Tweet In the last post we created a sqlite database android application. We saw that the database file is stored in the file system directories of that application meaning that the database cannot be accessed from another application. You can apply the same thing on any resources within your application (Files, images, videos, …). But [...]
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Calculating lifetime value of freemium gamers: finding the revenue per daily active user (RPDAU)
Tweet Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great [...]
Android App Development: Using SQLite database
Tweet Android default Database engine is Lite. SQLite is a lightweight transactional database engine that occupies small amout of disk storage and memory, so its a perfect choice for creating databases on many mobile operating systems such as Android, iOS. Things to consider when dealing with SQLite: Data type integrity is not maintained in SQLite, [...]
The number one business metric for freemium games: lifetime value, know it well
Tweet Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great [...]
Android App Development: View Flipper and Sliding drawer
Tweet In this post we’re going to see two interesting controls in Android: ViewFlipper and SlidingDrawer. View Flipper: Suppose you want to display a news bar in your activity. this news bar displays a single news item at a time then flips and shows next item and so on, then your choice would be Android’s [...]
Mastering freemium game mechanics series: social alerts
Tweet Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i that invests in the development and marketing/distribution of freemium mobile games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing apps with over 500 million apps distributed for W3i clients. Recharge Studios is actively seeking new investment opportunities, if you have a great [...]
Android App Development: Using Toasts and Alerts
Tweet Android offers two methods to display messages to the user: Toasts and Alerts. in this post we’re going to explore both of them. Toasts: toasts are pop up messages that lasts for a certain duration and then disappear. a Toast is a transient message that appears and disappears without any interaction from the user [...]
iOS Development Tutorial Series: PickerViews & More
Tweet Hello, and welcome to another iOS Development tutorial. Today we are going to learn about UIPickerViews and how to switch viewcontrollers (I’ll explain what that is later). I’ll start off by explaining that picker views work fairly the same way as table views, so if you did the last tutorial then you should have [...]
Android App Development: Gallery Control
Tweet In Android the Gallery control is a selection control that displays items in a horizontal gallery. the items in the gallery appear beside each other. they can appear separated by a pre-defined space. we can use the gallery to display String items using a simple ArrayAdapter. so let’s see how to create a gallery [...]
Mastering freemium game mechanics series: discounting alerts
Tweet Matt Tubergen heads Recharge Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of W3i. Recharge Studios is an iOS investment fund that subsidizes the development and marketing/distribution of freemium iOS games. W3i is a market leader in distributing and monetizing mobile apps, social applications, web applications and browser add-ons. Recharge Studios is part of a suite of [...]
