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Graphics Designer Needed. Any amount of experience welcome!

Hello! Thanks for stopping by! I'm making an app with a friend of mine and we both are terrible at making graphics (we both code). The game is a simple dice game yet what sets it apart from other dice games is online play and a level of polish above the rest. Our code is pretty polished, even in its humble beginnings, so we are looking for a graphics designer who is willing to help show to users a polished interface.
We don't care how much experience you have as long as you're willing to learn (we can't teach you though obviously). The only thing we ask for is that you give at least 3 hours a week to the project. I believe that is not a lot to ask for. We are doing this project as a hobby and we hope to add another member (or two) to our team. Once again thank's for your time.
If you would like to know more about the app please post in the thread so other people can benefit from the information and if you have more personal questions feel free to PM me.

I'm actually interested. if it's not too time consuming I will gladly give it a try.
you can take a look at my deviant art profile to see what graphic works i normally do
http://aoisora9x.deviantart.com/
send me an email @ [email protected] if you want to contact me.

i do lots of traditional paper and pen design then move it over to digital paint.
let me know if you need some help and what your ideas and i'll toss up a few test designs you can look over.
i do very little in terms of actual 3d renders and modeling.
deviant art gallery
@sora:
nice gallery btw.

Aoi_sora9x said:
I'm actually interested. if it's not too time consuming I will gladly give it a try.
you can take a look at my deviant art profile to see what graphic works i normally do
http://aoisora9x.deviantart.com/
send me an email @ [email protected] if you want to contact me.
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Nice Deadmau5 head

not hijacking, but it'd be really cool to see resources designers kicking around here make. which could then be used in projects by devs. just putting something out there will encourage others to use it. ie. icons and so on.

MarkusPO said:
not hijacking, but it'd be really cool to see resources designers kicking around here make. which could then be used in projects by devs. just putting something out there will encourage others to use it. ie. icons and so on.
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The only problem with that is that some people don't like other people to use their work. It's the same thing with code (i.e. open source or not). In any case it would be better to submit work you would like to share on Open Clip Art instead of a thread that would be hard to upkeep and search through.
pxldtz said:
i do lots of traditional paper and pen design then move it over to digital paint.
let me know if you need some help and what your ideas and i'll toss up a few test designs you can look over.
i do very little in terms of actual 3d renders and modeling.
deviant art gallery
@sora:
nice gallery btw.
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The time it will take depends on you're proficiency with creating buttons backgrounds and stuff like that. Right now I have three people that want to work on this and I always had in mind to have different themes for this app. I'm going to ask Aoi_sora9x if he won't mind other people making other different themes. I will get back to you as soon as I can.

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The only problem with that is that some people don't like other people to use their work. It's the same thing with code (i.e. open source or not). In any case it would be better to submit work you would like to share on Open Clip Art instead of a thread that would be hard to upkeep and search through.
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i thoroughly disagree! so if a designer didn't want to share, they're not forced to post whatever they've made on here. and as xda is a large community, you never know who could be reading about your work. maybe a new forum would be best.

I think the main reason is that XDA is a developer forum and not a designer forum?
artists and designers mostly will post on art forums, like how developers will only share stuffs on developer forums. When i wanna share a new icon set, XDA is not the first place i would think of. :/

MarkusPO said:
i thoroughly disagree! so if a designer didn't want to share, they're not forced to post whatever they've made on here. and as xda is a large community, you never know who could be reading about your work. maybe a new forum would be best.
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True. The new forum idea has potential.

I would like to try that, too..
My deviantART profile: http://kanttii.deviantart.com
email: [email protected]
I'm not good with 3D modeling, but I like to create interfaces.

Please delete this

Please delete this thread. Re-doing in another form that will accommodate more growth.

Really great!!! Thanks a lot!
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If you want it to be stickied PM the xperia play forum moderator

Very good dude! I'll help you update this. But we should categorize them somehow. You know, by how good the games are, or the typ of games, or from which company so it's easier to find. Send me a PM if you want help

_terror_ said:
Very good dude! I'll help you update this. But we should categorize them somehow. You know, by how good the games are, or the typ of games, or from which company so it's easier to find. Send me a PM if you want help
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Genre would be a good place to start, and you could include the market rating

_terror_ said:
Very good dude! I'll help you update this. But we should categorize them somehow. You know, by how good the games are, or the typ of games, or from which company so it's easier to find.
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I'm actually working on genre, developer and rating right now, as well as a couple more things such as direct market links to any given game of question and I'm making a custom account I can use to host images so that I won't have to worry about someone else's hosting database too... I may keep or scrap the idea for images since that could turn cumbersome. I'll see how things pan out.
What's here now was just a very basic list to get things started. Keep suggestions coming though, I'm always looking for help - especially on gathering all the market ratings!

Superb thread! I was going to start one but never got around to it!
Are you adding images and links too all the games on the list?

FK1983 said:
Superb thread! I was going to start one but never got around to it!
Are you adding images and links too all the games on the list?
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Yep, workin' on it. It's taking time because I'm hunting and hosting all the images myself, copying all the recent ratings, seeing which has free versions/doesn't, and finding all hi-quality pictures to scale down to a 640 width rule for the sake of aesthetics and bandwidth-efficiency. Soon enough, they will all have ratings, links, pictures... and if I don't work myself to death, some will get videos too!
I can almost guarantee it won't be finished tonight. Girlfriend's already hinting that she wants to spend some time tonight and I got a meeting early the morning after. I'll update as much as I can today and keep piecing it together... all in due time, it'll come together into something beautiful

AndroHero said:
If you want it to be stickied PM the xperia play forum moderator
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Who is that, btw? I've been hunting around and the closest I found was a retired forum moderator... dunno what to make of the *retired* thing.

When moving apps to the SD card,I noticed the app(game in this case,Aspalt 6) runs slower than usual.
I'm using Titanium Backup,is ADB the same thing?

GetPatriotized said:
When moving apps to the SD card,I noticed the app(game in this case,Aspalt 6) runs slower than usual.
I'm using Titanium Backup,is ADB the same thing?
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I doubt you will notice any diffrence even a class 1 SD Card has a 500mb/s+ read speed, plus lower class cards have higher random access latencies

Ah hell... already hit a roadblock... I can only have 60 images per post.
I can cut out the picture ratings, but either way I slice it I'll only be able to add pictures of half the library unless I kill this topic, start all over and give at least one page worth of posts just to accommodate growth of the game library :\
I'm probably gonna end up killing this topic and doing it over... the right way.

Here to help with Marketing!

I currently work in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Graphic Design. Please contact me with any way I can help! Wont charge unless we end up like the next angry birds :highfive:

yankzfan007 said:
I currently work in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Graphic Design. Please contact me with any way I can help! Wont charge unless we end up like the next angry birds :highfive:
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We have a few apps that we developed for local daily deals in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada.
I understand that for our website equivalent, a big part of SEO is making sure our targeted keywords are on-page and the content matches the keywords. However for apps, since there's no on-page SEO, how do we get our app to be shown in results for targeted keywords?
The main difference I see is that Google has a web crawler to go through my website and evaluate the content, index it correctly etc. For our apps, I don't imagine Google has an app crawler that will go through the apps and do the same?
Also are there any strategies that are relatively easy and cost-free to do that pertain specifically to SEO for apps?

Robogar said:
The main difference I see is that Google has a web crawler to go through my website and evaluate the content, index it correctly etc. For our apps, I don't imagine Google has an app crawler that will go through the apps and do the same?
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Judging by some of my searches on the Play Store, I think it has to do with your app name and the stuff in the description. My developer name is Acela Apps and when I search for it I get train apps because their description say they have the schedule for the Acela Amtrak train. This is why you should include as much about your app as you can in the description.

Acela1230 said:
Judging by some of my searches on the Play Store, I think it has to do with your app name and the stuff in the description. My developer name is Acela Apps and when I search for it I get train apps because their description say they have the schedule for the Acela Amtrak train. This is why you should include as much about your app as you can in the description.
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Yeah that's what I noticed as well. Pretty much the only place that matters to put relevant targeted keywords is in the app title, or google play description itself. Since there's no Google crawler to judge the content of the app, I think this is where the Google Play user reviews matter a lot.
Not too long ago Google allowed you to make anonymous reviews and what not, and scammers would just boost their own app ratings by making fake accounts, or even rating apps using emulators. Recently seeing that the app rating and reviews affect user's download rates so much, Google's made it so the reviews & ratings are user accountable. I think you have to use your Google(+) account now to make a review, and it posts your profile pic along with it.

yankzfan007 said:
I currently work in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Graphic Design. Please contact me with any way I can help! Wont charge unless we end up like the next angry birds :highfive:
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I am looking for help with my apps:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Android+Krak%C3%B3w

I'm looking for help too, but I can't paste links yet

Can you also give some hints how to promote an Android app?

can you help me?
yankzfan007 said:
I currently work in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Graphic Design. Please contact me with any way I can help! Wont charge unless we end up like the next angry birds :highfive:
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i made magic trick application. but my english description must be so bad. :crying:
you can find it. by search ezCardTrick in google. (i can't link address, i am newbie)
my friends say it is interestiong.
please help me~

Can you help me promote my app? Check it in my signature

yankzfan007 said:
I currently work in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and Graphic Design. Please contact me with any way I can help! Wont charge unless we end up like the next angry birds :highfive:
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Hi there!
I've two apps that would like to get reviewed and optimized for Search Engines. Could you have a look at them when you've time?
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ReFill It!
Thanks in advance!

Take a look
I have created an android app
PLz rate n review
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.chunky.bollywood.movies
Thanks

C0pa said:
Can you also give some hints how to promote an Android app?
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promoting an app is not that easy since there are lots of new app created everyday:crying: if you want your app ranking in the top position, maybe you have to cooperate with digital advertising company....It is more effective..but it is nor free:crying:

You might be interested in being added to this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=41965071

Wow! That's a generous offer, SEO is a very time consuming job. I would like to ask for your help but i won't as it looks like you have a lot of takers!
Cheers

Your great app is not selling. Sounds familiar?

Hi guys,
Making an app successful requires two distinct skill sets including:
1. product development: UI/UX, Graphics, clean code and all that stuff
2. marketing: Tricky business. How do you monteize? Work with Carriers? Pre-load your app? Promote it through blogs? Get good reviews? Create a hype in social media? Paid vs. Free? What kind of in-app purchases? Which ad network and what marketing partners to use etc. etc.?
I have seen many apps on app store that have the ability to be sell like hot cakes but they get dumped under the piles of bad apps which are being marketed properly.
If you guys think that you have an app that have the nice concept, good design and ability to be successful, but it is lacking marketing muscle, please send me a message. I will analyze your app and provide you free advise on what is it lacking. If I find that I can help you making it successful, I will let you know and we can discuss these details more once the key issues are identified.
Regards,
Omer

Sounds like a good offer. My app is in my signature. I posted some info on my efforts in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2228199&page=3
What do you think?

Great initiative, here is my app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.signedcode.diskovery
Thank you!

Please check your PMs.

have a look
omer205 said:
Please check your PMs.
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Please have a look at my signature this all my apps..

Wow your offer is amazing !
Well, please have a look:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdmFactory.crazyKitchen
thanks

This is a big pain point for app developers everywhere, both during UI and feature design as well as marketing the app. A solution would be to A/B your app features, both for development and for marketing your features. Mobile A/B solutions tend to be cumbersome and code-intensive. But, WYSIWYG tools are also making their appearance (Appiterate, Useartisan)

omer205 said:
Hi guys,
Making an app successful requires two distinct skill sets including:
1. product development: UI/UX, Graphics, clean code and all that stuff
2. marketing: Tricky business. How do you monteize? Work with Carriers? Pre-load your app? Promote it through blogs? Get good reviews? Create a hype in social media? Paid vs. Free? What kind of in-app purchases? Which ad network and what marketing partners to use etc. etc.?
I have seen many apps on app store that have the ability to be sell like hot cakes but they get dumped under the piles of bad apps which are being marketed properly.
If you guys think that you have an app that have the nice concept, good design and ability to be successful, but it is lacking marketing muscle, please send me a message. I will analyze your app and provide you free advise on what is it lacking. If I find that I can help you making it successful, I will let you know and we can discuss these details more once the key issues are identified.
Regards,
Omer
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here is mine at my signature.

look at my signature, advices are welcome

I just sent you a message:
Here is my game =)
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.getfun.treevolve

Cat Snaps
Hi Please tell me what you think to my app Cat Snaps.
Thanks!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.noahdev.catsnaps

This does sound like a pretty good opportunity, has anyone been able to work with him? If so, any feedback?
I sent you a PM by the way.
Thanks!

unfortunately it does sound familiar :crying:
i have this amaizing app on which my team worked for months and now the marketing is not that good. i mean we all expected it wont be second agry birds but damn app store is like a wild wild west!!!!! luckily ive fouund this forum maybe something here will give me an answer
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Omer[/QUOTE]

Great to see this, I hope you will take some time to check my app
Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
Link: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Souls.Gabber_app
Thanks,
Levi

Reasons Why Your App is not showing Conversion
A/B testing is a powerful tool which can be used to exponentially increase your conversions and and thus revenue. However there are certain mistakes one can often make while doing an A/B test. Read more here http://appiterate.com/top-6-mobile-app-ab-testing-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/

omer205 said:
Hi guys,
I will analyze your app and provide you free advise on what is it lacking. If I find that I can help you making it successful, I will let you know and we can discuss these details more once the key issues are identified.
Regards,
Omer
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Hi,
Thanks for the efforts and your hard work
can you help on my apps
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...uquoteoftheday
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Wow! I agree with the former post, this is a great initiative! My app is called bitmado, it automatically shuffles wallpapers based on your interests. I'll message you the link. Thanks!

Thats true but
richardsd1985 said:
I think you forgot App store optimization. It is best to increase app download as people mostly search app on app stores.
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You are right, but
i observe that in search list google shows the result in below way.
1. first shows the app for which they have got advertisement money,
2. then the app those revenues are high as 30% goes to google.
3. then the most downloaded- reviewd, rate apps
4. then there algorithem goes for rest all...
Again this is my observation and i have not considered google algoritham at all on this.

Hi Omar,
I hope I`m not too late and this post is still active I try to promote my app, it is Astrology & Horoscopes, Feng Shui... I know it doesn`t sound awesome, but it actually is based on Chinesse astrology professional software and lot of people believe in this stuff, so i think my app may be successful. Could you please help me with some advice what should I do to increase it`s downloads? Thank you
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmc.astrology&hl=en

Hi Omer
Here are my 2 latest games
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=50785184&postcount=51
I would appreciate your review and thoughts on what can be improved.

[Q] Best Step by Step tutorial for app development

Hey guys! I'm new to app development world, I have a good amount of knowledge of c/c++ and learning java right now (I'm an engineering student), and totally interested in making my own app for android, I have made some basic apps, but it would be a real help if I get a good tutorial for bigger apps and also a tutorial for 2-D gaming on this platform for now....thanks in advanced!

I just recommend you to visit http://d.android.com/training it'll introduce you in all the basics and advanced techniques.

Not this buddy....I want a bit simpler tutorial....that one is too vast, I want a tutorial that specifically teaches for one particular type of app, example: making a 2-D game, or building a browser, or a messaging app, etc.
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rulerofthehell said:
Not this buddy....I want a bit simpler tutorial....that one is too vast, I want a tutorial that specifically teaches for one particular type of app, example: making a 2-D game, or building a browser, or a messaging app, etc.
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I think those topics are a collection of hundreds of patterns, knowledge, implementation and understanding, so better to start simple rather than ....well.... as the saying goes...learn to walk first before you try and pilot a space shuttle
Just a suggestion
Note : there maybe dvd sets that show what you ask, but I would suspect it would be months if not years of learning for a nice grounding in what you will need.

I know basic bro....
deanwray said:
I think those topics are a collection of hundreds of patterns, knowledge, implementation and understanding, so better to start simple rather than ....well.... as the saying goes...learn to walk first before you try and pilot a space shuttle
Just a suggestion
Note : there maybe dvd sets that show what you ask, but I would suspect it would be months if not years of learning for a nice grounding in what you will need.
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I just said I made a few basic apps, I don't wanna sound rude but I have learned to "walk" , just needs a few directions before I start to fly.

rulerofthehell said:
I just said I made a few basic apps, I don't wanna sound rude but I have learned to "walk" , just needs a few directions before I start to fly.
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Sorry was speed reading to just try and offer help... as I said there are lots of resources, but for something like a game, you have mass resources based on the tech/engine you choose (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17163446/what-is-the-best-2d-game-engine-for-android)... if you choose one of the popular ones there are tonnes of resource. As for building an app, it's just a little ambiguous. A screen that displays a black view fullscreen is an app. I think it's best to evaluate the market see whats missing or can be improved upon and start that way.
BTW I was confused on you saying you wanted simpler than d.android.com/training (which is like the starting point from zero) But I think I get what your asking now

That helps a lot thanks!
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if you choose one of the popular ones there are tonnes of resource. As for building an app, it's just a little ambiguous. A screen that displays a black view fullscreen is an app. I think it's best to evaluate the market see whats missing or can be improved upon and start that way.
BTW I was confused on you saying you wanted simpler than d.android.com/training (which is like the starting point from zero) But I think I get what your asking now
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Thanks man! That helps a lot and if I may ask for more then are there any tutorials for simple multiplayer games....I know I have to set up a server to which a user can connect to,but I don't exactly know how to do that...so a tutorial on it would help
Also tutorials on multiplayer games via Bluetooth connection would be nice

rulerofthehell said:
Thanks man! That helps a lot and if I may ask for more then are there any tutorials for simple multiplayer games....I know I have to set up a server to which a user can connect to,but I don't exactly know how to do that...so a tutorial on it would help
Also tutorials on multiplayer games via Bluetooth connection would be nice
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that I cant help with and would be on par with you in having to google, if I were to speculate then I would assume that lots of the core elements like profile linking, indents, scores/stats and states are/can be handled by the new google play services game stuff... but just have a read on google/android site, cause I would say yes to having a server for MMO games but no if it's either 1 to 1 or not realtime.
btw not many do bluetooth these days, wifi network or wifi direct for local games

I highly recommend "android bootcamp series" (sorry I can't add link, so please write it in google).
This screencasts explain all building blocks in Android in easy way

Check vogella.com, you'll find a bunch of examples. Really helpful.