one platform foundation: publishing to multiple appstores simplified

Timur DyussebayevAndroid developer relations

OPF: Publishing to multiple app stores simplified

• Google Play is not the only store

• Why publish anywhere else?

• What challenges do we have

Appstores on Android

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Over 20 Android app stores

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• Don’t miss the devices without Google Play

• Better app discoverability/exposure• Larger geo spread

Why publish anywhere else?

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Millions of devices without Google Play worldwide

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Amazon has 11.5% of WW tablet sales*

* - IDC

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SlideME is exclusive on 20M+ devices*

* - SlideME data

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Korea: T-Store 18.5M users, 1.1B downloads*

* - SK Planet press release

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Russia: Credit card? No, thank you!

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Russia: Yandex.Store - direct carrier billing with

all major carriers

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App distribution in China

The West China*

* - TechCrunch

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China Mobile MM: 149M users, 1.92B downloads

* - TechCrunch

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It’s essential to look at alternative appstores, but

1. Need to solve appstore publishing (time consuming)

2. Need to solve in-app billing (time consuming)

Let’s do it?

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OPF is about solving them

A format to ease developer’s life

1. AppDF

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How things stand

• Publishing to each store is time consuming:

• APK• Screenshots• Description• Changelog

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It would take up to 1 day to update an app in all

appstores

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AppDF is an open file format that packages:

• APK• Description• App icon• Screenshots• Promo images

App Description File Format (AppDF)

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description.xml demo

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All of this can be done using AppDF Editor

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A single in-app billing API

2. Open In-app Billing

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• In-app billing is not a part of Android• Different stores – different APIs

Problems: Billing APIs

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• AppDF: Specification v1.0• AppDF: Editor• AppDF: libs for parsing AppDF• Open IAB: demo app with all in-app

billings implemented

What is available today?

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• Try AppDF. 2 stores support it• Give us feedback • Check out Open IAB on Github• If you like it… contribute • And enjoy a less painful alternative store

experience

Join us

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Timur Dyussebayev@onepf_org

Questions?

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