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100k App Downloads Later: Advice for New App Developers

  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…

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How to View Total App Installs Count on Google Play 2020

  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…

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What I Learned From Redesigning My App’s Feature Graphic

  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.…

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

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…

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