Ii 1500-publishing your android application

Publishing your Android application

Presented by

Adrian Mikeliunas

Adrian@Mikeliunas.com

TASKMobileSolutions.com


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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 30% Cut!
 www.amazon.com/mobile-apps/b?node=2350149011

 apps.opera.com

 www.getjar.com

 www.appbrain.com

 Many foreign markets…

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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

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There is an app for every need…

Source: 148Apps.biz, iTunes App Store (iOS), updated 2012-03-26

Application categories as percentage of the number of iOS apps


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
Online tools to build the
Graphical User Interface (GUI)

 www.mobjectify.com

 www.fluidui.com

 www.droiddraw.org

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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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