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Uploading an App to Google Play [1] - Once you've finished developing it.

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This is about uploading your application to the playstore, with tips as to how to make the entire process easier. Google Play requires you to make icons/banners of very specific sizes, take screenshots, and a whole lot of drama. It isn't something you can avoid, so you might as well just follow these guidelines to make the entire process easy and fast. Alright. I'm going to start the cheesy way, quoting a line so correct, Mahatma Gandhi would shy away. Okay that was crap. I'm sorry :P But this line isn't. In fact, if you have never developed any kind of application before, you will experience ecstasy, so exultant and euphoric that you will want to enthusiastically practice more and build something—anything, like a hungry chef discovering a furnished kitchen with every tool, every utensil, and a stocked refrigerator. - From the guy who started javascriptissexy.com If you've ever built something using your own creativity, your own hands, whether it's a ta

Uploading an App to Google Play [2] - Once you've finally uploaded it.

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This is about what happens once you've created your app's store listing, created keystore keys, designed icons of the very specific sizes Android requires, taken screenshots, and you're really happy about having uploaded your app. Oh the joy of making an application :D You feel proud, because you've actually built something. Something with your very own hands. ( Fingers to be precise :P - We're not craftsmen anymore, that actually build a tangible structure carving wood or welding metal - everything most humans create now is for a world we've created - the virtual world. Ah but I'll leave this for another blog. )  You've spent days, if not weeks( months, maybe? ) on developing your application from scratch, planning, implementing, and finally making it Google-Play-Ready. Now believe me, that isn't easy. Creating a bare-bone app with zero UI and crap code for extremely fast prototyping is easy, and I am usually done with the skeleton in 2 days. B