Deciding What to Build

Sure, you could make a new Lunar Lander game and give it a different name. Then you could put it on the Android Market, and you have yourself an Android application!

Of course, this isn’t very original, isn’t it? You’re not going to find someone who is willing to spend $0.99 to go to play a game that hasn’t changed much since the 1980s. In fact, a search for “Lunar Lander” on the Android Market reveals two lander games, both of them available for free. If you want to succeed on the Android Market, you are going to have to come up with something a little bit more complex than this.

Of course, there are many Android applications that are based on simplicity that have made a lot of money. For example, I find that one of the ...

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