products, have your own users, and have your own source of income. Among them, making products is what I am most interested in. Through continuous optimization and continuous improvement, I will do one thing well and learn from me. The biggest application of the technology I received, when the product was launched, when I received an evaluation from an Indian user or an Arab user, I found: This thing is really cool! In the 2 years I have been working on Android, I have also watched relevant news every day, such as market analysis. Within the scope of what I can do, I have come to the realization that there is still a lot of dividends in making international applications, and many countries still have There is a huge demand for applications. I can't do very large and high-tech apps such as live broadcast, news, and social networking. I make some small tools and small apps, such as video downloader, MP3 video conversion, there is one that does The flash app can achieve 500 million downloads. I can't do that much and achieve 10 million. In fact, it is very good for me or a small team. This is my current understanding! And I am practicing.
My summary and feelings after more than one month of going online
Now the product has been online for more than a month, and with some data, from 10 to 100 new users per day, now 2,000 new users are added every day and in the process of rising, it will definitely exceed 100,000 downloads in another month. I get excited when I think about it. Of course, I want to sort out the goal a little bigger: 100 million downloads. I have done a lot of things to promote new additions, first of all, simple aso optimization, why simple, because cool and complex aso I haven't understood haha, but I know there is. Secondly, beautiful application screenshots, most developers don’t know how to ps, so it is difficult to know beautiful screenshots, including logo design, etc., then I recommend two websites to do these, one is Alibaba vector icon library , you can search for pictures here as logos, or you can make some simple changes in ps. Theapplaunchpad website can make beautiful application screenshots, which are very customizable, and you can record an application introduction or how to use a video, then I What I do is a tool application, it is necessary to record a video of how to use it, and there is translation, as much as possible into the language of each country, here I use Google Translate, because the app I make uses as many pictures as possible, and less Use words so that people in different languages can understand what it means. In addition to the internationalization of the application, the screenshots of the application and the description of the application should also be internationalized. I have translated more than 100 languages in one go, and of course they are all copied. Go to Google Translate and paste it back, you can really see what is wrong and change it. Of course, it is best to hire a professional translation agency to translate, but now you can only translate it yourself.
After the superficial work is done, in fact, the most important thing is that your application is better. Of course, the superficial work must also be done. In addition to the technology, you need to analyze the competitors' products of the same kind and check their user reviews. , Let's see what the user complains about this product, can I realize it, it doesn't have the function but I can complete what the user needs, here is an example, what I do is video download, then the video download of vimeo is more difficult, When loading a vimeo web page, its video address will not be returned. If there is no video address, I will not be able to download it, but those powerful software can be downloaded, and those developed by individual developers cannot be downloaded. After this problem, I will find a way to achieve it. I would like to thank a little friend of mine—> Hei Zhuo, I asked him to help me write a js to complete this function, because there are not many personal developers who can understand android. , Then this small function is stronger than other applications, and it kills the application for vimeo video download in seconds. In addition to functions, there are also many other aspects. For example, the App interface of such a gadget is very ugly. Although I can't achieve a perfect experience of various animation effects, I can at least make it regular, it is more comfortable to use, and the experience is relatively good. Then slowly optimize, focus on one function and one point to do the best, in short, a little bit of optimization, the downloads and new increments of the application will increase.
Apps to be developed later
- I want to develop a music video converter, because I have used ffmpeg in the work process, I will use some of his commands, it is dedicated to media conversion
If I want to make a cleaning app, there are already many successful cleaning software in the market, such as Cheetah Clean Master, Power Cleaner, Super Cleaner and many other excellent cleaning software, but I find that users still have great demand for this function. If they do some differentiation, there will still be traffic.
The above two will be done in the near future, and the existing ones must be maintained continuously. If they are to be done, they must be done well. It is impossible to finish them in one day or two days. It is estimated that it will take a long time to do the above.
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