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Really appreciate everyone that contributed so far... You're a problem solver

Appslayer:
Development of the App is not tasky like getting user engagements.
However a newly develop App is just like finishing NYSC which you just begin a journey of competing with millions of job seekers (billions of Apps ) to get discovered.
Am not an advocate of fb ads but one thing is to sponsor ad, another thing is to know the right Audience to target.
ie you have to target users who are interested in what your App does and the country that will get them engage.
That's not even the case because to me fb ads don't convert like Play Store app Marketing.
But the best and the most recommended Strategy to get astonishing users download organically is App Store optimization kindly lay your hands on YouTube videos to get your way around it, sites like Appannie give you insight on precise keywords users are searching for, search volume and suggestion on the best keywords.

However ensure your App solve a particular problem. Because no matter the ASO you do or the sponsor ad you spend money on, a single bad review is enough to drop your app ranking If your app is useless

Thanks man... Really appreciate

paulnewplay:
you just attacked me like police dog and tear me to pieces bf i land. Abeg take it easy.
I've bought stuff online once and it was with a usd based card i got from zenith bank. This was in 2011 so i was thinking if google play requires dollar card or paypal to pay for d account. Such info i cant get online no matter how i "research". 2) for receiving paymnt i am wondering if i hav to hav a dorm or is dom account. And valid govt issued id,again i dont know so i ask? Cant get this info online anywhere so i ask here.

3) i want to make money at least something that can pay d bills. Yeah,i will also b doing what i love but my primary motivation is money,love comes nxt. If no pepper in it,i may still learn it cuz i'm curious about coding but it will b much later. I am upfront about wanting to make money, y do you and others hav an issue with that? Anyway ... Thanks for responding. Will try and create an account with my naira card bf i wack that N15k wey dey dia? The paymnt will seal my commitmnt

Drop your number, I'll call you instead

People keep shouting, be an entrepreneur, be your own boss, be this, be that...

I develop Android apps and I just felt like, let me push this app to the general public and it just seems like I'm missing something.

The development was by far the easiest part, you see the part where you start marketing your app, its 3x more complex than the development of the app itself.

3 good weeks, 4 downloads, nice figures... I've been lazy tho but at least, my app ain't that bad, and yes, I run Facebook ads and that's what I got from it, 4 downloads, maybe my budget wasn't big enough but I think 3k, asin three thousand naira should give me more than 4 downloads.

Now I'm asking this question, how do you'll advertise a new app with low budget and getting maximum results?

paulnewplay:
you post question on facebook but go to twitter to get the replies! My nokia phone is 2012 edition. Android don expire for my phone tey tey! I cant get on whatsap even if my life depended on it and i no get money for new phone. If you wanna help u post ur replies here.

Jesus, are you for real? You don't own an Android and you want to be a developer? Look at the manner you replied... I'm disappointed

Bro, even if I answer your questions, you'll need to do research on your own, people don't usually have time for this kind of questions

1. Its easy to learn, and you don't necessarily need maths, it all depends on what you're trying to build, I've been an Android dev for 3 years now and the calculations I've done are the simple ones... Maybe I'm just avoiding projects that require complex calculations lol

2. This question is weakening lol, well I can proudly say I learnt Java and Android programming on my own, its faster if you learn from an expert tho... Computer school? I can't answer that

3. Bro, forgerrit

4. Don't ask this question biko, people won't take you serious... Just do what you love, that's the main thing, I know both, I do Android

5..... No comment

6. Bro Like you've never used your ATM to pay online before?

7. This one thinks this thing is Yahoo, lol...

8. Yes you can make a living with it... But with these questions... Not a good start

9. Nah, I don't have any single material, even if I have... Do research bro, nobody get time

And biko, its Mobile development or developer... Not phone programming

First of, your question are too discouraging to answer, its like you didn't even conduct any research before coming here to rant... Chill, let me try and read this and give you an answer

pol23:
Noted.
Another question for your lordship: I heard there's a server that the App will be running on ,Where it will be querying database and its storage... And also that it attract a monthly charges and it can be more than I might earn through google Adsense..

Well, I can't properly answer this question however here is my say...

You mentioned that you're a web developer so bandwidth, CPU usage shouldn't be new to you... Let's take it step by step, how many players do you plan having? How often is the server being accessed when playing the game....

Example, android game pes 19 is an online game, data is being exchanged before actual gameplay and after gameplay, which means during the gameplay, no data is exchanged... You can even switch off your data

Dream league online is also an online game too, data is being exchanged during gameplay, this one is harder to archive than the previous example, why? You'll require your players to have fast Internet service, you won't be able to use shared server at all or any low budget server because you need speed and ability to handle multiple requests from multiple users simultaneously

Find out how often your game is going to be communicating with the server and estimate how much the server would cost....

Again, I'm not a game developer and this isn't a professional advice, I'm just using my idea of a very simple online game I did some years ago

A firm wanted to hire me for recently, I actually turned it down. They wanted to start building games

Well, I'm basically an Android app developer, nothing more, nothing less... With my own idea, building a game requires high computing power, firstly my system can't handle it, I use 4gb 1.8ghz AMD system and I can't comman kill myself.

Secondly, don't just ask for apps they've created ,ask for recent games they did, game and app are different things, don't be surprised if neither of them can even do what you actually want

Thirdly, game development isn't a one man job, it depends on the kind of game you're thinking of tho... If you're planning a big game, you'll prolly need bigger crew... Ask those guys if they will be building it themselves or they have a team

asalimpo:
So ... Ppl come to NL to create a thread then go to whatsap? Shouldnt NL take a cue from this n create a group?

Lol, my own reply was off topic, I needed his number based on another thing entirely, I just saw his moniker and decide to mention him

stanliwise:
I noticed that many php coder I see around do nothing more than procedural languages. please hop in here and let us ask ourselves questions on concepts of OOP and problems we experience while using this paradigm.

RULES: Please we speak of oop php concepts which are pretty advance concepts. We do not teach php as a language. If you don't know about php, please Google research about php or learn from somewhere else.
This thread is for intermediate and advance php coders that are willing to improve their skill.

LET THE QUESTIONS IN!!

Contact me on WhatsApp 08104422662 thanks man

Legolast:
Good job bro
I have a playstore account, I will be glad to help

Please do drop your number, I want to contact you directly

I don't want it to look common, so I added a little spice where you can download latest songs... Its connected directly to a popular music blog

stanliwise:
very nice. you did it with java right??

Exactly

stanliwise:
nice one. how long did it take you??

I started mid January, so that's roughly 2months

Go on and download, its roughly 4mb

So biko... I need to get this on playstore, thanks

And please rate here when you download

I officially started this project roughly 2 months ago and I've compiled version1

It does not yet have playlist feature and the reason I didn't add the playlist feature is because of time... I'm a student returning back to school and its almost impossible to mix programming and studies in my school

No one should comman intimidate me oh, this is actually the most simplest app I've done, so no one should say its just a music player.

Nairalanders, biko I need a favor, I do not have a playstore account, if you have a playstore account that has space for my app, please quote me biko, thanks a bunch.

Right now, the app is available via this link

https://pee.ng/jRO8m

Olalekank:
I see you find the fact that using machine learning on nairaland funny. I was actually the one who made the comment. If someone had told Facebook Facebook to use machine learning in 2005, you probably could have just laughed this same way.

Can you tell me what you find amusing about using machine learning on nairaland?

Did you actually read the "use" of machine learning that I stated?

Nah, I skipped, lmao, a forum that didn't even update its emoji

All of you should just calm down, someone said machine learning on a forum lol

What if he actually built this forum from scratch and didn't comment his codes, lmao, he can't modify shii

Y'all should just visit the forum in peace and mind your business, pikin whey no fine, seun like am like that.

On the other hand, some of you saying if its not broken bla bla bla, have you all seen the new messenger app? Compare it with the old one, was the old one broken?

Because its working doesn't mean it can't be improved...

Buh right now, y'all have no control over the affairs of nairaland, you're not even share holders, or board members, you're just registered members lolzzzzzz

Ilamina:
What do you mean

She definitely was born dumb lol

To any Android Dev seeing this, I just discovered something interesting, I'm currently working on a music player and anytime I work on something, I often compare it with lots of successful similar apps, e.g boomplay

Now you would definitely have boomplay on your mobile and one thing I noticed about boomplay is that, no matter how much you clear recent apps, the notification controller won't just leave, which means it doesn't get destroyed by the OS.

I actually just found what they did, AudioManager.onAudioFocusChangedListner is all they implemented on their audio player service, and that's all, as long as you have it listening to audio focus changes, audio service will never get destroyed except it is manually destroyed....

As a matter of fact, every other music player I have gets destroyed when all recent apps are cleared, Bug or feature? Or I'm just using useless music players ? );

Foodforthought:
I don't need to rant. Apart from Barca no Spanish side can defeat City or Liverpool. I mean it

I love city buh atletico Madrid will beat them, just come to the pitch with restless strong guys, good with counter attacks and you'll beat city

That's android 3

Actually I don't see any reason why an introvert should feel bad about how he is.... I'm an introvert as well and when people say, hey, you're slow, you proud, you're too gentle, you're this your that, say this to me and I'll just ignore you. At this point of my life, if you complain about my personality, just leave me and go find your type elsewhere.

I don't even know if I have friends or not, I just know I have people I am comfortable with, both guys and girls and I'm cool and enjoying my life that way.

Na jokers just full this thread

I develop insane Android apps too 08104422662 WhatsApp for past insane projects

Frankicent:
na you sabi.... Someone is feeling Lqzy and you saying it's not my passion .. nawa oo

I swear bro its not your calling... You wanna know why?

I develop Android apps and make digital painting with Photoshop

While I can use 8hours straight up without even leaving the system just writing codes, I can't use 2 hours editing a picture, it would feel as if I'm about to die of boredom, 2018, I totally stopped collecting photo editing jobs while I always love to code.... Its easy to say I have passion for coding while I don't in the case of photo editing

I always get paid but interest ain't much, its between 10% to 16% monthly, very very small but their payment is steady sha, and fast

120% monthly and you said you're not ponzi