The sign up process was easy, and required little effort. When you were registered you could start a project (an App). This was easy and was accomplished by pressing the large New Project button on the right hand side. There you were presented with a page where you could edit your app. All of the settings were organised into groups, and these were accessed with tabs along the top.
Settings - Editing App Info |
Settings - Editing the Activities |
Settings - Add your Style! |
Settings - Advertising and Revenue |
Your app, if it is the Free package, will contain ads. You can however, claim 50% of the Ad Revenue if you have a (Free) Admob account. This was one of the features that really puts it ahead of all of its competitors. With other online tools to make Android apps, the advert revenue will all go to the company. It is amazing that they will spilt the money 50/50 when even Amazon splits the money from its Kindle Blog service 30/70. If you have a Gold upgrade, you can either have all of the revenue, or you can remove ads altogether. You can also add in a Google Analytics account, but that also requires a Gold upgrade.
You can upgrade your app to Gold, for one year, for $99. This only upgrades a single app, and does not upgrade all of your apps. At the moment, Andromo is still on the beta stage, so it is cheaper. When it is out of the beta stage it will be $199 per app. We think that that is a little expensive and your should upgrade your entire account for $99 so all of your apps have the Gold upgrade or charge about $50 per app per year.
Concluding our review, the Andromo app maker does what it says on the tin very well, though it is expensive to upgrade your app. The online interface is good, and allows you to modify colours and styles very well. It is a good tool to use, and the ads are less intrusive than other tools. We would have liked to be able to add a splashscreen to the app as well.
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