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Side Project Time Hacks – Automated Android App Screenshots

May 8, 2020

Android Tutorials, Side Project Time Hacks

In today’s Side Project Time Hack post, I’m covering how I’ve automated the process of taking new store listing screenshots for my Android apps and showing how much time the automation saves me. Across everything involved in developing and maintaining a mobile app, I challenge you to find a task more tedious than keeping the store listing screenshots up to date. Screenshots are among the best tools you have to convince potential new users to click ‘Download’ on…

How and Why You Should Prepare Your Apps for an AdSense Ban

January 19, 2020

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Sudden bannings on AdSense – how it happened to me, how it can happen to you too, and how you can prepare your projects for it. AdSense is one of Google’s flagship products and is a massive advertising network that allows online publishers to monetize their projects by serving ads on their content. AdSense can be used by website and blog maintainers, app developers (with AdMob – which sits on top of AdSense), and even YouTubers to make a…

100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers

January 24, 2019

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100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers Last month I reached a significant milestone for my Android portfolio by surpassing 100k app downloads across my Google Play account. I’ve been publishing Android apps to the Play Store since 2015 and working on Android projects since 2014 – giving me nearly 5 years of experience with the platform. The milestone got me thinking about my early projects and how awful they were, along with all the lessons I…

How to View Total App Installs Count on Google Play 2020

November 6, 2018

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How to View Total App Install Count on Google Play 2020 Note: This post was originally published 11-6-2018, but has since been updated for 2020. Preface Perhaps the most basic statistic that app developers track about their projects is their cumulative lifetime installs over time. In other words, how many unique installs has an app received throughout it’s lifetime on the app store? For Android apps published on Google Play, this metric used to be fairly easy…

What I Learned From Redesigning My App’s Feature Graphic

June 30, 2018

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What I Learned From Redesigning My App’s Feature Graphic I’ve mentioned this before in previous blog posts, but I’ve had to wear a lot of different hats in my past few years of personal app development work. Sometimes one of those hats happens to be “graphic designer” – which is one of my least developed skills in my app development arsenal. At the end of the day, I’m just a programmer with a mediocre knowledge of GIMP keyboard shortcuts.…

3rd Party App Store Alternatives for Google Play and Why to Use Them

May 23, 2018

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3rd Party App Store Alternatives for Google Play and Why to Use Them Using a 3rd party app store can be beneficial whether you are an Android app developer or you just own an Android device and want to get the most out of it. I’ve compiled a list of some of the most popular 3rd party app stores out there, but before we dive into the list I wanted to lay out some reasons why you may want…