How Android Developers Enjoy Making Money with Google Adsense

Android is most commonly used operating system for smart phones. Android alone captures 78.4% of Global Market share and hence it stands on #1 position by beating apples IOS. On average basis around 1,500,000 new android smart phones are daily activated. If we talk about Android users then only in US there are more then 76 Million Android users and uncountable in the world. Such high usage of Android give birth to opportunities for Android developers to make money by developing android apps. This much usage empowers Android to run and support wide range of apps. The main feature of Android OS is that it is flexible and open source which makes Android to run all types of apps. And by this many people are making money by developing android apps. We all know about Google Adsense, great program by Google for publishers to make money with their blogs and websites and in the same way you can use google adsense to place ads on your own developed android app. This is one of the awesome way to make money with Google Adsense.

We all know mobile advertising is the next generation marketing method that has already been started, Android and Apple both are enjoying this as a great income source for both the organisations. Apart from that mobile Advertising also brings in opportunities for Android developers to make good income by their apps. There is just a simple process in which you develops an android app place advertisements and put it on the play store from where android users can download it on their android devices this was the process we will read it in details below but before that you must know about Android Development.

Android Development

We all know that android is a great open source operating system that is known for it's flexibility. Android is every time under development for new updates which makes it most innovative operating system for smart phones. The Android forum itself provides the complete Android development kit by the help of which you can easily develop android apps. Today there is very wide scope in android development and many programmers have already stepped into Android development and most of them are making very good income and many are earning living from android development.

For the development of android, the organization provides Android Studio and SDK's for free on their official website that is developer.android.com you can download android studio and can start developing apps today.

Making money with Android apps

Making money with android app is a quite simple way to make money. All what you need is little advancement and knowledge about android development. You must have seen that most of the android apps contains ads that is what generates money for the developers. The most common way to place ads on your android app is Google Adsense, we all know that Google Adsense is best available way for making money via advertising and Google also provides Adsense for apps that can be used to place ads on any android app.

Adding Adsense Ads to your Android Apps

The next important part is to put Adsense ads to your android app. In this part you will learn to insert adsense ads into your android app. Just follow the steps given below to successfully insert ads into your android app.

Step 1:

Create a Google account, if you don’t have one, and log in to the Google Adsense site (https://www.google.com/adsense)

Step 2:

Select “Adsense Setup” from the menu

Step 3:

Select “AdSense for Mobile Content New high-end devices!” and follow the wizard steps to customize you ads.

Step 4:

Get “Your AdSense code” and save it to an empty html page

<html>

<head>

<title>World Cup Goal Scream Ads</title>

</head>

<body marginwidth=”0″ marginheight=”0 leftmargin=”0″

topmargin=”0″ style=”background-color: black”>

…..insert your Adsense Code here………

</body>

</html>

And save the page, for example call it myads.html

Step 5:

Upload this page to your website, oh you need a place on the internet where you can upload stuff

Step 6:

Test the page on your mobile phone by opening the page that you just upload.

Note!: it won’t display any content if you open the page from your computer’s web browser. You have to test it on your mobile web browser.

Step 7:

Now that you have this page, you probably ask yourself “How the hack do I add it to my app ?”

Well don’t worry you are on track to do this.

Take a deep breath of fresh air and proceed with the next step.

Step 8:

Open your Android project and edit the View where you want to add your ads.

For example you can add ads to your main.xml where you’ll place a WebView component.

<LinearLayout android:id=”@+id/adsHolder”

android:layout_width=”fill_parent” android:layout_height=”wrap_content”

android:orientation=”vertical” android:layout_alignParentBottom=”true”

android:layout_centerInParent=”true” android:paddingTop=”5px”>

<WebView android:id=”@+id/adsDisplay” android:layout_width=”fill_parent”

android:layout_height=”fill_parent” />

</LinearLayout>

Step 9:

All you have to do now is to wire up the WebView component that you just add to your web page created in Step 4

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

/** Called when the activity is first created. */

@Override

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.main);

……………

WebView adsDisplay = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.adsDisplay);

adsDisplay.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

adsDisplay.loadUrl(“YOUR URL HERE;);

……………

}

Step 10:

Add user INTERNET permission to your app by editing the AndroidManifest.xml file

……………

<uses-permission android:name=”android.permission.INTERNET” />

……………

</manifest>

Step 11:

You’re done, test it by building your app and run it with your emulator or on your mobile phone and you should see your ads at the bottom of your screen.