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I just want to share our experience with the problem of monetization in web apps built with Kendo UI Mobile. Maybe someone has found a good way to handle this and is willling to share this knowledge here. It's of course a common problem not specifically related to Kendo.
When we decided to do our new app with Kendo UI for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile, we did not expect monetization to be the biggest problem in the process. But in the end, it was (and still is). I think this is a major drawback for hybrid web apps. Unfortunately, we didn't notice until our app was almost done. Now we're sitting on a nice cross-platform app with now suitable and useful way of turning it into money.
We tried the following:
1. Using Cordova plugins (i.e. for Admob)
Result:
Very unreliable (inofficial plugins, not getting updated, don't really work cross-platform). For instance: the most recent one that includes the new Google Play SDK doesn't really work on iOS, especially on the iPad. It also interferes with forms in Kendo UI, we had a lot of user reports on this, especially on older smartphones.
2. Using HTML-/JS-based ads
Result:
99% of them is injecting JS and HTML by using document.write(), which does not work with Kendo UI. The other 1% (like AppNext) offers an JSON-/XML-API which allows very nice integration. Unfortunately due to the nature of this technique they only offer revenue through CPA, which is naturally very very bad. You won't earn much this way.
Right now we have AppNext running with CPA ads, but revenue is a joke compared to AdMob or other CPI/CPC solutions.
If anybody found a different solution, please share it here. We would actually pay for it. ;)
If there's no other solution to this right now, I'm afraid I can not recommend Kendo UI right now if you plan to monetize your app.
When we decided to do our new app with Kendo UI for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile, we did not expect monetization to be the biggest problem in the process. But in the end, it was (and still is). I think this is a major drawback for hybrid web apps. Unfortunately, we didn't notice until our app was almost done. Now we're sitting on a nice cross-platform app with now suitable and useful way of turning it into money.
We tried the following:
1. Using Cordova plugins (i.e. for Admob)
Result:
Very unreliable (inofficial plugins, not getting updated, don't really work cross-platform). For instance: the most recent one that includes the new Google Play SDK doesn't really work on iOS, especially on the iPad. It also interferes with forms in Kendo UI, we had a lot of user reports on this, especially on older smartphones.
2. Using HTML-/JS-based ads
Result:
99% of them is injecting JS and HTML by using document.write(), which does not work with Kendo UI. The other 1% (like AppNext) offers an JSON-/XML-API which allows very nice integration. Unfortunately due to the nature of this technique they only offer revenue through CPA, which is naturally very very bad. You won't earn much this way.
Right now we have AppNext running with CPA ads, but revenue is a joke compared to AdMob or other CPI/CPC solutions.
If anybody found a different solution, please share it here. We would actually pay for it. ;)
If there's no other solution to this right now, I'm afraid I can not recommend Kendo UI right now if you plan to monetize your app.