RevMob - the worst ad network in the world
RevMob is the worst ad network I ever used (at least for android)! They claim to provide $10 eCPM. I tried them for a week now and all I can say is that this is far far away from the truth. The CTR is very high indeed, somewhere around 30%, but they pay on installs and the IR is around 1.5% – 2%. Actually this wouldn’t be very bad if the installs where worth something. They advertise over a $1 for an install, all you get in reality is $0.02!!! I waited for a week to be sure, but now I am switching my interstitial ads to Airpush!
Did you ChartBoost(interstitials) before? I heard very good stories about it for iOS, not sure about android though!
It seems that ChartBoost is only for iOS. RevMob has also very good results for iOS apps…
I will stick with Airpush for now, the smartwall looks very promising and they are supposed to bring very soon a new sdk only for the banner and interstitial ads.
Chartboost is available for Android too https://help.chartboost.com/documentation/android
They provide only interstitials and that too promote only Games.
I decided to try PlayHaven. After the game was released on the Samsung market the revenues from RevMob got better so I will left the samsung version with RevMob and switch the Play store and SlideMe version to PlayHaven. In this way I will have some numbers at the end of the month to compare 🙂
Before going further, plesae note that you’ll have to pay 25USD for a Google developer account in order to publish apps for the Android Market. For the iPhone AppStore (iTunes), it’s even more expensive, 99$ a year minimum I think.Now for your question:The most easy way to develop an Android app is through the Google (Android) AppInventor since you virtually draw the application and graphically organize its actions and the dependencies between the screens. It’s kind of like in Visual Basic if you know that already. Anyway, even if you have no experience, AppInventor is really a good way to start, it includes an emulator, and it’s free of course. However, in order to package it in an .apk (to run it on a phone) or to publish on the market, it’s not a straightforward step but it’s possible anyway through PhoneGap for instance.Further step would be using JavaScript programming through a platform like Appcelerator Titanium. They have developed a bridge between JavaScript and both Obj-C (iOS: iPhone/iPad) and Java (Android). So the good thing, is once you compile the app, it’s usable for both iPhone/iPad and Android phones/tablets. Titanium includes emulators for all those platforms. In addition, it allows to package even for MacOS X (Apple computers) but you have to pay something for Apple, again.Unless you already know and master Java, in that case go directly with Eclipse IDE and hard code.
Appinventor would be a good choice. It is faster to make apps via appinventor. Eclipse and Android Studio take time to load and compile etc. … Appinventor is more simple 🙂
But we are talking Ads. As far as I know, appinventor does not let you incorporate ads in your apps, I had to purchase Ailive complete for this reason only….
What is the point of making apps if you make no $?
Yeah you can try to sell your app lol…Unless it becomes a popular app, Good luck with that..
No one wants to pay when they can get sh*t for free… 🙂
It would be great if Appinventor let you display ads…As far as I know there is no simple way with Ai.
I cant speak for Revmob, but chartboost interstitial perform better than Admob interstitial 🙂 …. Amazon ads also outperform Google admob in terms of revenue…….
Amazon or Chartboost is a great choice.