Project Online Income

And today its time for Android (not the human like robot. Its about phones – smart ones)

Google’s Android as an operating system for mobile phones become very popular since 2009. Standard capabilities includes built-in Wi-fi, GPRS, 3G internet and lot more standard and non standard options. A vast number of applications are already preinstalled when you buy one and enormous list can be found and downloaded from Android Market directly from your phone or thru PC’s browser for free (for some application will have to pay nevertheless). Thanks to Google! A Google account is needed to have all this working.

On the marketplace you can find almost anything you need. Less known is how to build your own application, put it on the market and earn. Hard core programmers use something called Android API, Java, Eclipse etc, but this is not for me (neither for you), so I tried the easy way. Have found two ways by the way.

1. There is an online/offline tool developed by Google called AppInventor which is open source and allows you to build android apps just by combining blocks with functions and actions. Its like a kid’s play to build an application with it even testing your app is pain in the ass but you can create anything you want, playing with advanced functions and sensors android phones have built-in. Recently, Google teamed with MIT to build a new better version, still you can start with AppInventor here

2. If you just have a web page, a blog or just a contact form that you want to be filled by your customers online, on their phones, need to make a mobile version, AppsGeyser offer the right tool. I’ve made an android application within 5 minutes. Nothing fancy, just a blog fitted in a phone screen, but you can add tabs and display several sites or parts of a same site in you app. My application is called Sportska and it is FREE. If you’re interested how to build one, check the video. Other options are on the site in the control panel when you sign up/build your first app.

Monetization
Almost to forgot . You can always add a Google AdSense code to your webpage. If you need something more incentive, AppsGeyser and other android marketplaces offer a service that imprints code into your existing application without changing it (you don’t have do anything just sign up and it will display an advertisement when application is started or a banner in lower part of the screen bringing you revenue when clicked and link is visited by users).

Promotion
Now when you have your app built, its time to place it on the market. AppsGeyser has its own and it is free. Google’s android market is free to use but have to pay 25$ to upload your custom build app. There are other android markets with their own rules, so you can upload it there too, but Official Android Market is the best place thou it has to pay for it. Next step is to spread the word about your creation.

In short that is how its done. Hope its not too complicated.