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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Remove admob library, Android.

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JohnnyMeek
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Posted: 13th May 2014 09:19
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So, for my app that's being featured by Amazon for free app of the day, they are recommending that I remove the admob library from the binary completely.

The good news, is that the other issues they found have been fixed.

They claim that apps that leave this library in the binary, unused, receive a lot of 1 star reviews. How true that is I don't know.

How simple is this?
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Naphier
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Posted: 13th May 2014 13:01
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Pretty simple. Take out the correct lines in the AndroidManifest.xml, remove the library from the libs folder. You might get some complaints when you clean/build, but they should be easy to just comment out. An alternative would be Chartboost (see naplandgames.com/agk). You can also reference the AGKHelper.java there to sort of see what needs ot be commented out. It might be easier to do it with a clean/build and manually resolve the errors though.
I do question their claim though. How do users know that it is included, but not used? Who would notice that?

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JohnnyMeek
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Posted: 13th May 2014 14:15
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A quick Google of Amazon reviews for free app of the day and I found a few people complaining that the binary contained unused admob libraries.

I'm not sure I understand why, I guess it could be the distrust of 'Is it really free?'.
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bjadams
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Posted: 13th May 2014 21:36
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True, how do non technical users know what libs an app is using?

maybe they are running some system cleanup app that checks other apps for malicious content?
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Naphier
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Posted: 14th May 2014 01:33
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I wonder if they are really just complaining because it is a free app of the day and it actually includes ads. I've found a lot of users complain about ads. It's obnoxious really, they all seem to want everything for free. They don't seem to realize that the minor inconvenience of an ad showing may be the only way a very small developer is able to make any money.

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bjadams
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Posted: 14th May 2014 18:21
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i had the same problem on Blackberry.
I put out a game for FREE with NO ADS, and users started to post complaints! i had to remove the game from the store.
I mean if you don't like the game, just delete it and move on, you didn't spend any $ on it

same game on apple app store 25000+ downloads and not 1 complaint!
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