Here's my 2nd attempt at writing an Android app, a BugTracker.NET client. It's similar to the BugTracker.NET screen capture utility, in that it lets you post images very easily to your BugTracker.NET website. Take a picture, click the "Post", button, and you're done. It's available in the Android Market for SDK 2.0 phones or better, which means, just Droid and Nexus One right now.
This is what the app looks like after you take a picture. You'll notice that I took a picture of the back of my dog's head. Don't you like the stylish asymetry of his ears?
My first app, the Hacker News Reader was free, but I was hoping to make a gazillion dollars selling this new app. So, I posted it to the Android Market with a price of 99 cents. Immediately after hitting the "Publish" button, I grabbed my phone and navigated to the Android Market so that I could have the psychology reward of seeing the app in the Market. Just click, click and....Huh? Hey, it's not there. Hmmm? Where's my app? Oh wait, I can't see ANY paid apps.
I guess it's related to me having bought only the Nexus One device itself, without the T-Mobile service. Like, maybe Google needs to know what country I'm in and the phone service is their way of indicating that? I don't know. I'll try sticking a $9.99 T-mobile pre-paid SIM card in the phone, and I'll see if that will allow me to see paid apps.
Meanwhile, even thought I might be leaving a gazillion dollars on the table, I have republished the app as a free app. It has already been in the app store a month, so let's take a look at those download stats, shall we?
So far....8 of you have downloaded it and 5 of you haven't deleted it yet.
About those gazillions, I guess it's good I didn't quite my day job.
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