Creating for Android help.

TWEAmazingApps

Hello everybody.

I wanted to ask if anyone had some good tips for developing for android. I just recently started creating for android and it seems I am running through weird problems like one for instance is when I test a game out on android a black screen will appear for a long period of time and then the game will pop up. So is there a way to prevent that or is it just the android its self. Plus if there is any helpful tips that I should know about android when developing for them would help to. Thank you.

jn2002dk

The blank screen might just be the start up screen. You can replace this when publishing your game, not sure if it's pro only though

As for tips on android
Well for one there are no IAP or ads in GS for android so consider making a lite version with a link to the full version as suggested above by fadamion

Other things to consider is the fragmentation of handsets - by that i mean there are many different android devices out there. Far more than IOS devices. That means they have varying processing power and android os version so you'll have to take this into account when designing your game

In some countries they're selling 2.X android phones as top of the line while other countries have 4.X by now. Truth be told it's kinda a pain so you can't expect your game to work exactly the same on all android devices

One way to deal with this would be to have both a high end and a low end device to test on if possible

Also, there are more marketplaces than with IOS like the Amazon appstore

fadamion

Well that might be the loading screen? are you paid gamesalad user?

Also i just added my game to android and learned there is no way to make money from gamesalad for android.
So what i did was made a free lite game and url-ed to a paid version of the game.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

You can make money by just selling your game but no ads or IAP YET.