[Journey] Building an iOS & Android App Empire

[brucebanner]

wow, probably the best thread i've read so far and i didnt finish but i have a question. Why dont you use C# to build games in both platforms?

I keep reading!

 

[nakamura]

wow, probably the best thread i've read so far and i didnt finish but i have a question. Why dont you use C# to build games in both platforms?

I keep reading!

First of all thanks for the nice words. At the moment I am learning Unity and will make some games soon.

 

[VAT]

I drove traffic mainly from my websites and got downloads

Interesting. I've gone through the entire thread, but you did not mention anything in detail about this secret website. What kind of website is this?

 

[sekund]

Hey @nakamura, congratulations on your journey! I'm happy once the journey about app/games come up since I feel it's very rare.

I wanted to ask you about ad mediation. Do you think Appodeal is the easiest to implement? Because I have done AdMob or ironSource as mediators, however, they mostly caused a lot of errors in source code, which is kinda annoying as I'm bad at resolving them. Wondering if you had tried those?

Also, I think you mentioned, you use AdMob, Unity, or Adcolony - does Appodeal support real-time bidding, or is it the waterfall method?

Thanks!

 

[nakamura]

Hey @nakamura, congratulations on your journey! I'm happy once the journey about app/games come up since I feel it's very rare.

I wanted to ask you about ad mediation. Do you think Appodeal is the easiest to implement? Because I have done AdMob or ironSource as mediators, however, they mostly caused a lot of errors in source code, which is kinda annoying as I'm bad at resolving them. Wondering if you had tried those?

Also, I think you mentioned, you use AdMob, Unity, or Adcolony - does Appodeal support real-time bidding, or is it the waterfall method?

Thanks!

Thanks for the nice words.

Yes, I also do the Admob mediation, which I also found quite easy to implement.

If you want to be independent from Google I would recommend Appodeal. It was quite easy to implement and I didn't have many problems. Yes, from what I saw they support real-time bidding and also the waterfall method.

 

[WarlordYT]

Thanks for the nice words.

Yes, I also do the Admob mediation, which I also found quite easy to implement.

If you want to be independent from Google I would recommend Appodeal. It was quite easy to implement and I didn't have many problems. Yes, from what I saw they support real-time bidding and also the waterfall method.

appodeal is rejecting me wtf is wrong , they send me email about joining and when i register they reject me :/

 

[nakamura]

Interesting. I've gone through the entire thread, but you did not mention anything in detail about this secret website. What kind of website is this?

I have many different websites for which I did SEO and therefore get organic traffic as well. I then just place banners, sliders, etc. to advertise my apps.

appodeal is rejecting me wtf is wrong , they send me email about joining and when i register they reject me :/

Did you message them and ask them why? Kinda weird

 

[lnx8789]

What 2-step verification method do you recommend for Google Play developer accounts?

I'm a mobile game developer and I had a banned account a few years ago. I created a new one and so far I haven't had any problems. I have been using SMS from a SIM Card that I bought exclusively for this as a 2FA method. But I don't think it's very safe. I wanted to try using some 2FA app, but I'm afraid that Google might link my accounts and I get another account banned.

Do you recommend any 2FA apps? Can Google read and link accounts in an encrypted 2FA app?

 

[nakamura]

What 2-step verification method do you recommend for Google Play developer accounts?

I'm a mobile game developer and I had a banned account a few years ago. I created a new one and so far I haven't had any problems. I have been using SMS from a SIM Card that I bought exclusively for this as a 2FA method. But I don't think it's very safe. I wanted to try using some 2FA app, but I'm afraid that Google might link my accounts and I get another account banned.

Do you recommend any 2FA apps? Can Google read and link accounts in an encrypted 2FA app?

If you use a 2FA app, make sure to not use Google's. Microsoft has a 2FA app as well. Should be safer. I am not so sure if they can track this then.

 

[viraldude]

Weldone man...

I can tell from the heat of the thread, Google isn't chilling with devs.
From your experience, can you tell which platform pays more for equal effort? Ios or android?

 

[nakamura]

Weldone man...

I can tell from the heat of the thread, Google isn't chilling with devs.
From your experience, can you tell which platform pays more for equal effort? Ios or android?

Since the iOS 14 update, the earnings dropped. Many people don't allow the app tracking and therefore it doesn't show them targeted ads. Btw. Android is planning to do the exact same now.

But the Apple App Store is by 100% better and more reliable. I never had ANY problem with them. All apps I ever published are still online.

 

[Drzeww]

Hello, i just saw your whole diary about the android buisness.
I am also worked in android from 2018, but leaved it 5 months ago and now i back again, because any other
buisness made me tons of issues, mostly in SEO, some YT, sites, there s milions of competitors.

On Android i made around 100K$ by adsterra, applovin,appnext,propellerads, admob when it was working fine, and some FAN before they implemented the copyrights update and enjoyed demonetization whole apps in playstore.

The worst problem for me was when google decided to limit accounts, i tryed with accounts 10-11 times
but always getting it again and again, so i just moved to startapp (2 years ago as i remember), where i was able to reach even 100$ daily but, the traffic was really huge, on admob i should reach around 1000$ with that.

Currently i am using Applovin where i am getting aroung 15$ daily, sad a bit but i have just 3 apps in store.

As i saw you wrote something about TIER of countries, that it could be happened because of people from TIER 3 countries.
My mainly question for you is that, that you using admob for now yea?
It is really works fine for you and you didnt get limited when you just used only TIER 1 countries for admob?

Mine main issue is that, that i cant monetize my traffic with good value, the only way for now is admob, but i never
found fix for these limitations.

Thank you for your reply.

 

[nakamura]

As i saw you wrote something about TIER of countries, that it could be happened because of people from TIER 3 countries.
My mainly question for you is that, that you using admob for now yea?
It is really works fine for you and you didnt get limited when you just used only TIER 1 countries for admob?

Mine main issue is that, that i cant monetize my traffic with good value, the only way for now is admob, but i never
found fix for these limitations.

Thank you for your reply.

Admob is limiting the accounts because of two possible reasons:
- fake traffic (someone is click bombing your ads)
- low quality traffic/clicks

I would recommend you to use mediation, so you can add several ad networks and simply turn them on and off without updating the app itself. This saves you a lot of time and also lets you earn more.

 

[Drzeww]

Admob is limiting the accounts because of two possible reasons:
- fake traffic (someone is click bombing your ads)
- low quality traffic/clicks

I would recommend you to use mediation, so you can add several ad networks and simply turn them on and off without updating the app itself. This saves you a lot of time and also lets you earn more.

What about you now?
Are you using currently admob without any issues when you sending just TIER 1 traffic, or google its still making
some problems for you, and smashing the account sometimes?

 

[nakamura]

What about you now?
Are you using currently admob without any issues when you sending just TIER 1 traffic, or google its still making
some problems for you, and smashing the account sometimes?

At this very moment I have two Android apps online (working on some more) and the rest of it are iOS apps.

Having no problems with Admob for a year already. No limitations.

 

[MemeLord]

At this very moment I have two Android apps online (working on some more)

Can you answer these questions? @nakamura
- Do I've to add some specific options to get approval from play store/admob?
(Like for website 'Contact us' 'terms & condition' pages are must for adsense approval.)

What are those necessary options?
I've searched about this but didnt find a clear answer.

 

[skferdous]

Do you have any experience with earning apps?

 

[Drzeww]

At this very moment I have two Android apps online (working on some more) and the rest of it are iOS apps.

Having no problems with Admob for a year already. No limitations.

Its a blackhat or whitehat from your side in apps?

 

[nakamura]

Can you answer these questions? @nakamura
- Do I've to add some specific options to get approval from play store/admob?
(Like for website 'Contact us' 'terms & condition' pages are must for adsense approval.)

What are those necessary options?
I've searched about this but didnt find a clear answer.

No, from what I know they only check your app and don't care about the pages such as privacy policy and so on. No clue what and how exactly they check it, but mine got approved always within a couple of hours.

Do you have any experience with earning apps?

What exactly do you mean with "earning apps"?

Its a blackhat or whitehat from your side in apps?

Whitehat. But what do you consider blackhat in apps? Copyrighted stuff?

 

[WarlordYT]

i got lifted from limitation and again i got limited within 10 days dafaq