On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Bret Foreman <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've built a ContentProvider app that wraps up a set of web services and > presents them for use by other apps. May I ask what services, out of curiosity? If other developers decide to use my ContentProvider app, what is the > simplest business model for selling it? No idea and probably not the best forum for business model questions in general. > I'd like to avoid complex licensing and reselling agreements with the > developers and just have something in the Marketplace that can be bundled > along with the main app and I just get a cut of the purchase. Any ideas how > this might be done? > Well if you're going to rely on the AM, you can't "bundle" your app with other 3rd party apps. Via this route, you would put your app on the Market and developers would inform their users that your app is required for X feature and link to the app where the user could download it. Of course, knowing users .... you will suffer for putting out an "app" that doesn't actually do anything (check out the "Radar" app - dead simple, but users don't get it). Also, any developer that opts to use your app will suffer for directing the user to an add on they have to pay for. If the 3rd party app they use is free, they would expect yours to be free. If they paid for the 3rd party app, they would not want to pay again for added functionality. Also, you'd have to make a dev version of the app for devs to test and build against, which has it's own issues. Don't mean to be negative, but I can't imagine that many developers would be interested in this to make it worth the effort ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TreKing <http://sites.google.com/site/rezmobileapps/treking> - Chicago transit tracking app for Android-powered devices -- 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
