As you probably know I am a developer of a few applications for Android. As a developer I am interested in spreading my applications a far as possible. Some of my applications display advertisements so spreading them means increasing my revenue. So, I checked all the different application stores that are available for Android. I counted more than 18. For many of them I created an account and submitted my applications. Of course, the Android Market is mandatory. Further, I selected SlideMe, AndroidPit, AndAppStore, AppLibs, and Handster, just to name a few application stores.
I see significant downloads from all these application stores. This is great as it proves that the economics around the different application stores are working. Such a healthy application store infrastructure is important for Android as it makes it open to many extra hardware devices and frees it from content restrictions inflicted by the Android Market.
From a developer point of view the various application stores add to the complexity of handling applications. First, I have to collect the download and sales numbers manually from the various application stores. Additional information such as download region and devices used by customers are not available from all application stores. This makes it cumbersome and tedious for me to track relevant information I usually process to manage advertisement about my applications. Secondly, the update procedure is far more time-consuming. Handling eight application stores means that I have to submit an update eight times. To make it even worse, the different application store have different procedures to submit updates.
So, my question is do you know any tool that handles this complexity by cooperating with the various application stores? It should be fairly easy to develop such a tool that is able to collect download and sales numbers and manages the procedures to submit an application update to the different application stores. What do you think?
Best regards,
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 00:23 2010-12-14 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
MobileKnox for Android 1.6.0 (MobileKnox / Safe)
MobileKnox 1.5.0 provided a new feature called “quick insertion”. This feature allows to easily insert commonly used strings such as “login” or “password” by just clicking a menu button. In MobileKnox 1.6.0 this feature is extended to collect names of your accounts as configured by your phone (see Settings - “Accounts & sync” on your Android phone). The idea behind this is that often the names of your accounts are used by other accounts as well. For instance, your mail address is often shared as login name by many accounts. So, adding this feature makes the usage of MobileKnox even more convenient.
Have fun using MobileKnox and DesktopKnox.
Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 20:40 2010-11-24 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
MobileKnox 1.5.0 and 1.5.1 (MobileKnox / Safe)
Two days ago I released MobileKnox 1.5.0 and today I set free an improvements and bugfix release called MobileKnox 1.5.1. Besides the already mentioned improvements MobileKnox provides now the so-called “quick insertion” of predefined strings. If you add or modify an existing entry you usually type in “Login:” and “Password:” which is often a pain. Entering these strings repeatably is something MobileKnox should make easy. For this, “Quick Insertion” is developed. Just make a long click on the content text field and select the string you want to enter. You can select from a wide varity of strings. Just to name few: Login, Username, Password, and PIN.
Have a look on these screenshots showing how "Quick Insertion" works:
Currently, the predefined strings cannot be changed. Do you want to be able to change the string? Let me know and I will think about providing such a feature!
Have fun using MobileKnox and DekstopKnox.
Best regards,
Thomas King
Posted by Thomas King at 16:50 2010-11-07 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
MobileKnox 1.4.2 (MobileKnox / Safe)
Today, I released MobileKnox 1.4.2 which contains minor bugfixes: Some typos in the German localization are fixed. Additionally, some minor glitches while changing the orientation are squashed out. Finally, in some circumstances the premium key was not correctly detected. This is also fixed.
The next version of MobileKnox will contain some interesting features. So, stay tuned.
Have fun using MobileKnox and DesktopKnox.
Best regards,
Thomas King
Posted by Thomas King at 23:36 2010-10-31 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
MobileKnox 1.4.0 (MobileKnox / Safe)
Today, I released MobileKnox 1.4.0. This release contains one big new feature: “Used nearby”. “Used nearby” lists the entries that have been opened in the past close to your current location. For instance, if you are using entries (e.g., accounts for servers) mainly while being in the office these entries are listed. If you are using other accounts while being at home (e.g., accounts for flickr, amazon, and paypal) the entries representing these accounts are shown first in the list of all entries. So, this makes accessing entries of MobileKnox really easy.
The following screenshot shows a list of entries that is sorted by the distance between where I opened the entries the last time and where I am standing while holding the smart-phone. As you can see this really helps finding entries.
Have fun using MobileKnox and DesktopKnox.
Best regards,
Thomas Thomas
Posted by Thomas King at 00:22 2010-10-26 | Trackbacks (0) | Comments (0)
