yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Marketing & SEO] yogi.306:
My app update release with Maaterial Design

Hello,

My app released with complete overhaul from start and Material Design.

Can you help me for increasing installs. ? its having 15 installs/per day. only :(

even though its coming at 7th on playstore search by "Simple Text Widget"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bhanu.anytextwidget
[General Marketing & SEO] elban:
let me just put down a couple ideas:

* People don't search for "simple text widget"

* I don't think they even search for "text widget"

* You don't come up on search results until you have a good number of downloads and a decent rating

* Try to get reviewed on the best news sites like xda, android central, android police etc. to fix point 3 above

* Social sites like fb and twitter only matter if you have tons of followers; still, doing it doesn't harm
[General Marketing & SEO] jacksparao:
Name change

Changing better name will improve the search result..

1 please have a look similar application like yours, name, short description, etc.. Find your self what is missing and fill the gaps.

2 Quality video and screen shots.

3 sharing in social networks.

I made a simple app, first day around 20 downloads and 100 2nd day, 3 days 300, 4th day 550, 6th days 750, All because of proper name and right description.
[General Marketing & SEO] kidgames:
Install buy

You can buy installs as well. The best place for doing it is Appbrain.

---------- Post added at 01:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:23 PM ----------

Localize it to popular languages: German, France,Italy,Spanish,Portuguese,Russian.

And distribute to alternative markets.
[General Marketing & SEO] petazetas:
Hi,

Great tips here :)

I can share with you a community to get real reviews for your apps.

This will help your app rank higher in the main app stores.

The community is http://reviewsmotion.com/, and it is a rating exchange platform.

And it is free!!

I hope this helps :)
[General Marketing & SEO] poman01:
thanks for tips.
[General Marketing & SEO] GarrettThalamus:
- Blogs

- Directories

- App Store Optimization

- PR

- Partnerships

- Cross promotion (might need more users for this)

- Working with CPI Networks (could be good to run an incent campaign first to climb the charts and see how many organic installs you get)

- Organic Sharing/Inviting
[General Marketing & SEO] Mobilock:
Mobile App Promotion

Hello,

You can promote your mobile app in Facebook groups, LinkedIn Groups and Google Plus communities. You can also do some review posting for your mobile app.

Cheers!
[General Marketing & SEO] anonify:
Now that google lets you create promotions, sharing promo codes is a good way to drive traffic to an app. I've started using https://rideem.io to share links on forums with codes for my app. Later on I'll probably integrate the code retrieval inside my app using their android client lib.
[General Marketing & SEO] MeshBean:
Mobile Advertising

Hello there, Meshbean offers you incent traffic, you can check it out on their website: meshbean.com

FYI they also offer a marketing place for you to list your app for free.

Cheers,
[General Marketing & SEO] Yalos-Dev:
Hello!

Does anybody here has any recent successful experiences with paid app reviews? Our development team has recently launched our app as an international English-based version and invested quite a bit of $$ into several paid reviews. Of course we tried to chose websites with a good number of visitors and high ratings and the app received good ratings from the reviewers. But the results were totally disappointing... only one of them brought a slight raise of downloads for a short period of time but the number was so insignificant that it's not really worth to speak about it. This situation was really surprising for us because when we started, we first launched a local version of the app and a single review on a local Russian website brought a really big burst of the downloads so we were expecting at least similar results from an international ressource :confused:
[General Marketing & SEO] TreffyCat:
Thanks for tips, it is very helpfull
[General Marketing & SEO] chiragpatel:
Application promotion

You can promote your application through different play stores, different app review websites, exchange review , SMO, offline promotion etc.
[General Marketing & SEO] Ryan.T.Student:
All this spam.. x offers instant promotion.. thing is it may boost SEO rank, or it may not, but this is all posting stuff to places no humans actually visit. Get your app talked about by the right people. Talk to people for whom your app solves a problem.

Note that if your app looks like garbage, no matter what promotion you do you'll not get significant downloads.
[General Marketing & SEO] elban:
remember that app search results are influenced by google+ friends activity, so you should check it from a clean account.
[General Marketing & SEO] KevinGreen:
Oh, i just want to know if ASO strategy should be changed? Does the order Google Play list apps/games changes after time. I know that they based on total installs, ratings, backlink.... but don't know if it's still right up-to-now
[General Marketing & SEO] lama.android:
I am currently trying to promote my app by posting it here on this forum, i hope this works out :)

Just telling people you know might not be enough, i did not have any downloads beside of the people i convinced to download it.
[General Marketing & SEO] Julia Ozmitel:
Prior to promote Android app, you should form a general promotion strategy. It means that all steps you made for making your app popular need to be through before the app launch. You can go for two ways:

1) Focus on free promotional tactics first;

2) Use free methods of advertising to get desired traffic faster.

Essential free promotion activities are:

App Store Optimization (ASO) for ensuring a high rank of your app in the app stores. Use services as SensorTower, ASOdesk,etc which help to create the title and description with relevant keywords.

Make the app more attractive for potential users. Prepare informing screenshots and make an eye-catching logo for draw attention of a large number of people.

Pitch bloggers and journalist who are specialised on writing app reviews. You can also try to write press release and reach journalists who will be interested in your app and promote it among their readers. In order to make this process more effective I advise you to read a book “Pitch Perfect: The Art of Promoting Your App on the Web”. It is written by journalists Steve Sande and Erica Sadun who have worked on mobile app reviews for many years.

Use Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other popular social media in your region. Make pages dedicated to your app and join groups for posting information about the app, sharing links to it in App Store.

When you performed steps mentioned above, you are ready to start a paid promotional campaign. The most common method to get traffic quickly is through paid CPI advertising (you will pay only for real users who have downloaded your app) and acquire non-incentivized mobile traffic (real users who have made own decision to download the app based on the topic of that app or they have just liked the ad banner or a video).

I work with Clickky. Its launched self-serve platforms for user acquisition and mobile monetization are tailored to the needs of app developers, agencies and networks.

Working with Clickky, you’ll be able to:

start small as we allow to spend only $100 for a mobile ad campaign

analyze the cheapest and most expensive countries and OS to advertise in due to CPI prediction tool – we show you the average install price for every region selected in the real time

to get access to real-time statistics of your ad campaign

to optimize your mobile CPI campaigns according to performance

to blacklist traffic sources that bring smaller Retention Rate

You can learn more about Clickky's self-serve platform for advertisers here: goo.gl / MwoHXM
[General Marketing & SEO] KBay:
What is the best and free way to get maximum of installs?

I have an App https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.msb How can I get more installs for it. It is educational and free. There are plenty of kids who whould benefit from it. But the Google Play doesn't rate it well. Seem like I need more installs. But it is free app and I am not going to pay for installs. What can I do about that?
[General Marketing & SEO] KBay:
You need installs and ratings to get higher ratings. Installs you can get with services that are use advertising or services that just do installs. With advertising you are getting installs from users that might use your app. But those users often are not happy with your app, they uninstall it and can give you the bad rating.

With services that just do installs you will not get new users, but all installs will be kept on the devices for a long time, and you will get ratings/reviews that you paid off. It will boost your app rating in the Google Play. The Promo is pretty good, the prices are the cheapest and your app will be kept on devices for a year.
[General Marketing & SEO] Sorenson_ss:
I recently joined keyapp.top service. They have very polite and competent support and useful functions. Quite quickly my application got to the top of the keywords I promoted in this service. I recommend everyone to try.
[General Marketing & SEO] nikolayu:
You can try with http://helpforyourapp.com/

Easy way to exchange reviews for both markets (Android and iOS) for free.

It can raise your position of the app on the store
[General Marketing & SEO] Ultra-Droid:
Thank you for that nice suggestion

---------- Post added at 11:16 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:12 PM ----------

Use social networks

and try to post it on more than one store rather than only going for the playstore go for others

---------- Post added at 11:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:16 PM ----------

There is a section over here in the forums for promoting free apps

It is free also try using social media I hope this helps

---------- Post added at 11:18 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:17 PM ----------

There is a section over here in the forums for promoting free apps

It is free also try using social media I hope this helps
[General Marketing & SEO] david_1225:
Mobile App Development

Publish your app on top websites is such a great way for any app to get popularity in very short time. These sites present your app with its app attractive and key factors details.

It’s such a good platform to interact with app users directly. If your app publish on top websites then its show every day to app users, so you can get lots of installs and good positive reviews also.
[General Marketing & SEO] Aashin:
Good reviews lead to more people downloading the app. Best way is to use any review exchange community . It gives more genuine reviews than paid reviews . Now a days Google has some strict policy against paid reviews . So use any good Review Exchange sites . I recommend " Appreviewdesk " . From my experience it gives more genuine reviews than other sites .
[General Marketing & SEO] simicartan:
App Marketing tips

1. Use your website

If you’re asking “where do I promote my app?”, then your website is the first source you should think of because it’s a total “zero budget campaign” and you already have your visitors. Your app needs to be featured across your website so your customers know it’s a real-deal and that you truly invested in it as a new platform to better customer experience.

Including your mobile app promotion on your site can be done by using a “Get the App” Call to Action, by designing a landing page exclusively for the app or using a banner display whenever someone visits your site.

2. Share Across Social Media

Using your Business Social Media for mobile app promotion is pretty much a must. Don’t forget to update your social media with posts/posters/banners that promote your new app like Twitter Header Image or your Facebook Cover Photo. Facebook also allows you to create CTAs that you can use to encourage people to download your app.

3. Feature The App in Your Emails

Any emails sent to your customers even it’s a support, newsletter, payment confirmation or Ads should include a link/code to advertise and download your app. You can also put the download link in your email signature.

Provide them with useful and valuable information so they will ultimately be more inclined to download your app.
[General Marketing & SEO] calendarwidget29:
I am also interested in this issue.

My practical experience:

advertising budget 400$:

1. google ads: very expensive. many deletes after installation.

2. appbrain: better, but result is little.

In theory:

3. ASO.

4. write on forums and reviews.

5.create groups on facebook, twitter and instagram.
[General Marketing & SEO] Makus321:
I try "Appreviewdesk" and get only 1 review.

What similar sites are there?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oyeve:
My TF used to be able to connect to my PC and my Mac so I could do file copies and transfers. A few days ago I was running low on space and deleted some old music and movies and stuff that was in the ASUS folder. Now I can connect to any PC or mac. I thought maybe I deleted something so I decided to update the rom with the official file from asus but I copied the file to the root of sdcard and the root of external sdcard and booted into recovery but get an exclamation mark on the andoid guy.

1. Why wont this damn thing connect to my computers NOW when it did before? Did I delete something on the TF that would allow this? I downloaded all the usb drivers and sync SW from asus for the PC and Mac but no go.

2. How the hell to I restore the rom from the update file?

I am not rooted and run completely on stock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oyeve:
Really? No one knows if there are files on the TF that controls computer connecting?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AustinMartin:
How are tou trying to connect to your pc? Regularly, as if you were going to sync? If your tf is not booting, you can't connect in this mode.

Sent from my mopho
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oyeve:
I would normally just connect the tablet to my computers via the usb cable. On my mac I would run the android file utility and it would mount. On the PC I would run the asus synch sw. But now none of these work. I connect to the pc and if the tf is in sleep mode it would wake but I get no prompt on the tab to run pc synch and if i run the sw on the pc it says no device detected. on the mac I run the android file utility and it says no device connected. The cable does not look busted and it still charges the tab. I dont know what was in the asus folder on the tablet when I deleted it but I am thinking there must have been something there that would run.

I am trying to update the tf with the firmware file I d/led from asus's website but I dont know where to put the file. I put it in the root of sdcard and in the root of external sdcard and booted into recovery but just get the android guy with excalamtion.

If I let it boot up normally it works fine, just wont mount.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AustinMartin:
I don't think you'll be able to update if you went in and randomly deleted a directory. Especially if it was labelled ASUS.

I think that the update procedure does a crc check of all the files it's going to update, and if they don't match what it is expecting, it fails.

You might have deleted something needed for asus syncing.

In order to manually update, you need to put the update on a microsd, anyways, so you can just copy the files from a pc that has a microsd/sd slot.

---------- Post added at 03:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:23 PM ----------

You also need to be very clear in your questions what you're referring to

SDCARD - is the internal memory of the transformer. You definately shouldn't delete an /ASUS folder from there.

microSD - is the microSD card you can put into the tablet. This is where you need to put an update file to manually update your transformer.

external SD card - is the full size sdcard in the keyboard. This can't be used for recovery, as the recovery software doesn't see this card.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Oyeve:
I put the zip file in the root of external sd and still get the exclamation when I attempt to update. At this point I may restore. Quick question though, does performing a restore from setting bring back the tf to original state?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vanso:
Actually, I have exactly the same problem. I didn't do anything e.g. I certainly did NOT delete any files of folders labeled asus on my device. And it just stopped working for me. My cable is totally ok so it does charge my Transofmer. Trying to wipe it now to see if it does any help.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vanso:
Wipe did nothing at all. Still the same. Actually, when I boot into Windows and try to connect my pad to it, it says that there is an unknown device detected, but when I try to install asus drivers, nothing happens, it just doesn't work.
[Off-topic] droidlibrary:
What Ebooks you want to download on your Android device?
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Already have the next Terry Pratchett Discworld book on pre-order. (Kindle Edition for my phone, of course!)

iirc it's a City Watch story, which are the best ones.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, and occasionally snookered and out of his mind, but never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a finding, there must be a chase and there must be a punishment. They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.But not quite all... "
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
I generally dl the one's I want to read......

Ba dum tshhhhh......

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Lol :D

I will assume for now that with a name like 'Droidlibrary' and with it being his first post, this guy is probably trying to peddle copies of ebooks?

Or am i just an old cynic?
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
Good catch! :D

DIRK Y U NO MODERATOR??

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[Off-topic] Dirk:
Lol, i'm too soft to moderate...

This is me:

This is what i'd need to be:

..and i'd need the arm strength for this:

..or this:

:eek: :D :p
[Off-topic] Alex530:
Boy kills man. Amazing book. <3.
[Off-topic] Archer:
I want an ebook. Can you get "The poop that took a pee"?
[Off-topic] conantroutman:
I have the pop up version. Bit messy though.....

Dirk, I can assure you that after witnessing some of the absolute fail that permeates this place the hulk would be no match for you. (And that's just OT :p)

Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
[HD Mini Android Development] munjeni:
I need help from wince rom devs here. What I need now? I need all offsets from wince:

- xip start, hip end

- partitions offsets (start/end/type)

- ram start/end (I see from mtty command ramdump, ram offset start is 0x02e40000 but not sure if it is ram addresse becouse photon kernel offset start is 0x200000, so maybe kernel need to be adapted for 0x2e40000 ??

I used tinboot as a bootloader, created nbh image, uploaded it to nand and tried many times to get kernel booting but it could not boot:(. Also I see nothing in addresse 0x02e40000 after uploading tinboot to nand and (after) ussing mtty ramdump but I created nbh image including tinboot, kernel...etc to offset 0x2e40000 hmm, something is not good! Yes I understand it can not be good becouse I need to create image with proper offsets, edit mbr record...etc. Hmm, or maybe spl have some security check preventing tinboot to execute? I think first step need to be: understanding how it works, what we need, analysing ramdump, analysing RUU_signed.nbh(unpacking it, using only os.nb for analyse, finding all offsets inside...). If you coked roms succesfully and have that skills, please post here all your opinions, tools ...etc. Only hard part is geting kernel boot from nand, other parts is easy (creating system, data, cache partition)

Some interested links:

- emulating mtd device -> http://minimodding.com/tiki-index.php?page=ImageAccess

- best tutorial I seen (but not understand some parts like how to find xip start/end...offsets is problem!) -> http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/cdma-tp-development/70776-how-tos-developing-ii.html#post989528

- small bootloader (need to be adapted for photon!) -> http://www.neopeek.com/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=2319

Maybe you know where exist some tools for editing ram image, msflash, htc mbr...etc??

Maybe you have some friends who have skils with rom coking?

Maybe asking Cotulla (donating him also) for help? Whether you are willing to donate if he agrees to help?

Maybe mskip will help here?

All help is welcome!

I not know, but maybe dumping haret parts :eek:(including tags, boot, kernel, initrd) from memory, and porting it to nbh? Hmm, good idea :eek:, I will try

Some interesting links how to dump xip (hmm if successfully dump xip I will search for offsets in mtd dump:D... also partitions...etc) -> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=616995

When we found all offsets it will be maybe easy to create android nbh (tinbot, kernel and initrd only - for probe... if success boot, than porting android to nand):)
[HD Mini Android Development] sp3dev:
Start from porting LK bootloader

http://htc-linux.org/wiki/index.php?title=LK_Bootloader

get the one from codeaurora git. You may need to make adjustments to make it work on non-android msm7225. Maybe porting our fork for 7200A is easier. Depends on the AMSS (radio) version in your device.

this tree https://gitorious.org/lk-msm7200a-htc-wince/tinboot-for-lk-xda/trees/master contains the tinboot-based wrapper and scripts to embed LK bootloader binary into an NBH flashable to wince devices

sorry I cannot help you more here since I don't have photon and time to work on it, but if you spend more time reading htc-linux irc logs, you'll figure it out yourself

As for the boot address, it should be the same as in haret. Typically, 0x10000000
[HD Mini Android Development] munjeni:
I need lk? Is possible using only tinboot to boot kernel? I tried to boot only kernel and zimage! Boot adrese for photon/haret is 0x200000
[HD Mini Android Development] sp3dev:
tinboot sucks if not to say more. It is a nice thing on its own and is a great work from dzo but it is extremely annoying to make nand roms with it and you can get into serious problems like boot loop. LK gives nice features

1. fastboot protocol for flashing and recovery so you can just use OTA updates in CM7 like native devices

2. you can implement reboot to bootloader/reboot to recovery

3. it passes partition layout via ATAGs to kernel

4. you can enable some hardware (clocks, vregs) and be able to use single kernel for nand and haret

and most importantly, you can easily implement basic battery charging in LK. with tinboot, you can easily get stuck in the boot loop if you completely discharge your battery