Hi everyone, After a lot of sleepless nights i have finally managed to build my first app. Thanks to everyone that helped. Looking back it should have been a lot easier then it was and the problems i had were just down to small details that were overlooked. Anyway searched the How To's for a tutorial on how to place the app in the Android Marketplace but couldnt find anything. Anyone know of any simple tutorials please? Cheers.

Just because you have an app, you shouldn't place it on the Android Market. One of the strengths of Android is the market is not controlled by google as Apple tries with iOS. To publish on the Android Market signup & Pay. See http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/preparing.html Beware of publishing too early, a few one star ratings may doom your app to irrelevance forever. Consider publishing on your own and various other ways before you publish on Android Market. You may have the experience and skills to immediately publish your first app on Android Market or maynot care and just want a merit badge, but don't go in blindly. Best of luck, please post about your app so the rest of us can learn. I'm sure everyone on this forum will support you and everyone that see fit to publish their app. Fred

If you get a few one star ratings, get everyone you know with android phones to install and rate. If all else fails, buy some ratings on fiverr.com. The latest 3 ratings are what people see by default via the marketplace app, so as long as you ensure the latest 3 ratings are good, things should be ok. imo, it's an absolute no-brainer to get it on the marketplace asap. If you publish in other ways you've got the hassle of setting up promotions, press releases, articles and all the rest. The marketplace requires zero or little promotion and your app will quickly get found with a well written title and description. Use any feedback - good or bad - to improve the app. It's far more efficient to submit to the marketplace and react to feedback than it is to have it floating round various places on the internet, with no idea how well it's performing. Is your app good enough? If it's something you'd be happy to have on your own phone, then it's probably ok, and certainly it's probably going to be better than a lot of the complete dross you can find on the marketplace! Submitting to the marketplace is pretty straightforward. Upload the apk, activate it, add some images to the dimensions they state and just go down the page filling in the details they ask for. When your done, back to the top of the page to save and publish.

Another reason to submit to the marketplace asap is their stack trace reports. You have no idea how your app is performing if it's 'out in the wild'. If it's on the marketplace you can react to freezes and force close issues in a timely manner. In fact, it's more likely to doom your app to irrelevence if you DON'T submit it to the marketplace first!

I agree publishing to Market Place has some advantages, which is why I say consider. As you noted a lot if not most of what is published is dross, (remind me to google that word), so I'll say make sure your app is not dross before you publish. :-) A few people have given up on Android Market, but I've noticed some improvements (more needed) of the Market. Depending on your app and business model, Android Market, maynot be the only or best channel for distribution. Fred

@xx11ax, you can email me your project source code to [email protected] with the app's name, description and I can help you publish your app to the market for free

Well done! Maybe you can tell us others what you did to overcome the eclipse problems you had, so quickly.

Andrew, have you got eclipse running, if not tell me what version you have installed. Eclipse/help/about

@raveyd, I've never heard of Fiverr until just now. I checked out their site and it seems pretty interesting on what people would do for $5. Have you used their services before and is it trustworthy? Concerned about getting involved in some sort of scam. Please advise.

@Rad Doc - It's a genuine site, it's been around for a few years now. There are a lot of clones around, but fiverr is the original. I've used their services many many times for video creation, article writing, fb promotion, bookmarking etc and have always been at least reasonably happy with the results. That's not to say that you shouldn't do due diligence though! Check out the comments and ratings of a seller, how long they've been a member, the ratings and comments on their other gigs etc etc, and if you need to, ask questions first before buying a gig. In my experience, good sellers will take the time to reply even before you've sent them any money. There are scammers on there for sure, just as there are on any public selling site, but as fiverr hold the money in escrow until you accept the work done, it's safe enough. For what it's worth, I usually try to create a workflow with a number of sellers. You can get some decent results for 20/25 dollars, which is still incredibly cheap. For example: Get an article written > Get it converted to a script > Get the script made into a review video > Get the article written into a press release = 20 dollars.