[android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-09 Thread Doug
In case people don't know this, you can create a product web site with facebook that you don't have to be a facebook member to see. You do have to have a facebook account yourself, and if someone wants to post or discuss, they have to have accounts. It's a perfectly usable place to share general

[android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-08 Thread Marcus Wolschon
On 8 Aug., 04:33, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm scaling back my website and focusing more on Facebook for now - we'll see how it goes. So what about all the people NOT on facebook? No matter how that thing is growing, the complementary group is still the majority. Oh and why oh

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-08 Thread TreKing
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Oh and why oh why oh why can't someone at Google bump up the 325 char limit? It would probably take all of 5 keystrokes to change this. I would pay good money to learn the logic that went into determining this as the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-08 Thread Core Form
If you always say its a security update then any User would be foolish not to get the update ;) :D Down side of that is Users would think you've got a track record of consistent security flaws, might think you're Adobe and not to be trusted :( On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:18 PM, TreKing

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-08 Thread Shane Isbell
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:27 PM, Marcus Wolschon marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com wrote: On 8 Aug., 04:33, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: So I'm scaling back my website and focusing more on Facebook for now - we'll see how it goes. So what about all the people NOT on facebook? No

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-07 Thread Chris Stewart
Here's my entry into an external site for my apps: http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/ While it's not the best thing in the world, it's certainly better than the Android Market descriptions. I'll toss up some screenshots and likely QA from email questions I've received recently.

[android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-07 Thread Brad
Also consider making a Facebook page. I've done this for my Zen Timer app and it's been pretty successful: http://www.facebook.com/zentimer I'm finding it more and more difficult to balance the demands of marketing + development + customer support (development is suffering - and it's the only

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-07 Thread Shane Isbell
On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Brad bradfull...@gmail.com wrote: Also consider making a Facebook page. I've done this for my Zen Timer app and it's been pretty successful: From what I've seen with AppFriend, people on Facebook are mostly sharing information about utilities, social apps and

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Stewart
Great input everyone. I'm in the process of setting something up for my main app, even if it's mostly used to provide a manual and a general QA of emails I've gotten regarding the application. How do you add a signature to your Google Groups profile? I've looked and couldn't see anything

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-06 Thread Shane Isbell
To market your app, feel free to checkout 'AppFriend for Facebook' on Android Market. It's gotten quite a bit of usage from users and from looking at the stats, some of the apps that users share get quite a few additional 'Likes' as it moves through the network. There is also a link on the app

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-06 Thread Shane Isbell
To market your app, feel free to checkout 'AppFriend for Facebook' on Android Market. It's gotten quite a bit of usage from users and from looking at the stats, some of the apps that users share get quite a few additional 'Likes' as it moves through the network. There is also a link on the app

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-06 Thread Miguel Morales
I don't think a website is the greatest way to promote your app. It's hard to turn a person browsing the internet to install an app to their phone. The barcode method makes it a bit easier, but still the conversion rate isn't that great. However, having a website is pretty necessary in my

Re: [android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-06 Thread TreKing
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Chris Stewart cstewart...@gmail.comwrote: How do you add a signature to your Google Groups profile? I've looked and couldn't see anything specific to Groups. I can add it to my Gmail signature but would like to be more specific if I can. I don't think you

[android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-05 Thread Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru)
I have one for my Radar Now! website called (strangely enough) http://www.radarnow.net The site has basic data and screen shots, a map showing where users are located, statistics about OS's and devices and a change log for versions. I also use it for some social type content, such as (my)

[android-developers] Re: Website for your app, how important do you feel it is?

2010-08-05 Thread metal mikey
It has been pointed out that there's a need for developers of Android Apps to garner trust in Users potential Users (e.g. Users must trust the developer to not abuse their private information). I believe that having a website for an App will help towards that. It shows an extra effort that the