Every Android developer should be paying attention to Ice Cream Sandwich, or ICS (a.k.a. Android 4.0). Unlike Honeycomb (Android 3.x), which was doomed to only run on tablets, you’ll be seeing ICS on all manner of devices on the near future.
In the not-so-distant past developers could relegate the new features and design principles to future “tablet” development, as the Honeycomb OS was strictly for tablets. However, ICS brings Android back to a single “latest version”, Continue reading
The Nook Store for Android Apps is a very promising app market. Surprisingly, though, it isn’t very well known among Android developers.
UPDATE The Nook store closed to 3rd party developers in April 2016
Welcome back for the second part of the review of the Nook Store for Android apps. Be sure to check out the Nook Store Review Part One.
This article is part of a series of reviews of Android app stores, so be sure to check out some of the other articles.
Also, some of information is for the Nook Color and Nook Tablet – I had to make a few changes to support the new Nook HD and Nook HD+ devices.
While ‘metadata’ is certainly the correct term for this information, you may not have seen it used in other app stores. The metadata for your app is all of the information that the app market needs to know to sell your app. Everything (text, images, etc.) about your app that isn’t in the .apk is metadata.
So, what data is needed in the Nook Store? Continue reading
When I finally reviewed the Nook Store for my Android apps, I was greatly surprised. The Nook universe is an island unto itself, so I wasn’t sure there would be a lot of value in porting my Android apps. Just a few days after my first app going live, I changed my mind.
Update April 2016 – The Nook Store has closed access for developers, and all 3rd party apps have been removed. Sad to see them go, although maybe my slump in sales after the first year or two wasn’t unique to me.
The popular Nook Color and Nook Tablet devices (and now Nook HD and HD+ tablets) are in the hands of millions. Barnes and Noble is embracing the digital age, and so are their customers. This is one Android tablet that you want your apps to be available for.
These consumers are interested in buying apps and books too – but not from the Android Market. Or from the Amazon Appstore or any other app market out there. They get all of their apps and books from the Nook Store. Continue reading
Getting your Android app approved for the Nook app store is a little more involved than for a number of other Android app markets.
That can be a good thing and a bad thing. It does thin out the competition, but you still need to make it through QA before your app will get downloaded.
UPDATE the Nook Store closed to 3rd party app developers in 2016
This post is about getting your app approved. Be sure to also check out my review of the Nook Store. Continue reading
After updating to Admob 4.3.1 I saw this instead of ads – “You must have AdActivity declared in AndroidManifest.xml with configChanges.”
If you’ve just updated Admob and begun using GoogleAdMobAdsSdk-4.3.1.jar, then you might have seen this as well. Luckily, this can be solved – read on.
So what does that message mean? I have declared the AdActivity in my manifest. Continue reading