Only small Banner Ads used by HeleneApps!

A lot of apps with mobile ads seems to be using the large, pop-up, page ads. I find this very annoying. Our policy will be to ONLY use small banner ads in our apps, as today in Beer List Free and Lotto Draw Quiz.

This is a promise to everyone who are downloading and using our apps!

500 downloads !

A small milestone is reached - the three HeleneApps apps have accumulated been downloaded over 500 times from Google Play!

No errors and working fine!

As presented on Google Play:
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=heleneapps

The apps are:

Beer List (USD 1):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heleneapps.mybeerlist

Beer List Free (free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heleneapps.beerlistfree

Lotto Draw Quiz (free):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heleneapps.mydrawtool

Beer List Free - RELEASED

Today we released the FREE version of Beer List.

Functionality is as of today similar to the commercially available Beer List (at approximately USD 1).

Download the app here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.heleneapps.beerlistfree

Most graphics are similar as well, but the fronpage is totally different:

This version has ads, only as seen here, small banners at page bottoms. Please use them if relevant!

Beer List Free in Beta

Our app BeerList has from the beginning been a paid ap (approxomately USD 1). This is definitely reducing the attractiveness of thee app for large user groups around the world.

The good news is tha Beer List now is in Beta testing as Beer List Free, a free version of Beer List!

Beer List Free will at least initially have the same full functionality as Beer List, no restrictions! There wil be som ads in less annoying places, as an alternative income model.

Some changes to color-schemes and graphics must be expected - to make sure a slightly different look will apply.

NB! There is as of today no upgrade path from Beer List Free to Beer List planned, your database may not be transferred from one app to the other.

Adding MobAds to Lotto Draw Quiz

The preferred business model by users and developers have for a while been ad-based income for the developers, and free aps for the users.

I have now added a small banner-ad in the bottom of the Main Menu and the Set Draw pages (not the Draw pages itself) of Lotot Draw Quiz. I hope it's not too inconvinient, and I hope you find some of the ads interesting!

Pls give feedback on the banner ad experience in Lotto Draw Quiz, especialy if it hampers your user experience. I will not add ads on the drawing result pages. Version 2.3.0 has all the ads planned for Lotto Draw Quiz.

Holiday delays app updates!

We've been away for three weeks on holiday, and I realize that actually at least four weeks have gone since any activities on the apps. Plans are ready and in the works:

• LottoDrawQuiz will soon have Playing Cards draw as well (February)
• BeerList will hopefully soon have statistiscs on beers/week graphics (March)

Android Programming Tips on HeleneApps

As part of the Android Open Source project I would like to share whatever I can of my code / experience with anyone. Mostly I think my code and experience in following basic books and traning, but I might have to sort out code myself.

I would collect these examples in under the tag above: Android Apps Programming Tips

My first entry is actually about the issue of using Google's backup-service. The documentation on this is week in my opinion. I still haven't sorted out how to take backup of a JSON file - I'll post it here if I find out...

Anyway - my first entry is about how to use Google Backup Service for Shared Preference. Direct link to this page is here: Preferences Backup to Google