Download Stats II

It's a new month and we've got some new numbers to share. We've got New Markets, Old Markets, and.. well I guess that's it in this post.

Downloads As of November 4th:

Android Market  :  285

Code.Google       :  53

SlideMe              :  136

Amazon Market  :  0

Indievania          :  0                                       Total  =  474 downloads

%Percentages of Total%

• Android Market - 60% we've been here longest but growth seems to be constant
• SlideMe - 28% it is very likely this market will surpass Android Market in the coming weeks
• Code.Google - 12% it might not be much, but it's a good starting point for beginning developers
• All others - 0%

**Some side notes*

• Android Market has been getting some updates recently in the developer console so hopefully the numbers of active installs are reflecting a little better this time around. We now have 84 active installs to stack alongside our 285 downloads. I think most of the people who uninstalled did so because the game is still in a demo state. Growth was 75 downloads since Oct. 19th thats a 26% increase in the Android market!
• Code.Google has still been pretty much abandoned as far as downloads are going since the release of the market download (probably because we put a huge button that said "Available in Android Market" on that page) We did however see a small amount of growth here since Oct. 19th accounting for 10 new downloads! thats a 20% growth!
• SlideMe still looks like the best alternative for developers trying to reach a wider audience, accounting for 136 downloads! Growth was 73 downloads since Oct. 19th for this market that's a 53% increase!!
• Indievania, Amazon Market, and ASC (AppStoreConnect) have all shown no signs of increase since their release. I was actually very surprised with Amazon Market, it took 2 weeks for them to review my app and allow it on the market, but it still has yet to get a single download since going live last week. So far I would have to say stick with Android Market and SlideMe for the best results.

Download Stats I

Now that we've been on SlideMe, Android Market, Code.Google, and Indievania for a while now we've finally got some growth numbers to show off!

Downloads As of October 19th:

Android Market  :  211

Code.Google       :  43

SlideMe              :  63

Indievania          :  0                                             Total  =  320 downloads

**Some side notes*

• We have currently been on Android Market the longest (since October 1st) so we expected to see the largest number of downloads here. Something to consider about Androids' statistics; I'm not sure how often they are updated because the number of active installs on the first day was at 46 when I had 0 user installs showing
• Code.Google has pretty much been abandoned as far as downloads are going since the release of the market download (probably because we put a huge button that said "Available in Android Market" on that page) It's still interesting to track the page visits though as we get quite a bit of traffic
• SlideMe has seen significant growth since we put it up just a few days ago (October 13th) Overall this market alone accounted for 20% of the total downloads from the past 6 days alone. A viable alternative to any developer trying to reach a larger audience
• Indievania has been the least successful at 0 downloads since releasing. I think this site might be more focused on pc gaming development rather than Android at this point in time