Android Developer's Blog

Looking For Co-Author

2014-03-20T22:39:00.001-05:00

Hi guys, I'm looking for someone to help me keep up on this blog. Anyone want to volunteer? That would be fantastic! Remember, you'd be a part of something larger than yourself! Comment on this post if you're interested.

Promoting your Android App Part 3

2013-05-25T04:20:00.001-05:00

Okay, this is one of the greatest tools for promoting ANYTHING! If you haven't checked out IFTTT, then you have got to check it out right now!

http://youtu.be/NdP9C5ymMzU

It's Been a Long Time

2013-05-25T03:59:00.002-05:00

Hello everyone! I know it's been a very long time since I have posted anything. The truth is, Android development has kind of come to a halt for me at this point. I am very knowledgeable and would still like to continue making apps but I have found it's a very underpaid job. It is extremely difficult to make any significant amount of money on Android apps. That's why I made this blog, in hopes that it would help others who are struggling to make it in the app business. The hardest part is that over 75% of the money made on apps is from Apple but the Android market is by far the largest app market in the world. Android is mostly all free though. I have come to find that the best way to make money is from ads (or in-app purchasing) but I haven't tried that yet. Ads are the number one way people make money off Android apps though. There is no doubt in my mind. When you play an app half the time you click on annoying ads by accident but who the hell forks over the cash for in-app purchases? Probably about the same amount of people willing to fork over money for an app in the first place (which isn't very many people when you are dealing with Android.) I have always hoped that someday I could make Android development a success. I have no start-up money and nobody to help me create the apps. It is simply me, trying to make a little bit of money on the side. It's hard to do without resources. That's why I am hoping some of the resources listed in my previous posts will help others out in making their dreams come true. I also hope that people will want to return the favor and help me out in return. Please leave any comments about any great knowledge in the app business. I don't do iOS. That shit's way too expensive. Android only! Please comment, make suggestions, leave tips, etc. I also have an idea to turn this blog into an app. Does anyone think that would be helpful in any way? If so, I will probably do it. If not, it's not worth my time. I know people are reading this blog but this blog doesn't make me a dime even with ads. I honestly don't even know if the ads are worth it on here. AdSense is not very lucrative. I am making much more off my apps and even that is an extremely tiny amount. I know you all need help with getting started in this business and I'm still learning as well. Please keep that in mind and try to leave helpful suggestions for me and other readers of this blog. Thank you. Have a wonderful night!

Nexus 7 Developer Options

2013-03-18T17:02:00.005-05:00

Here's how to unlock the developer options on the Google Nexus 7. You simply go to settings --> about phone --> and then click on build number like 7 times. Here's a link to a video. Unlock Nexus 7 Developer Options

Just got android nexus 7!

2013-02-19T16:18:00.001-06:00

Despite the fact that I'm still living at the motel, I just got my nexus7 in the mail! I am hoping this will allow me to learn much more about making android apps and improve my apps from a developer's perspective. Well that's about the just of it. I gtg give my wife a ride to work right now. Please click on some ads. I definitely need some revenue. So far, I am not making much money, but I hope with time more will come. I also put a lot of effort into trying to help others. Have a great night everyone!

So... I'm Living in a motel...

2013-02-09T23:17:00.003-06:00

So, I'm living in a motel right now and it's just this sketchy little place where everything is crap. There is a positive side, however, the internet works better here then it did at our old apartment. The worst news is... We got screwed by our landlord and now I have to wait until Monday to get some more money. I scrapped a car for $250 and that's coming through on Monday. I'm also waiting for some checks in the mail, direct deposits, etc.... I have plenty of money coming... but right now I'm in the gutter. I just moved all my shit to a MOTEL, not a hotel, a freaking motel.... and I agreed to no maid and it's all dirty and stuff.... but it does have a mini fridge, microwave, and table with two chairs. There are also two beds... One twin and one double.... That would be great, except right now my kids are taking up all those beds, which is probably why I am sitting here posting about my boring life on Android Developers Blog. I also waste a bunch of time on the Poke My Gummy Blog. I don't know why I do either one of them sometimes, but then I realize it's because I have to. I want to help other people like me who aspire to become an Android Developer. And, of course, the Poke My Gummy Blog is just a way of advertising some of my apps and then I wrote a bunch of crap on there, sort of, as well... to see if it would get any results and so far it's got like 2,000 hits, but that's not very much... I can't make a dime off that probably. Same for this blog. Anyway, my 'wife' finally came and took the girls off the big bed and left my son here, which is fine with me. Now I can go lay in the big bed and sleep. I'm sorry... I can't fall asleep knowing someone's coming #1. #2 I can't fall asleep with the kids awake because I'm worried about what they'll do if I do fall asleep before them. And there's definitely a number #3 but I'm not even going to go there. I'm tired as a mother f'er. Alright, good night everyone. Oh yea, I have to make sure this shit is only for 18 years or older (haha yea right) like 7 year olds don't know how to run computers anyway... some of them do. My son doesn't, because I don't let him touch that shit. No way in hell am I going to let him fuck up my computer. You know that's what kids do to your computers right people? Seriously, people need to listen to me. This shit's true. I've experienced it since I was like 7 years old myself. I broke a computer or two... then I became a computer master. Now I am a computer guru. I am not, yet, however, a Doctor of Computer Science. I have my A.A.S. in Computer Science and Network Technology. I've gone way beyond the stuff we did in school though. Clearly, I have these two blogs and I started my own app business. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, goodnight everyone. I know I've been rambling on forever. I'm out. Later.

Happy Valentines Day

2013-02-03T10:54:00.001-06:00

I have just released a new app called Gummy Pop Valentines Day. Check it out at http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brndev.gummypopvalentinesdayedition

It's free.

New Anddev RebelMouse Front Page

2013-02-02T14:32:00.001-06:00

Check out our new RebelMouse page!

Check it out at http://rebelmouse.com/anddev

Put the Internet to Work For You with IFTTT

2013-02-02T13:20:00.001-06:00

Check out IFTTT (If this, then that). Here is a screenshot of some of my recipes. Basically, I post to this blog and it goes everywhere. That's the idea anyway. Put the internet to work for you. It's almost too easy!

http://ifttt.com

Why AdMob is #1 in Monetizing

2013-01-28T17:48:00.001-06:00

It speaks for itself... It saves so much time in messing with integrating multiple ad networks sdks into your app. You just have to add the jar and that's it. Then you can screw with the settings and ad networks later once your app is already on the market, as you start to see results. It's easier to sort through the pieces and find good ad networks. AdMob is definitely an indie's #1 priority in monetizing. The only tough part is... you can have several different size banners, which means you need multiple layouts... but... you should have multiple layouts anyway... right?!? Haha. That was a joke. It's hard for 1 person to run a business... all that being said... here are the screenshots from admob....

...as I stated earlier... it speaks for itself.

P.S. - You can also spread your audience with AdMob house ads. Check it out for yourself in the admob dashboard.

Gummy Pop Full Version for Free

2013-01-21T20:21:00.002-06:00

Title: Gummy Pop

New Price: Free

Description:

Bubble pop with gummy bears!!! Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop the gummy bears!!! Popping gummy bears is so much fun!! Six levels of bubble pop action with three modes of pop, poppin' fun!! Also including kids mode for easy bubble pop, poppin' and freeplay for infinite gummy bear pop, pop, pop, pop, poppin' excitement!!! Never have you seen a bubble pop game like this!!!

Screenshots:

Download from Google Play Store.

Go Free or Go Home (Android)

2013-01-21T17:28:00.002-06:00

I have decided that when it comes to Android, it's an easy decision whether to go free or paid. Free is the only way to go. Paid isn't even an option. There are way too many free apps already and most of them are already tough competetitors. Nobody who uses Android wants to PAY for an app. Android users want apps for FREE. I understand why most Android users feel this way, looking at it from my consumer's perspective, myself. I would like to get myself a Google Nexus 7. My wife has a Galaxy Tab 2 (7") and I also have a (half-broken) Galaxy Tab 32gb (10.1"). My point is, as users of Android ourselves we have really noticed that free apps are the only apps we look for. Paid apps sounds ridiculous on Android. There are so many free websites with app stores that you can promote your free apps on. For a list of app sites/stores that you can distribute your free Android apps on, see my post. The Biggest List of Android Markets/Stores. Check it out. It's pertinent information if you are a self-employed app developer. In light of the "free apps movement", as I'm going to call it, I am making all of my apps free. I will post them with icons and screenshots in my next post. However, keep in mind, we are still working to make better icons and get better screenshots. In the meantime... just play free games! That's what it's all about right?! Free entertainment!

Guide the the App Galaxy

2013-01-09T21:49:00.000-06:00

I just found this and thought it was neat. It was mostly common sense to me but it does have some useful information. Check it out. http://www.guidetotheappgalaxy.com/#/developersguide/

Here are some screenshots:

Happy New Year!

2013-01-09T16:10:00.000-06:00

Just want to say Happy New Year to everyone since I wasn't around during that time. Hope all your resolutions come true.

Good luck on your app distribution/development in 2013 everyone! Hopefully we'll see some huge advances in technology this year! I'm certain we will!

New Co-Author for Blog!

2013-01-09T15:09:00.000-06:00

Yay! I'm so excited to announce we have another developer who is becoming a co-author to this blog! Her e-mail address is roxynels15@gmail.com and she is my wife! Her name is Roxanna Nelson, but you can call her Roxy! Welcome to the team Roxy and thank you so much for participating in authoring this blog!

This is our logo that Roxy made her first semester in graphic design. She is excellent with art. Thank you Roxy! And everyone get excited! Because 2 authors are better than one! Haha.

The New Apptimizer Tool From AppBrain

2013-01-08T10:31:00.001-06:00

This is a screenshot of the Apptimizer tool from AppBrain. I have to go. Check out appbrain.com/apptimizer for more info.

Sorry... I've Been So Busy

2013-01-07T09:42:00.001-06:00

With the holidays and everything I haven't had much time to contribute to this blog. I've been having some health issues as well. I have even been missing #appdevchat on Thursdays. I just thought I'd get on here though since I finally got everything taken care of for the holidays and family, etc. and I wanted to let everyone know that I'm still here and still plan on keeping this blog up to date. I have tons of incredible information about Android development and I am happy to share as much of it as I can with anyone who cares to take interest in it. Anyway, I don't have a whole lot of time right now but I would like to mention a few very important things that have taken place very recently. First off, TapForTap redesigned their entire company and it is definitely for the best. There are so many more features than there were prior to this latest update with their new SDK. Also, AppBrain is the fucking shit dude. If you don't think using AppBrain to work with your apps in, at least, one way or another, then you're probably not very intelligent. AppBrain has incredible features... and so many of them. Which leads me to my next point... Apptimizer. It's the greatest thing to happen for SEO since google invented Google WebMaster Tools. Except, in my opinion, Apptimizer owns Webmaster Tools because Android is the future and we all know that which is why you are here reading this developer's blog. I tell you what, you can do anything if you set your mind to it... all I've got is an Associate's degree in Computer Science and Network Technology... and I figured out how to build my own business. I have started building the foundation of the empire. I just have to finish the rest....

Happy Holidays everyone!

The Big List of Android Sub-Reddits

2012-09-11T16:55:00.000-05:00

The Big List of Android Sub-Reddits

Sweet, I just hit the jack-pot on android sub-reddits. Here they are.

http://www.reddit.com/r/anddev/new/?sort=new (Please post here, new community I created for us devs.)

http://www.reddit.com/r/AbsolutelyAndroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/airandroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/anddev/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndEngine/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/

http://www.reddit.com/r/android2/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android_Apps/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidbuds/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidDevelopers/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidFeedback/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGamers/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidGaming/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidmania/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidmarket/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidnomod/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidProTips/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidRoms/

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidroot/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidTablets

http://www.reddit.com/r/androidtutorials/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroTinker/

http://www.reddit.com/r/AppInventor/

http://www.reddit.com/r/apps/

http://www.reddit.com/r/BestAndroidApps/

http://www.reddit.com/r/channelandroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleAndroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/incredibleandroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/learnandroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/loveandroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/MobileGaming/

http://www.reddit.com/r/myandroidapp/

http://www.reddit.com/r/noapple/

http://www.reddit.com/r/TeamAndroid/

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/

Note: Some of these sub-reddits may be useful to you, while others may prove useless. Don't expect all of them to be worthwhile. However, I have provided many links so you can weed through them very quickly and find the ones most relevant to you/your app.

Promoting Your Android App Part 2

2012-09-11T16:46:00.000-05:00

As we have seen, there a literally dozens of ways to promote an app. Some of the ways we have talked about so far are: mass distribution (through many stores), promoting your app in forums, creating a website, hosting your app on fileshares, distributing apps as torrents, and starting a blog. We have also talked a wee bit about social sharing, but today I'd like to talk about that a little bit more. The importance of social sharing is phenomenal when it comes to marketing your apps. The other day, my brother in-law came over and told my wife and I that some girl made a video of herself playing our game on Facebook. Sometimes, we tend to overlook some of the obvious things: start a Fan Page, etc. What I am saying is, you really SHOULD have a fan page for your business, at least, and maybe even a few for individual apps. Creating a Facebook fan page can be huge for business. You can find out more about fan pages here: https://www.facebook.com/pages. Another, possibly even more powerful than Facebook pages, useful tool is Google+/Google Pages. Create a page on Google+, you won't regret it. You can even link it to your Blogger account so when you blog it automatically gets posted to your page. More information about Google+ Pages can be found here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/pages/manage. Also, if you are trying to make it big in Android, you shouldn't spend all your free time blogging about developing. Haha. Jk. Anyway, some other things you should consider are: posting links to Digg, Reddit, Delicious, Pinterest, RebelMouse, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Blogger, etc. One more thing I'd like to mention, which of course most of you have probably heard of, is cross-promotion. One of the BEST ways to promote your app (or anything for that matter) for free, is to exchange advertising for advertising, of course, our good friends at TapForTap can surely help you out with that. I will write an article about them later. They deserve it, if you haven't seen it yet, check out TapForTap, now. There is also a Mega-Post of all android/r/ developer's apps on Reddit, which can be found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rdfdn/megapost_of_all_apps_created_by_randroid/

Links For Promoting Android Apps

http://r.tapfortap.com/2V3nf

http://facebook.com

https://www.facebook.com/pages

http://plus.google.com

https://plus.google.com/u/0/pages/manage

http://gplus.to (shortlinks for google pages)

http://stumbleupon.com

http://su.pr

http://rebelmouse.com

http://deliciou.us

http://pinterest.com

http://github.com

http://sourceforge.net

http://code.google.com

http://filefactory.com

http://rapidshare.com

http://thepiratebay.se

http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-list-of-app-markets.html

http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/promoting-free-apps.html

http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/alternative-forms-of-distribution.html

http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/promoting-your-android-app-part-1.html

Promoting Your Android App Part 1

2012-09-10T18:18:00.000-05:00

Today I want to talk a little about promoting your Android app in general. I will also provide links to many valuable resources for promoting your apps. There are loads of ways to promote your app. One way I have talked about previously is to submit your app to alternative markets (markets other than Google Play). I posted a massive list I have accumulated while searching for alternative forms of distribution. The list can be found in the original post, which is available here: http://anddev.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-list-of-app-markets.html. Another form of promotion is to submit your app to forums. I have also written a previous post about that, as well as distributing through fileshares, torrents, etc. However, there are some other ways I haven't discussed. Some of them being very important to promoting your app. One of the most important ways to promote your app that every developer should definitely have, at least one of, is a website. Having a website helps promote your app, helps users find to your app and information about all of your apps, and helps increase SEO of your app on the web (and by SEO I, of course, mean search engine optimization). Also, if you have a website, you can promote the website, which in turn, promotes your app(s). One the absolute BEST ways to promote your website is through StumbleUpon and also their su.pr shortlink service. Another one, that will also help with SEO, is to submit your site to Digg and Reddit. There is one more great way to promote your app that I'd like to talk about before I give you the list of sites to help with your promotion, and that is, through a blog. Having a blog can, easily, be one of the greatest ways you can promote your app for free. If you want to see an example check out our "Poke My Gummy Blog", a blog based off our simplest game on which we now post information about all of our gummy games.

Promote Your App/Site

http://stumbleupon.com

http://androidzoom.com

http://latestandroidapps.net

http://mobilestartupz.com

http://reddit.com

http://digg.com

http://rebelmouse.com

http://reddit.com/r/android

http://twitter.com

http://mobileappsgallery.com

http://mobile9.com

http://everythingandroid.org

http://mobiles24.com

http://androidpit.com

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com

http://new.bestandroiddownloads.com

http://pastebay.net

http://android.pastebay.net

http://pastebin.com

http://sourceforge.net

http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/rdfdn/megapost_of_all_apps_created_by_randroid/

http://androidtapp.com

http://www.playandroid.com

more to come....

5 Reasons To Use AppLift

2012-09-09T11:06:00.000-05:00

If you haven't heard of it yet, where have you been? Everyone knows about AppBrain by now right? How could you not? Well, if you haven't go check it out now http://www.appbrain.com/, otherwise continue reading. So, I'm assuming we've all heard of AppBrain at this point, but what you might not know, or maybe you just don't know that much about it yet, is the AppLift SDK. The AppLift SDK is an amazingly powerful set of tools for your android apps. Here's why:

#1. Track your downloads - Track your downloads across all markets, stores, even fileshares, personal websites, you name it; all in one place. Once you have integrated the AppLift SDK, which requires merely importing the .jar file, adding it to your build path, adding an activity and a few permissions and slapping in one measly command in your java file and your all set; then you can track all of your downloads on 50 different markets (or however many you're on) without having to go from website to website, dashboard to dashboard, logging in over, and over, just to check your stats... and then try to do what? Write them all down and add them all up? Are you freakin' kidding me? No way! AppBrain is essential to keeping track of your download progress and so, so easy to integrate. Get it.

#2. Monetize your app - There are many ways to monetize your app now, one of them being AppLift. Their interstitials, I'd say, beat their banners for sure, however their banners can be integrated with AdMob which, of course, is always a plus. One of the great things about their ads is also that they have a nice selection of apps for users to choose from, many of them being pretty decent games. Putting their interstitials in your game at various intervals has proven to be the best way to get revenue for me so far.

#3. Use remote settings - This should probably be #2 on my list, but I haven't really used this feature to it's full potential, yet. AppBrain's remote settings feature allows you to set values as strings in your developer dashboard and retrieve them for use in your app. This is such a fantastic feature they offer and so easy to use. You can set custom messages that you can change daily in your dashboard on all your apps across all markets without even releasing an update. There are, literally, thousands of ways you could make use of this feature. This one is definitely worth getting.

#4. View detailed statistics - The charts for AppBrain's reports are awesome. There are graphs of daily downloads for each game. They also have ad reports and stats. Another thing hey show is your active users for the day and the percentage increased (or decreased) from the week prior. It's great to see how many downloads you get on each app, each day, along with the number of active users. It also shows total installs for the day among all apps and total revenue from AppBrain. Basically, the statistics in the AppBrain dashboard are more detailed than any others I've seen.

#5. Integrate with AdMob - I know I already said this earlier, but this deserves to have it's own section on the top 5 reasons to use AppLift. You can show AppBrain banners using AdMob, including them in your rotation of regular banners. Integrating with AdMob is everything. Seriously, if you are using one ad network for banners, you're doing it wrong; get AdMob and throw in several different ad networks. That way you get better rotation and better variety. The best part is, you can just watch how your apps are doing and adjust AdMob accordingly. Thus, you can make adjustments to your app without releasing updates. AdMob is another great thing. Maybe I should write the top 5 reasons to use AdMob. Anyway, I'll leave it at that. Get AppBrain AppLift SDK.

Get it here:: https://developers.appbrain.com/info/sdk

Alternative Forms of Distribution

2012-09-08T16:11:00.002-05:00

There are many forms of alternative app distribution. I would like to talk about a few of them here: the first one (one I like best) is SourceForge. SourceForge is an amazing site for distributing free software. You can upload your .apk file and you can also push your code to a repo using git if you choose to. You can even upload screenshots and provide other metadata such as description and icon. It creates several very nice pages for you, including: a summary page, code page, download page, and wiki page. Some examples are shown here: summary, files, wiki, code. There is even a page for reviews! SourceForge is great and it is a wonderful distribution channel. Sign up at https://sourceforge.net/. Another thing you can do is: if you are already pushing your source code to SourceForge, you might as well go ahead and push it to github too. All you have to do is change the remote url and push again. e.g. git remote set-url origin https://brandonlnelson@github.blahblahblah.git, then git push origin master. You can take a look at my github projects here: https://github.com/brandonlnelson. There are a couple decent fileshares out there as well. I put some of my apps on 4shared and Uploaded. Another way to distribute your apps is through torrents. This could, potentially, work quite well, however you have to be able to seed well enough to spread the apk out there. Unfortunately, my internet sucks, so it doesn't work that well for me. If you make a torrent of your .apk, you can upload the torrent and post a screenshot/description on The Pirate Bay. Oh, I almost forgot, you can also paste your code on sites such as PasteBay and PasteBin. I'm trying to start a small dev group on PasteBay at http://android.pastebay.net, so check that out, if you would, please. It would be great if I could get some people to start sharing code on that sub-domain. Sort of a public/private kind of thing. A small inside group of developers brought together through means of public access, that is my goal. So, now you have several more distribution channels. Get to work, bitches. Hahaha. Just kidding. Hope this information is helpful to you all. :)

Promoting Free Apps

2012-09-08T15:47:00.001-05:00

As many of you may know, promoting your apps can, easily, be the most difficult part of success in the app industry. There are many ways to promote your app. I'd like to talk about one of those ways and give all of you some links to help you with the process. What am I talking about? Forums. Promoting your app in forums can drive just as many downloads as some of the markets themselves! And, even if it doesn't drive a huge number of downloads, it will DEFINITELY get you a whopping number of views. Views are also very valuable, in case you didn't realize. The amount of views you get determines the amount of people that KNOW OF your app. Of course, it is only common sense that the more people who know your app exists, the more downloads you will, probably, get (unless you have a really shitty app). Seriously though, come on... who has an app that bad? Almost all apps get downloads, unless they are REALLY bad or unless they utilize not well-known tools/etc. For instance: I have an app called 'Folding Stats' which checks your statistics for Folding@Home. There are a few people who find it useful (although it needs an update), but most people don't even know what Folding@Home is, therefore it doesn't get all that many downloads. In this case, it doesn't really matter that it's not getting many downloads since I just made it for a school project last year anyway. Not to mention it only supports Android OS 3.1+ which is pretty high compared to the devices I usually support but it's not an app for phones and no tablets were made before Android 3.1 (that I know of anyway).

So, getting to the point, here is my list of forums that allow you to promote FREE android apps. Some of them allow you to promote paid ones too, but beware, you could easily get banned if they do not allow paid promotion and you post a paid app. Anyway, I've done all the work for you guys and weeded out the ones that ban you for advertising you app, period (including free apps).

Android Forums Big List

http://www.acertabletforum.com/

http://www.anddev.org/

http://www.androidcentral.com/

http://forum.pandaapp.com/board/2-11-0-38-1-1.html (Haven't tried)

http://www.androidpit.com/en/android/forum

http://www.androidtablets.net/

http://www.transformerforums.com/

http://www.everythingandroid.org/

http://www.htconeforum.com/ (Haven't tried)

http://www.kindle-fireforum.com/

http://makingmoneywithandroid.com/forum/

http://forum.mobiles24.com/

http://www.razrforums.com/forum/register.php

I guess that's it... holy s#!t, I guess I've got banned from a bunch of forums. I don't know why, but oh well... f*** it. You should be able to promote in more forums, apparently I just don't know what I'm doing or something. You can find many more Android forums on Google.