Hi everybody,
I want to show you, how to make money with Android without having much knowledge about it.
I will also show you some examples in Google Play.
What do you need?
- a good app description
- promising app screenshots
- a popup at app start which begs for stars (“Help us, give us 5 stars”)
- …and onf course lot of Ads!!! (No In-App-Billing)
Take a look at the “Remote Control for TV” App from HenSoft Co.
All the three points are the only thing this app has, nothing more.
That is sufficient for over 5 Million downloads with a 4.1 rating.
If you don’t believe me, simply install the app, grab the APK (use here MyAppSharer), open it(use here e.g. dex2Jar and JDGui) and check if I am wrong.
Here are a small preview of the onClick method:
public void onClick(View view)
{
if (m.b(this, “key_vibrate”, true))
((Vibrator)getSystemService(“vibrator”)).vibrate(200L);
}
}
After you create this hard piece of work, don’t forget to add Ads,…add as much as you can, since the only goal is to earn money.
That’s all,…now you should have good earnings,…but wait…this is not enough.
Since it was so hard until here :), why not creating a new app, with the same functions, but a different UI, app screenshots and an app description.
It will take couple of hours, but you can double your earnings…
If thiswork,…create the next app and so on and so on…maybe you can try different Ad networks
You don’t believe me, just search for remote apps. You will find a bunch of them, having the “same” functionality, beging for 5 stars (“Help us, give us 5 stars”) and vibrate only, while showing ads.
You even don’t have to provide user support,…it’s great.
I tried to report these scam apps to Google, but there are still there. It seems that scaming the user is ok, as long as you don’t take money from the user (In App Billing)
I assume that this dev earns couple of hunderes,…maybe even couple of thousands dollar a day,…
It could be that you must buy votes or downloads, but with such constant earnings you can invest some money in the business
All in all I must say that it seems the best way to earn money with Android is to simply scam users.
Noone is doing sth. against it as long as the user must not pay for it.
What do you think about it? Are you still working hard on your apps or do you start scamming right now?
CU
Android Devs
PS: Sorry, I had to write it in this way, because from a honest Android Dev perspective it is a huge mess!