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Publishing your Android application

Presented by

Adrian Mikeliunas

[email protected]

TASKMobileSolutions.com

mailto:[email protected]


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Online Resources

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Agenda

Why Publish your app?

Android SDLC

Publishing Steps Pre-work Re-compile Upload Publish


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Why Publish your App?

Android apps can be installed directly from: Web site [internal or external] Email atachment USB cable…

Example: apps.worldbank.org


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Android Stores

Play.Google.com

www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?node=2350149011

apps.opera.com

www.getjar.com

www.appbrain.com

Many foreign markets…

30% Cut!


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Android Revenue Models

Ads in application

Paid apps

Freemium

Notifications

In apps purchases

Pay per download


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Android App Research

Play.Google.com

www.distimo.com

www.visionmobile.com

There is an app for every need…

Source: 148Apps.biz, iTunes App Store (iOS), updated 2012-03-26Application categories as percentage of the number of iOS apps


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Android SDLC

SDLC = Software Development Life Cycle


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Android SDLC-2


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Android SDLC 2B


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Application Screen Prototype

www.mobjectify.com

www.fluidui.com

www.droiddraw.org

Online tools to build the Graphical User Interface (GUI)


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Publishing Your Application

Clean up work

Build Market entry Text Graphics!

Upload & Publish


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Preparing Application-Clean up-1

Choose a good package name: com.mycompanyname.myapp1 is good for the entire life

of the app [can’t be changed!]

Turn off logging & debugging Remove android:debuggable attribute from the

<application> tag in your manifest file

Clean up your project directories


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Preparing Application-Clean up-2

Review and update your manifest settings, Increment Version# Review permissions to add or delete Address compatibility issues [screen sizes] Update URLs for remote servers & services [if any!]

Compile & Test Your Application for Release Did you Register for a Maps API Key?


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Publishing Application-1

Understand Entire Process before you start! Understand Google Play Policies Test for Core App Quality

Copy Protection

Determine your app's content rating Yes, Android has an adult market as well…


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Determine country/language distribution Do you support multi-language? (localized resources in the

app) Localized app description in the Developer Console Legal requirements specific to certain countries Time zone support, local pricing, and so on…

Confirm the app's overall size (<50MB) Large apps can use the APK Expansion Files, which Google Play

will host for free on its server infrastructure

Confirm the app's platform / screens


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Set prices for your products Free or priced? In-App billing? Free apps must remain free!

Prepare store graphics, (all 24 bit PNG unless noted) Screenshots* [2!] 320w x 480h, 480w x 800h, or 480w x 854h Application Icon* 512x512, 32-bit PNG Promotional graphic: 180w x 120h Feature Graphic : 1024w x 500h Video Link (Optional) YouTube video URL

* Required


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Build and upload the release-ready APK

Click Publish! Wait 3 to 4 hours…

Start Marketing your app! Get reviews, go social!

Start supporting your app via web site or email…


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Signing Your Applications-Eclipse

Behind the scenes when you export your project from Eclipse: After you finish configuring your application you can build it into a

release-ready .apk fle that is signed and optimized. The JDK includes the tools for signing the .apk file (Keytool and Jarsigner);

Eclipse does this for your automatically…

Select File Export from the Eclipse menu If it’s the first time you will create a key to sign your app Otherwise you will enter your password to access your keyfile


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Signing Your Applications-Ant

Behind the scenes when you export your project from ant:

$ ant release

$ keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore

-alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

http://developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing.html


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Exporting Android Project-1

From Eclipse menu, Select the project you would like to export, then select from the File menu, Export

Select “Export Android Application”


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Confirm Project Name

Select Keystore


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Confirm Project Name

Enter your self-signing key and password


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Export your application to a directory you’ll remember


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Upload your apk to the Google market now!


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Q& A


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Demo-1


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Demo-2


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Demo-3


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Demo-4


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Demo-5

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