My adventure with Android

My adventure with Android began as a user in 2009 when I acquired the HTC G1, marketed under the name Dream. Immediately seduced by Android, I decided to start developing Android applications.

Of course, Android was not then what it has become today, so I felt like I was at the beginning of a unique adventure. This was the case when you see the phenomenal success of Android over the past decade.

Working as a Java developer at that time, I naturally decided to take the plunge and download everything I needed to try to develop Android applications. At the very beginning, I only developed applications for my own needs. Then, listening to my friends’ advice, I decided in August 2011 to pay to get a publisher account on the Android Market (the ancestor of the Google Play Store) in order to go further in the adventure.

My first Android application published was FastMeteo

That’s how I launched my modest FastMeteo weather application in September 2011. At that time, competition was much less fierce on the Android Market. There were very few weather applications, for example.

To my great surprise, the success was instantaneous and I quickly found myself with several hundred downloads per day and more than a thousand active users of my weather application. After a few months, I decided to test the integration of the AdMob SDK into my application.

FastMeteo’s success pushes me to continue my efforts and I invest more deeply in the development of Android applications of all kinds to meet the needs of the people around me and those of Android users:

Daily Horoscope

Sudoku

Abacus

Piano

App for learning French Traffic Laws

NFC Reader

CPU Hardware & System Info

SIM Card Info

CPU Benchmark

Word Search Puzzle

Kakuro

Fifteen Puzzle

Weather applications by country

Football Scores per league

Discount Calculator

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As you can see, my number of applications has only been limited by my imagination. While my Google Play Publisher account has just been finished by Google, I take a look at the statistics about me on AppBrain and I realize that I have created 262 Android applications over the past 10 years:

I am also surprised to see that my applications have totalled more than 4 million downloads on the Google Play Store with an average score of 4.45/5.

Among my applications, there were weather applications created specifically for each country as well as applications giving football scores by league. This practice seemed allowed to me in 2012 when I started creating these applications and I had never had any feedback from Google on the subject.

A recent update, dated November 2019, from what I understand, of the policy on repetitive content in the Google Play Store seems to have changed the situation and I have clearly not paid enough attention to the issue.