Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote: I personally like the short descriptions - it forces you to think about what your app really does/how it is useful It also forces you to omit key features and butcher the English language to make the most of

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Chris Stewart
Yeah, I couldn't agree more TreKing. I just can't get past not having more than 3 full tweets to describe a product I want people to pay for. It has proven to be very difficult for me as I'm constantly adding features to my football app. I like the idea of Read More, simply because it keeps the

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Agreed. It would be great if the developer could maintain a per-application changelog accessible via Market. That would make the description just that - a description of what the app is about. The changelog could be brought up by a UI element, the way user feedback is now. I know that

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Natalie Hooper
A more button would work but I still don't think 325 characters is limiting. There is no need to butcher the English language, you can express what your app does in two or three straight to the point sentences without taking any grammatical shortcut. If you can't, get somebody else to write the

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread TreKing
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Natalie Hooper nataliehoo...@virginmedia.com wrote: A more button would work but I still don't think 325 characters is limiting. If you don't think so, I don't think your app is very complicated. There is no need to butcher the English language, you can

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
Right. The limit is even more restrictive if you consider other languages. Russian tends to need more words and characters than English, and that's just how this language is, not because I am having difficulties with it :) German or Scandinavian languages seem to need more, as well, although

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-19 Thread Jonas Petersson
On 08/19/2010 10:28 PM, Kostya Vasilyev wrote: The limit is even more restrictive if you consider other languages. Russian tends to need more words and characters than English, and that's just how this language is, not because I am having difficulties with it :) German or Scandinavian

Re: [android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-18 Thread Natalie Hooper
Your experience sounds quite similar to mine actually, particularly regarding AdMob (I once spent what seemed like 1 hour looking for their SDK on their website!). I personally like the short descriptions - it forces you to think about what your app really does/how it is useful and as a user,

[android-developers] Paid vs Free, My Early Experience

2010-08-13 Thread Chris Stewart
I sat down and wrote a little bit on my early experiences in Android development, and publishing. I thought someone here may be interested to read it. http://chriswstewart.com/2010/08/13/paid-vs-free-my-early-experience/ I’ve just recently submitted my first applications to the Android Market