Question

I have never released an Android app before in the wild ( Android market places ). I’m wondering what are you supposed to include in the manifest to identify your application. Application name, copyright, company, home page … etc. Are there any given guidelines or expectations from the different stores that people should adhere to ?

Answer 1

I published my first app last week.

And there are quite a few things I didn’t think about beforehand.

Particularly;

• creating icons for each resolution (and a high res one for the website)
• creating a key to sign the finished apk
• enabling proguard to obfuscate the generated apk
• writing decent copy to go on the market
• creating screenshots of the app in action
• considering what version number to give the first release

I followed the guidelines from the excellent “Programming Android” book
(its not your typical “heres an example” book… more of a “lets consider the whole android architecture”)

But Google has documentation on its site
http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/preparing.html

This is a screenshot of part of the form you have to fill in.