Priced appli for some european developers !

Coupled with the access to priced application for users from France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, developers from Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Austria can now submit priced applications !

Here is an extract from the mail we received :

"I'm writing to let you know that priced applications are now available in
Android Market for users in France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands.
You can target one or more of these countries in the publisher website at
http://market.android.com/publish by selecting the individual checkboxes
or by choosing "All Current and Future Locations," which will make your
priced apps appear to users in all countries where priced apps are
available. Priced applications are now available to users in eight
countries: United States, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the
Netherlands, and Austria.

We have also added seller support for developers from Germany, France,
Spain, the Netherlands, and Austria. Developers from these countries can
now go to the publisher website to publish their priced applications.
Google Checkout serves as the payment and billing mechanism for Android
Market in all countries. Developers who do not already have a Google
Checkout merchant account can easily sign up for one via the publisher
website. Developers can find more information about priced applications
in Android Market at http://market.android.com/support/."

We can now buy priced applications from France !

We, Android developers, received a mail last week to inform us Google will add buyer support for priced apps in France, Italy, Spain, and Netherlands, in 'a couple weeks'...

But it looks like it took them less time, as we can see priced application now from France ( and I imagine it's the same in Italy, Spain and Netherlands ) !

It means the market is expanding !!

Now I have to wait the possibility for us, non-US non-UK developers, to offer priced applications !

Will Bouygues Telecom be the first one to launch the Samsung I7500 in France ?

Today, the first live photos of the Samsung I7500 were found on Mobile-Review ( here ).







And tada....

What do we see in this screen ?

The Bouygues Telecom logo !!
Bouygues Telecom is one of the three telecom operators in France.
Orange has already launched the HTC Dream earlier this month,
SFR should launch the HTC Magic in May.

And we were missing any announce from Bouygues Telecom for the android market.

Looks like we have something like an answer here !

French Descriptions avalaible in the market !

I made a french version of my game "Word Prospector".

It's another entry in the Android Market, and it's called "Chasseurs de mots".

And I think it's one of the first French independant game, and the first French Word Game !

As it is a French game, it made sense to put a french description. 

But some people couldn't understand this description and gave me a bad rating just because of this !

But since yesterday, the Android Market has added 6 new languages, and French is one of them.

So I could put a french description, in French, and a english description that says it is a French game ( and that there is a english version ! ) !

Thanks Google !

Ps : I would like to thanks, even if I really doubt they will ever read this, the users that gave me some good ratings just to counter the ones that gave me bad rating for a poor reason !

Word Prospector is out now !

Hi all,


I've been quiet for so long time, because I finished and published my first Android game : Word Prospector...

The game is out for 15 days now, has been downloaded about 1800 times, and has generated 10 000 ad requests ( from admob )...

As anybody who published a application, I learned a lot from the whole process, and there are plenty of enhancements that I want to add...