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Garage Buddy

Adding AdMob Support. Garage Buddy. Who am I?. Not much of a presentation wiz Currently a programmer at Turtle Rock studios  7 years of experience in game development for PCs and console Garage Buddy was my first Android application  Garage Buddy was also my first Java application

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Garage Buddy

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  1. Adding AdMob Support Garage Buddy

  2. Who am I? • Not much of a presentation wiz • Currently a programmer at Turtle Rock studios •  7 years of experience in game development for PCs and console • Garage Buddy was my first Android application  • Garage Buddy was also my first Java application • email: brock@non-euclidian.net

  3. What is Garage Buddy? • Free version available – play along at home! • It is a multi-tool app for people that work on cars • Has various calculators and tables • We have both iOS and Android versions  • Originally written for iOS

  4. What is AdMob? • Simple mobile advertising system   • Available on many platforms • Easy as heck to sign up as a publisher or advertister • Purchased by Google

  5. Why add Admob Support? • Paid version sales were stagnant (about 600 sales in 8 months) • Many regions can't buy (or even see) paid apps • Possible a way to generate revenue from regions that can't purchase paid app • Adds a way for people to “try before you buy”

  6. How I integrated Admob in to a pre-existing app • Set my app to be a “Library” • Created two new apps (“Free” and “Pro”), that reference that library • Configured the Manifests of those apps to “know” about all the activities in the library • Added AdMob library (they supply a .jar file) • Altered some of the layouts in the library to have an empty “LinearLayout” with a unique name • Wrote a utility function that can insert an AdView into a LinearLayout, based on a “isAd” global public static boolean • Added new “Application” to each project, to properly set the “isAd” variable

  7. What was the Result? • After about one week, the “Free” version had just over 1000 installs! • After about one week, we had almost a $1.00 in ad revenue (yes, one dollar) • Slight uptick in sales of the paid app • The free app is now over 4000 downloads, and has 3 ratings • The paid app has about 800 downloads, and has 23 ratings Time investment was about 8 hours • 2 hours to set up an Admob account and read the docs • 2 hours to make the project into a Lib and have 2 app projects • 4 hours to fiddle around with layouts

  8. Questions? brock@non-euclidian.net

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