Getting Your Android App Noticed: A Comprehensive Guide

by Stephen Jones

We’ve all been there before. You spent countless hours brainstorming, designing, coding, and debugging an app. When it was finally ready, you submitted it to the Google Play store and crossed your fingers for downloads. A few weeks go by, and you’ve only got a few dozen active users. It’s a great app, so where did you go wrong? How can you get word out?
This situation is something that nearly every developer faces at some point, but it is not the end of the road for your app! As of 2014, there are over 1.3 million apps available for download in Google Play, and experts estimate that over half of the total revenue generated goes to only 0.1% of the apps available. Knowing that, it’s amazing the few dozen users you got managed to find it! This comprehensive guide will provide you with solutions for modifying and marketing your app to achieve maximum downloads with minimum cost and effort, and elaborate on the many pitfalls along the way. In many cases, you can get massive amounts of downloads without spending a dime. Ready to increase your bottom line? Let’s go.

27 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 29, 2015