In order to publish your app on Android Market, you will have to be registered as an "Android Market developer". This registration includes paying a one-time fee of $25.
If you are not willing or able to pay this fee, you cannot publish your app on Android Market. (There are other Marketplaces/Appstores, but I will not cover them in this article.)
I have already performed my registration last year, so I will not be able to provide screenshots and full details regarding this, but I think it should be quite clear anyway ;-)
It is quite possible that you already have this already. Visit https://accounts.google.com/ and either sign up for a new account, or log in with an existing account.
Visit http://market.android.com/publish and fill in the registration form
This step is really important and it is very well described on http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/preparing.html, so for the first time in this article series, I will not write my own version of this step. Only these few bullets that are easy to forget:
You need to prepare
Goto the Developer Console on https://market.android.com/publish/Home and click on the Upload Application button:
Select the (signed) APK-file you just built and click Upload:
and then Save.
You will now have to spend somewhere between 15 and 60 minutes to fill as many details as possible and add the images you prepared.
When all detailes are filled in, click "Save" at the top of the page, and then click on the "APK files" tab:
Activate your newly uploaded APK and then click "Publish".
Done! Our app is published!
You can now send the link to your friends and ask them to try it out. The link should be in the form:
http://market.android.com/details?id=<package_name>
For example: http://market.android.com/details?id=com.ajomannen.justroids for JustRoids that I just published.
So, the result of this whole tutorial, all those months of work, all late nights...is the following button:
Theme by Danetsoft and Danang Probo Sayekti inspired by Maksimer