Looking for someone with Exp. in Android and Apple

Feel free to just ask the questions here.

That way you can get a lot of different opinions and views from a variety of people.
Others might also have your same questions but haven't asked them yet or thought of the question.

In answer to question 1:

Google play require you to pay a one off fee, I don't recall what I paid but I think it was around $25.
Apple require you to pay £60 (or $99) each and every year. When you stop paying, your apps are removed from the store.

2:
I have a phone and tablet for both Apple and Android and test directly on them. I have some friends with other phones and tablets who can help test too, which is really useful. I never use the emulators as I find them less than useful.

3:
I find Apple will reject, sometimes with a helpful reason sometimes not. But it is up to you to resolve and fix. Google have not rejected anything I have submitted to date.

4:
You create a merchant account with Google. For both Google and Apple you give them your bank details and they pay in at various intervals.

5:
I believe ads are dependent upon the terms of each Apple / Android store. I don't have much experience here, sure someone will be able to comment.

6:
Depends upon other factors such as taxes etc for your territory. As far as your dealings with Apple and Google you have to comply/accept/submit online forms for tax and export purposes but I found this painless.

7:
My experience is more people on Apple buy stuff. On both it is really hard to get noticed, even with a free app. A publisher may help promote your game so that might be something to consider. We were lucky with our first Apple game and we got featured in a Retro section. That generated loads of downloads. Other apps we have found difficult to get many downloads but then again we are not good at marketing our apps and have not spent a lot of time to do that (it's a sideline for us, not a source of income).

8:
You create a new version and upload. You have to do a bit more on Apple but it's reasonably easy to do.

9:
Good question, if you find the answer please share with us all PS: Please login to see this link. Some people have had great success, many have had some to none. But I love making apps and being able to release them, maybe this time next year I will be a millionaire!

Well that's my experience anyway, hope the above helps.

1) Andy is right. 25 one time fee for Android, $99 a year for Apple

2) I am not sure about Android but iOS's Xcode has an iPhone/ipad emulator. But its always best to test on actual devices. I know you can invite people to test out beta versions of your app on Android and its pretty easy to do. Not sure about iOS

3) Google doesn't review your app. As long as you meet all the criteria and upload a good apk its up on the market right away. It takes a few hours for it to show up on the store though. Apple does review every app (and update) uploaded. It took 7 days for my app to be reviewed. According to the log it took them 4 minutes to review it. But my game is simple.

4) I use Google Admob for my Google ads. Apple made me digitally fill out tax information and contracts. My game is free on both platforms but I have ads running. I think on iOS you can sign up as either an individual (shows your name in the app store) or sign up as a business (more documentation is required for that.

5) Typically if the app is paid you wouldn't include ads. So I would charge like 99¢ or so on iOS. I think they take about 15% of the price. (Same with Google). Ads are more difficult. I would read up on CPC and PCP. I would look it up online because its hard for me to explain on here. Full screen ads are going to make you more as well as clicks. Try not to be too pushy with the ads though. You don't want them to intrude with gameplay

6) Paperwork is done digitally. At least in the US. Can't comment on Germany though. Google sent me a letter in the mail with a PIN to activate on AdSense for ads.

7) I can't really comment. My game has been out on Android for a month and it has over 7,000 downloads. IOS version has only been out a few days and it has about 120.

Its as easy as uploading a new exported project. Google's is easier. Apple has to review your updates which is unfortunate. I've had to push out emergency updates with broken things. On iOS that will be more difficult because it takes a few days for them to approve it.

9) Not sure about paying them directly to get featured. I paid about 10 bucks a day for a week on Admob to advertise my game and it got a ton of downloads (most in the Philippines which is odd. Maybe cause I didn't pay a lot for the ads). You can try submitting your game to review sites to gain exposure as well.

I should add that to publish to iOS you need to buy a Mac that can get the latest Xcode. It's much easier to publish on Android as I had 0 problems doing so, but there's a lot of hoops to get it finally published. It was quite an investment. Let me know if you have more questions!

1. Fusion handles it for you but you have lots of options. You can choose to stretch up / shrink down, preserve aspect ratio, fit inside or fit outside (the last two increases/decreases the window size as needed). In a nutshell it's very flexible and doesn't require you to do much yourself.

2. Bugs in Fusion? The odd one here or there but they tend to get fixed pretty quickly once you report them. Bugs in your own events and game logic - most likely but with the exception of iOS/Android specific features you will be able to debug and fix in either Windows, iOS or Android. You will find for the most part that what you create for Windows should work the same in iOS and Android with little to no modification. If you build and test on your target devices as you go along you will find it pretty easy - any problems can be dealt with as they come up.