Friday, 6 April 2012

Make Money Selling Android Apps

There are ways to make money selling Android apps, the relatively new operating system for mobile devices. Strictly speaking, it is not an operating system, but rather a software stack. However, it behaves in much the same way as an operating system does, and applications written specially for this platform can be extremely popular.

If you are not a developer able to write Android apps directly, you can still make money selling Android apps by paying a developer to do it for you. In fact, most of the popular Android apps have been created this way by freelancers providing a service.

The first thing you need to consider is what kind of Android app do you want to create? Currently, they range from the really useful to the head scratching ridiculous. Some may not be very useful, but they are still popular.

For example, the iFartMobile isn't very useful, but it's extremely popular. Considering that it sells at just 99 cents and has reportedly made its creator up to an incredible $30,000 in just one day, Christmas Day 2008, and averaged $10,000 a day at other times, it is certainly a very good Android app to own, despite its unusual name.

You could have a game developed for you. Games are always popular, and if you strike it lucky with a game that really takes off, you will do very well indeed and make a lot of money selling Android apps.

A gentleman called Steve Demeter did just that when he developed an Android app called Trism. Trism is a game that is very similar to Bejeweled, the popular puzzle game. Because there were already many devoted players of Bejeweled, they took to Trism easily, which sealed its popularity and made money for its creator.

You really have to start thinking outside of the box, so to speak, to come up with an idea that is truly original and likely to be popular. It can be whacky, like iFartMobile, addictive game playing, like Trism, or just plain useful like the Android app developed by Konrad Huebner that he called cab4me.

Cab4me utilizes GPS capabilities and lets you call a cab that will come to your exact location all from a single click. This is obviously useful for people out for a night who find themselves somewhere late at night and just want to go home. One click gets a cab without their fuddled mind having to work out anything else.

You can definitely make money selling Android apps if you can come up with something as useful as that, but it doesn't have to be that good, just good enough that people will be willing to pay for it. And one other good thing, it doesn't have to do anything, for you can give your app away and make money in other clever ways.

One way that some developers have found to be successful is to develop an Android app that is useful in some small way that people are unlikely to be willing to pay for, but will accept for free. The way they make money from doing this is to have advertising in the app. This is not, strictly speaking, a way to make money selling Android apps, but it works.


source: howtomakemoneyfast

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