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Learning Android Application Development

By : Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson
Book Image

Learning Android Application Development

By: Raimon Ràfols Montane, Laurence Dawson

Overview of this book

The mobile app market is huge. But where do you start? And how you can deliver something that takes Google Play by storm? This guide is the perfect route into Android app development – while it’s easy for new apps to sink without a trace, we’ll give you the best chance of success with practical and actionable guidance that will unlock your creativity and help you put the principles of Android development into practice. From the fundamentals and getting your project started to publishing your app to a huge market of potential customers, follow this guide to become a confident, creative and reliable mobile developer. Get to grips with new components in Android 7 such as RecyclerView, and find out how to take advantage of automated testing, and, of course, much, much more. What are you waiting for? There’s never been a better time – or a better way – to get into Android app development.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Android Application Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Paid apps


Paid apps are the most straightforward approach. At the moment of uploading the application to Google Play, we set the download price. As mentioned just now, some applications have a freemium version that includes advertisements or, for example, have limited functionality. And then, we have a paid version that can be considered the full, professional version or the one without advertisements.

Creating a paid app

When we created an application in Google Play, under the pricing and distribution section, we can choose whether we would like to publish it as free or paid. A paid application can always be converted to free, but a free application, once it has been published as free, cannot be changed to paid:

The only option would be to change the package name and upload it as a brand new application. For more information, refer to https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6334373?rd=1#paid_free.

We have to set the price of our application. There is a default price...