Earlier this week at the I/O 2013 conference, Google discussed with developers how to make money on the Android. According to TechCrunch, Google announced some of the stats around Google Play revenues. Google revealed that in-app purchase revenues through Google Play is up 700% since the same time last year. This is evident in the highest grossing rankings section in Google Play.
At the Google I/O Developer conference, Google announced new software called Google Android Studio. Google Android Studio is a new Android development environment that is based on IntelliJ IDEA. Google Android Studio is similar to Eclipse with the ADT Plugin and it provides integrated Android developer tools for development and debugging. It can be considered a replacement for Eclipse. Android Studio is available as an early access preview on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.
At the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, Google has launched a new streaming music service called Google Play Music “All Access.”
At Google I/O, Google confirmed that leaderboards, achievements, and matchmaking features are coming to Google Play. The new features are similar to Apple’s Game Center and it allows developers to add the aforementioned services into Google Playalong with the ability to save game data to the cloud.
On Saturday, Android Police published details about a leaked document they received regarding Google Play Games. Google Play Games would make Android games more social. It will have functions that are similar to Apple’s Game Center.
Facebook Home, a user interface layer for Android-compatible smartphones created by Facebook, has hit one million downloads in only four weeks, despite all of the negative reviews. Late last month Facebook Home hit around 500,000 downloads. Facebook Home is intended to be a replacement for the existing home screen on an Android device. Facebook Home allows users to easily view and post content on Facebook. Facebook Home went live on April 12th and the company launched a couple of creative ads promoting the service.
Last month we wrote about how Facebook found a way to issue updates to their Android app without having to go through the Google Play application store. Google has now updated their terms and conditions to ensure that no other developers try to circumvent the Google Play store.
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The Facebook Home app has surpassed 500,000 downloads on the Google Play store after about a week of availability for certain Android devices. Unfortunately, the early adopters testing out Facebook Home have provided mostly negative feedback. The app has an average rating of 2.2.
