[scottchin]

Does anyone have insight into any of the following questions?

1. Which Chinese Android App marketplaces are the most popular? In other words, if I wanted to target Chinese Android users, which app stores should I focus on submitting my app to?

2. Are there any barriers to submitting to such app stores for north american developers? Specifically related to getting paid.

3. Which Android mobile ad networks are best (cpm/cpc) for China?

Would love to hear any personal experiences working with China's Android Market!

[kevin_p]

#1. For us, the top 3 are GoAPK (anzhi.com), GFan (apk.gfan.com) and Tencent App Center (http://android.myapp.com). Between them, they're >90% of Chinese 3rd-party app store downloads.

#2. The biggest hurdle is that everything is in Chinese. I'm not sure how hard it would be to get paid if you're not in China, but as athgeo says, Chinese users really don't like to buy paid apps - even in the iOS app store our free-to-paid ratio for China is literally 10 times worse than the US, and Android is even worse because the users are less likely to have money. So it's probably best to concentrate on ad-supported apps.

#3. If anyone has good advice on this, I'd like to hear it.

[athgeo]

A cursory search turned up this thread CSDN => http://bbs.csdn.net/topics/370249613 (CSDN being a popular IT forum in China - another one that you may want to research is iteye.com).

According to the author, paid apps are hard to make money off. It appears advertising is the easiest way to monetize apps. Post '#2' has a list of ad networks. Post '#28' enumerates popular Android markets.

As for your second question, it is probably no problem. You just need to sign up with one of the many Chinese equivalents of Paypal. I'm sure there are then ways you can get the funds transferred to your account.

[peloton]

Related to this-- Any insight on market share by Android variant?