The Information Technology industry thrives on certifications. For most technical positions within the business community, academic degrees from 4-year universities are less relevant than practical, hands-on skills that potential employees must possess to perform their work. Throughout the Computer Age, there have been several professional certifications that at different times have been the hallmark of achievement: the [...]

It’s the holiday season and a time for gift giving.  Some people can be harder to shop for than others.  What do you buy for the Dad who has everything or the closed lipped teenager?  An inexpensive gift that can give hours of enjoyment is the gift of applications for mobile devices.  For the technology [...]

So you know how to make apps, but have you ever thought about how to promote them?  Now that your idea has come to fruition and your app is ready for public consumption your work is really just beginning.  All of your hard work is nothing if no one downloads your app.  Uploading your app [...]

The Android Market has reached a birthday of sorts.  The mobile application market place has reached 500,000 submissions.  According to the research firm research2guidance this big milestone was reached in September.  The month of September in itself broke records by bringing in 42,000 applications to the Android Market. Though this is a big deal for [...]

If you plan to use ads in your apps you will need to set up an AdMob account.  This is a simple matter of going to www.admob.com and filling out a registration form.  Once your registration form is complete AdMob will send you a conformation e-mail to complete the process.  When your account is set [...]

Obeying export compliance laws is an important legal part of putting an app on the market place.  Since your application is hosted on Google servers and they are a United States company it is considered an export when someone from outside of the U.S. downloads your app.  Most of the common export regulations have to [...]

Unlike Apple, the Android Market is open to any developer.  There are five key features that Android feels give a perfect overview of their market place.  It boasts itself as being simple with just three easy steps to get your app on the market place.  You can choose to distribute paid or free apps to [...]

The Information Technology industry thrives on certifications. For most technical positions within the business community, academic degrees from 4-year universities are less relevant than practical, hands-on skills that potential employees must possess to perform their work. Throughout the Computer Age, there have been severalprofessional certifications that at different times have been the hallmark of achievement: the CNE, the [...]

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations you are almost there.  There are just a few more steps before you app is live in the app store.  Now we will talk about uploading your binary and managing your apps. To upload your binary go to your Version Details page and click on the Ready to [...]

Now that we have got all of the technical and financial stuff out of the way it is time to learn how to add your app to the app store.  The simple over view for adding an app is as follows: enter your metadata, set territories and pricing, add languages, add screenshots, and prepare your [...]