Game Developers Conference (GDC). This event will be taking place from March 7-9, 2012 in San Francisco, California.

The GDC attracts over 19,000 attendees, and is the primary forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the future of the industry. So if you are game developer you should be there!

For more information about the Game Developers Conference, please visit their website – http://www.gdconf.com/

Unlockers enable users to “unlock” another level of your game, view quiz results or gain access to exclusive areas in your app, by completing one of the offers on your content unlocker. The unlocker appears when the users are at the peak of their engagement– right before they reach to the content they desire.

Banner/Text Ads
This is a traditional ad format which is so easy to integrate and displays targeted ads in the form of banner image or text ads on the screen during app usage.

Optimization Tips for Content Unlockers & Banner Text Ads:

Customize the skin of an Unlocker to suit the theme of your app
You can fully customize the colors, text and design of the ad to fit the theme of your app and retain your branding.

Customize the appearance of banner text ads
You can fully customize the background color and text of the ads to stand out from your app so that it will be more noticeable to users.

Multivariate Testing (Unlockers & Banner Text Ads)
Run multivariate tests on your customized content unlocker and banner text ads instantly to find out which combination is the most effective to achieve optimal performance for your app.

Multivariate testing involves setting up alternate versions of text, colors and other visual assets and then testing all combinations simultaneously to determine the highest performing ad settings for your users – We do all this for you with no hassle at all!

For more information about Multivariate Testing, visit this site

Getting Started
This tutorial assumes you have the Android SDK installed and functioning, and have downloaded at least the basic Android 1.6 target. If not, complete these steps before continuing.

First step:

1. Download emulator system image file for 1.6 or 2.2 emulators – those image files are given to developers by HTC (thanks HTC!)
2. Create new virtual device with target 1.6 or 2.2

Replacing the System Image:

1. Now you need to copy “system.img” file that you downloaded
2. copy “system.img” in to android/avd/your avd name/ (replace is one already egzist

Starting android market:

1. Run avd in witch you put “system.img”
2. When avd boots you will need to create new google account and add it to your avd just like you do with android phone
3. If you cannot open keyboard press skip button that will appear after booting and create google account by clicking android market icon in all apps

You are done:

If you fallowed all my steps now you can download all your app witch give them + installs and you can also comment on those!

In december LeadBolt announced  “App Wall” its their new advertising format. This is a full-page ad, there is no need for SDK integration, “App Wall” is simply embedded in a WebView. The app wall offers the user a list of free apps to download. If they click and download one of the apps, Leadbolt will pay you a referral fee witch is around 30-100 cents (at least for me).

When i heard about this i immediately fought about embedding this as one of menus positions. I called this position “Current Top Applications”. By integrating “App Wall” under this position you get easy and not aggressive for the user per per download money. User can simply choose to ignore that menu item if they’re not interested in the advertising (not annoyed user = happy user that use our app more often). List of apps on “App Wall” change very often so , users are likely to keep returning to this section day after day especially if they get interesting app that way.

What are you waiting for? Go try Leadbolt!

If you dont know that already i decided to go with Leadbolt ad network using only push notification ads.

Report refer this application

What i did before adding Leadbolt ads and what was happening to my application.

1. Uploaded app to market around 12 o’clock on Friday. Friday is the day that starts biggest movement on the android market. At the 1st day i had 350 active users thats very good number! Usually fresh apps dont go above 100 downloads.
2. I posted my application on android related forums that gave notable boost in downloads.
3. My application had steady growth of 500+ active installs per day but after one month everything broke to 50-100 downloads. Thats due to promotion of new apps by market search engine witch ends after 30 days.
4. In those 30 days my application reached 20k active users with 50% ratio active/installations
5. So when downloads stopped i decided to go with  push notification ads.

What happened after adding Leadbolt?

See for yourself:

Conclusions after month and 7 days of Leadbolt:

1. I managed to reach quite some number with fresh application with not so well made graphics.
2. Income i made in those 7 days = 130$ While using admob i probably  would earn around 5-7$ so its gigantic improvement! admbo cpm atm is eaqual to 0.20 cents so Leadbolt have 10-30 times bigger cpm! On some days  Leadbolts cpm can reach 20$ depending on country. Germany pays most for ads on their territory.

I’m really happy what i earned from this application. Developing it took me about 10 hours. Teak in account that i had to learn ho to make widgets because i never made one before.

I assume you already made your account here and downloaded latest sdk, added your application to the Leadbolt website also that you chose notification as ad type.

First what you need to do:

1. add sdk jar file to your android project in to lib folder ( if there is no such create one).
2. right click on sdk jar and chose build patch >  add to build patch
3. add fallowing uses permissions to your manifest file  (wake_lock permission is not necessary)
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.WAKE_LOCK” />
   <uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED” />
4. add receiver within <application> tag

   <application … >

   <receiver android:name=”com.Leadbolt.AdNotification” />

   </application>

5. now proceed in to one of your clases that you use in your application and in onCreate() function (or inside function/method where you want to trigger ad)
   String MY_LEADBOLT_SECTION_ID=”type your section id that you received when adding app to leadbolt  website”;

   AdController myController = new AdController(getApplicationContext(), MY_LEADBOLT_SECTION_ID);

   myController.loadNotification();

    

I became independent developer.

What was my goal?

- Work for less than FIVE hours a day so i will have a lot of time for enjoining life

-Having my only income source from android applications

-After a year or so not having to do anything to earn

-Never ever having Boss above me!!!

What was my plan?

-Make as many “fast” made applications like “Anti Dog Repellent”

-My only options to monetize applications was ads, since i cannot post paid applications on android market from my country

How is it after 3 months?

My income is growing rapidly. Last month my maximum per day was 230$ only from mobile ads in my FREE applications. In January my total revenue is equal to $3,748.90!!! I earn that much after 2 months of being “Independent Developer” Its already twice as much as i had in my day job!

Want to know more?!

Register with this add network – LINK!

This ad network  serve big variety of ads formats as well as Android, iOs, Blackberry os, Bada and Windows mobile -systems

And read my tips in my other posts as well as income reports statistics and so on.

I do my best to describe those 3 months for you in other posts.