It's also that, with the other shortcomings of the Market, you need to use your 325 characters to: - describe what's new in the latest version - respond to comments - give special instructions that users may need the first time they run your app - mention hardware limitations - describe this app's relationship to other apps you sell ...and more.
No, in the real world, 325 characters is not enough. String On Aug 19, 9:28 pm, Kostya Vasilyev <[email protected]> wrote: > Right. > > The limit is even more restrictive if you consider other languages. > > Russian tends to need more words and characters than English, and that's > just how this language is, not because I am having difficulties with it :) > > German or Scandinavian languages seem to need more, as well, although this > is just a guess. > > -- > Kostya Vasilyev --http://kmansoft.wordpress.com > > 20.08.2010 0:22 пользователь "TreKing" <[email protected]> написал: > > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Natalie Hooper > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > A "more" ... > > If you don't think so, I don't think your app is very complicated. > > > > > There is no need to butcher the English language, you can express what > > your app does in two o... > > The question is not "can you express what it does" in 325 characters - of > course you can, any imbecile could do that with 25 characters if they had > to. > > No, the question is "can you convey to the user how awesome your app is, > what it's fully capable of, and how it stands out from the competition" in > 325 characters - and I don't think you can for anything but the simplest > app. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------- > ... > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Android Developers" group... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
