First encounter with the Amazon App store

I am working on an application called HOGER. (Hands off google reader). It’s a niche app I admint, for Google reader users, like myself,  that want to quickly browse through headlines while doing something else; like exercising, eating or working.  

To increase the reach of my app, I have submitted it to Handster and the Amazon App Store in addition to the Android Market.  The big difference between Amazon and Google is that they follow in apple’s footsteps and review all applications before they are accepted into the store.

 
First rejection

The first time I submitted my app, I checked back every hour to see if it was published. The review process can take days, sometimes weeks I learned. After four days Amazon reported back that there was a slight problem with my submission. A small Icon was visually inconsistent with a larger icon I submitted. 

They obviously care about the look of their storefront. Excellent! I have seen a couple of bad looking icons or two in the Android Market. I think this Quality assurance process benefits both store and seller. It was also the fault of my own not to read the guidelines https://developer.amazon.com/help/faq.html#Program Overview properly before submitting.

Second Rejection

This morning I have had my app rejected again. It seems that it crash with an “out of memory” error on devices with hardware keyboards, but only if the user changes orientation from portrait to landscape, during the loading of Google news items.

The feedback I got shows very clearly that a real person- or team has installed my app and are testing it, including corner cases. It also seem that they test on different devices.

I test my applications of three devices; A galaxy Tab 10.1, HTC Sensation and a lower end device with a slow CPU and small screen; Huawei IDEOS. This takes out a lot of bugs, but with 400+ Android devices available, test help is greatly welcome!

Hoger. My "Hands off Google Reader Reader"

Developer complaints

The Amazon App store is young, and some developers complain. The Swedish team, bithack, behind the popular game “Apparatus” decided to pull their game from the web store earlier this month 

To Amazon’s defence, the most significant problem they point out is also present in the Android market. Getting in touch with complaining customers is very difficult.

All in all I look forward to working with Amazon. I find it assuring that they actually invest time and money on all submitted applications. Quality problems, malware and to some degrees Spam is starting to become an issue in the Android Market. It will be interesting to see how they will succeed with a more “appelish” approach to their market. 

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