Making some money by adding adverts to your App

When your beginning with Android and still learning the trade like myself, you are unlikely to find anybody who is willing to pay for your apps.  By adding adverts to your app you can still make some money though.  A quick  Google search should reveal a number of companies which offer API's which allow you to monetize your app.  Most of these API's work on the principle of paying you every time somebody clicks on an advert.

I use the AdMob API in order to monetize my Maths Test App (Search Sundev Pabla on the Android market to locate it.).  AdMob is owned by Google.  The following links will take you through the process of adding AdMob Adds to your app (They will probably do it a lot better than I can).

https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/android/fundamentals

and

https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/android/banner_xml

These links will tell you that once you have set up an Admob acount then:

Incorporating Google AdMob Ads into your app is a three step process:

1. Add the SDK JAR to your Eclipse project.
2. Declare com.google.ads.AdActivity in AndroidManifest.xml.
3. Set up required network permissions in the manifest.

I will leave you to set up an Admob account and to try and follow the above three steps for your self. If you get stuck, please feel free to post questions on the blog - Its reassuring to know that there are people out there who actually read it.  Good luck - I hope you make some money by monetizing your app.