Why You May Not Need a Schedule
How long is that going to take? No doubt many of you engineers have heard this question when a product or marketing guy or pointy hair boss comes wondering when their feature will be done. Let’s look at some of …
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App Rank Drop After First Week – Learn Why This Happens
If you are asking yourself the question “Why does my iOS app rank drop or plummet?”, this article is for you. Many of you have no doubt released an iOS app and seen encouraging rankings during the first week your …
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TexturePacker – A Fast and Easy Utility to Create Spritesheets
I’ve been using TexturePacker to do all the sprite sheets for my iOS games and so far I have been impressed. Simply drag and drop your png files to the app and that’s it. There are plenty of advanced options …
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The Cheapest Dedicated Server
I’m always on the look out for who is providing the cheapest dedicated server. A cheap server means nothing if there is lots of downtime or crappy bandwidth. I’ve had experience using OVH, 1and1 and Codero. OVH by far is …
Make Your Paid App Free to Get Downloads
It is absolutely amazing how making a paid app free will result in exponential increases in downloads. Yesterday (2014-03-14) we made You Doodle Pro free temporarily. It was priced at 2.99 USD and was getting about 20-30 downloads a day. …
iAd vs AdMob
In You Doodle (as of 2014), I have two revenue streams from advertising: iAd and AdMob. I give a simple comparison of AdMob vs iAd below: iAd Pros: – Super easy to integrate (Add an ADBannerView or ADInterstitial, on iOS …
Birdshot is now on the iOS App Store!
Greetings Internet traveler! Birdshot, the insanely difficult yet very rewarding shoot the cartoon birds game is now available for your iOS device. Download Birdshot now
Manual Penalty or Bad Search Algorithm?
This morning I searched on my iOS device for the phrase “Bird Flight” to see where my new Flappy Bird clone ranked. Yesterday it ranked #1 for the phrase “Bird Flight”. Today it is ranked #7 for the phrase “Bird …
Bird Flight is now on the iOS App Store
Bird Flight has been released and is now on the iOS App Store. Try and beat my high score of 73 if you dare!