Android Advertising

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I currently have a free Android application which exists quite happily on the Android market. The problem is that it does not make any money.

Can someone tell me how to put some advertising into the application so that I can capitalise on my hard work and investment in Android.

Thanks in advance

Pie Eater

Posted 18-Nov-10 5:22am

Brian Herbert

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fjdiewornncalwe 19-Nov-10 15:08pm

If your application is useful and in demand, you should charge a nominal fee for it. Charging a dollar or two for an app actually causes many people to look at the application as more "legitimate" and at a nominal price, they will pay. Volume is the name of the game. Advertising embedded into the application will likely just get you bad feedback and people won't even look at this or any other app you create in the future. ( This is entirely my personal opinion... :) )

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Igor Kushnarev · Answer 1 · 2010-11-21T21:42:00

The question is what your advertising looks like? Let's suppose you want to download some new info to be shown from web. To read text you can use something like:

InputStream is = null;
try {
    is = OpenHttpConnection(URL);
    InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
    int read;
    String str = "";
    char[] ib = new char[1024];

   while ((read = isr.read(ib))>0)
   {
     String string =
     String.copyValueOf(ib, 0, read);
     str += string;
     ib = new char[1024];
  }
   in.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
}

For images BitmapFactory has decodeStream method.
And finally use Toast to show your ads. It can be quite complicated, if you provide corresponding layout for it. Design your layout to have all info needed and show the toast:

Toast toast = new Toast(getApplicationContext());
toast.setGarvity(Gravity.LEFT | Gravity.BOTTOM, 0, 0);
toast.setDuration(Toast.LENGTH_LONG);
toast.setView(layout);
toast.show();