ExZeus Arcade
Raging Thunder 2
Retro Defense
Robo Defense
Battle for Mars

In the long run, I also think the revenue will be better, as ad money is recurring.

I also don’t have to worry about giving Google 30% for my hard labor, or worry about refunds, billing problems etc.

My games can be found at http://dkdroid.com

New place : Castel Sant’Angelo

see you

As for revenue, I believe that there are only 30-40 apps netting more than $100 a day.

Edward Kim, developer who built the application “Car Locator” has announced that he’s pulling in $13,000 a month from the application.

Here are some of Kim’s observations:

The application was netting an average of about $80-$100/day, until it became a featured app on the Marketplace. Since then, sales have been phenomenal, netting an average of $435/day, with a one day record of $772 on Valentine’s Day. Too bad I didn’t have a Valentines date this year — we would’ve gone somewhere real special!

There appears to be clear peaks on the weekends and during holidays. This was always my hunch, but I think I can finally say this with certainty since the signal-to-noise ratio is much better now.

Some may be quick to point out that a featured Android application is only able to net $400/day, while top iPhone apps make thousands. But the Android market appears to rotate applications in and out of the featured apps list in some psedo-random fashion. Every time I open the Marketplace app, the featured list is different and most of the time, I don’t even see my app on there.

The price of the application was increased from $1.99 to $3.99. I ran a few price experiments and was surprised to see that though I doubled the price of the app, the number of purchases decreased by much less than half. Android users appear to have a willingness to pay more than a couple dollars for apps.

Piracy appears to be an increasing problem. A quick search for Car Locator on Twitter reveals links where people can download the .apk file without paying. I tend to have the same attitude on piracy as Balsamiq, so I’m not too worried about it, but I would love to hear some typical statistics on Android piracy.

On February 26, Google Canada spokesperson Wendy Rozeluk was quoted as saying:

There are many factors that come into play to make sure the selling and purchasing processes run smoothly. It takes time to bring support to more countries, which is something we are working hard to do.