The One Platform Foundation is a global, open-source initiative to help the Android ecosystem evolve by enabling developers to easily code and submit their apps across multiple alternative appstores.

2. OPF: Publishing
to multiple app
stores simplified
Timur Dyussebayev
Android developer relations

3. Appstores on Android
• Google Play is not the only store
• Why publish anywhere else?
• What challenges do we have

4. Over 20 Android app
stores
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6. Why publish anywhere else?
• Don’t miss the devices without Google Play
• Better app discoverability/exposure
• Larger geo spread
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7. Millions of devices without
Google Play worldwide
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8. Amazon has 11.5% of
WW tablet sales*
* - IDC
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9. SlideME is exclusive on
20M+ devices*
* - SlideME data
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10. Korea: T-Store 18.5M
users, 1.1B downloads*
* - SK Planet press release
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11. Russia: Credit card?
No, thank you!
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12. Russia: Yandex.Store -
direct carrier billing with
all major carriers
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13. App distribution in China
The West China*
* - TechCrunch
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14. China Mobile MM: 149M
users, 1.92B downloads
* - TechCrunch
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15. Let’s do it?
It’s essential to look at alternative appstores, but
1. Need to solve appstore publishing (time
consuming)
2. Need to solve in-app billing (time consuming)
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16. OPF is about solving
them
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17. 1. AppDF
A format to ease developer’s life

18. How things stand
• Publishing to each store is time consuming:
• APK
• Screenshots
• Description
• Changelog
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20. It would take up to 1 day
to update an app in all
appstores
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21. App Description File Format (AppDF)
AppDF is an open file format that packages:
• APK
• Description
• App icon
• Screenshots
• Promo images
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22. description.xml demo
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23. All of this can be done
using AppDF Editor
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25. 2. Open In-app Billing
A single in-app billing API

26. Problems: Billing APIs
• In-app billing is not a part of Android
• Different stores – different APIs
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29. What is available today?
• AppDF: Specification v1.0
• AppDF: Editor
• AppDF: libs for parsing AppDF
• Open IAB: demo app with all in-app billings
implemented
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30. Join us
• Try AppDF. 2 stores support it
• Give us feedback
• Check out Open IAB on Github
• If you like it… contribute
• And enjoy a less painful alternative store
experience
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31. onepf.org
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32. Timur Dyussebayev
@onepf_org
onepf.org
Questions?