Developer Stories

Tap4Fun is a Chinese games developer based in Chengdu which generates 55 percent of its total gaming revenue globally on Google Play. Watch Tap4Fun’s CEO/Founder Stan Xu and Creative Director Charlie Moseley, explain how they increased their game’s…

Fablic is a Japanese developer co-founded by Shota Horii and June Taketani, which launched Fril, a women's focused online marketplace, for individuals to buy and sell clothes easily through the app. Hear top tips from Fablic about how implementing…

Watch the creators of Gifted Mom https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polabs.demo&hl=en, Alain Nteff and Conrad Tankou, explain how they built their business and launched Gifted Mom with Google Play and Android. They also talk about…

Independent developer Eric Froemling, created the game Bombsquad and using Player Analytics he was able to improve player retention and monetization of the game. Learn how Eric uses Player Analytics and the Developer Console to improve gamers’…

Founded in 2010, Turkish mobile games developer Peak Games started developing games targeted to the local market and is now scaling globally. Hear how Peak Games improved user engagement and increased installs with Google Play Store Listing…

Games developer Kongregate, founded in 2006, is a leading mobile games publisher specializing in free to play games. Learn how Kongregate successfully used Store Listing Experiments to test and optimise mobile game listings on Google Play. ▶ Learn…

RogerVoice is an app which enables people who are hearing impaired to make phone calls through voice recognition and text captions. RogerVoice used material design and beta testing to create an interface which is accessible and intuitive to navigate…

Dots is a US-founded game developer which released the popular game, Dots, and its addictive sequel, TwoDots. Dots used the Store Listing Experiments feature in the Google Play Developer Console to test what icon, graphics, and text worked the best…

Find out how Buffstudio, developer of the successful game 'Buff Knight', grew it's global reach and maintain a competitive edge using Google Play Services and Google Play Developer Console. We’re also pleased to share that Android Developer Stories…

Discover how Zabob Studio has turned it's games into a global success with Google Play. Hear CEO, Daehyun Kwon, share how Google Play Services and the Developer Console helped them generate revenue globally - now with about 60 percent of the…

Trello recently redesigned their collaborative planning app using the material design guidelines, and their efforts paid off. See how the New York company earned double digit growth in engagement using material design. Learn about using the tools…

Shifty Jelly is an Adelaide based mobile development company that has seen great success building Pocket Casts, a premium podcast manager app. The team has focused heavily on building a best-in-class user experience and on Android they offer a…

The speed at which Wooga is able to iterate its live and under development games with the Android and Google Play tools has been key to delivering hits such as Diamond Dash, Jelly Splash, and Agent Alice. The fast iteration speeds are also the…

The Hunt has been making great use of material design to enhance engagement with its community, in their style advice and product discovery app. Using beta testing in the Google Play Developer Console, they’re pushing daily updates and bringing…

To really understand their users, Jelly Button Games analyses over 3 billion events each month using Google Analytics and Google BigQuery. With this data they pinpoint exactly where, when, and why people play their game, Pirate Kings, to find the…

Outfit7, creators of My Talking Tom and My Talking Angela, offer a complete entertainment experience to users spanning mobile apps, user generated and original YouTube content, and a range of toys, clothing, and accessories; they even have a silver…

Haystack TV built a scalable business with six employees and Android TV. Two weeks was all it took for them to bring their mobile app to the big screen. That includes building an immersive, cinematic UI (a task greatly simplified by the Android…

Meet Vincenzo Colucci, developer and founder of GinLemon, which started as a summer holiday joke and has now become a successful global app business on Google Play based in Manfredonia, southern Italy. To learn about creating apps for Google Play…

Find out how the Guardian is taking advantage of unique Google Play and Android features to improve user engagement and build relationships with their app users. By doing so, they increased their app rating from 4.0 to 4.4. To learn more about how…

See how real estate company Trulia successfully leveraged notifications on Android to increase app engagement by 30 percent, which resulted in 2x the amount of engagement on Android relative to other platforms. Learn more about technologies…

Over has taken a simple idea, adding text to photos, and turned it into a creative tool enabling anyone to easily and intuitively add a unique twist to any image. Despite everyone on the team being new to Android, they had their first prototype…

Learn how Bologna-based musiXmatch takes advantage of Android’s unique capabilities and different form factors to drive app engagement and double the amount of users as well as double the length of their sessions. To learn more about engaging your…

Discover how the redesigned and simplified EyeEm Android app not only delivers a faster, more photo centric experience, but has also boosted user engagement and retention. For example, missions — competitions for photographers around a theme —…

London-based Space Ape Games (http://www.spaceapegames.com/) brought together a range of resources and tactics to take Samurai Siege (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spaceapegames.samuraisiege) into Japan with Google Play and grow…

The New York Times leveraged a solid mobile strategy to transition into a global media organization. See how they used Google Play Billing to maximize subscriber growth.

Quizlet is an extremely popular online learning tool for students. See how they optimized for the classroom with Android and the power of Google Play for Education.

ClassDojo is a classroom tool that helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. See how they optimized for the classroom with Android and the power of Google Play for Education.

Box is a cloud-based platform and app for users to share business information. See how they got over 5 million downloads by leveraging the flexibility in the Android platform.

Learn how Thrillist, the creator of the JackThreads mens fashion app, grew their Android sales almost 2000% by using Android native design.

Android-first developer Kiwi has had 5 titles in the 25 grossing games in Google Play, including Shipwrecked: Lost Island, Monsterama Park, and Hidden Object: Mystery Estate. Hear how Google Play helped them double revenue every six months with…

The creators of Kuma The Bear, Japan-based Colopl, talk about how Google Play and Android allowed them to grow their business to become one of the most profitable games publishers in APAC to date.

Bangalore-based developers redBus.in are bringing the sophistication and convenience of air-travel booking to bus transit. Hear how Android is helping them to deliver a superior travel experience to millions of daily bus riders in India.