Scratchpad completes one year on google play store today. The Scratchpad is my first mobile app. I developed it during my last winter vacation. I took total of 5 days to learn (Android app development) and develop this app. This is a very very simple drawing app (similar to mspaint), no fancy features.
In this blog post, I am posting download statistics over the year. These data might be helpful to other Android newbie developers. The images below are screenshots from the android developer console.
Total downloads stat:
The total number of downloads are not much. But this is not bad at all if I consider the fact that this is my first app, total time I spent to develop this app and features provided by this app.
Active device install stat over the year:
Initially number of downloads per day were very small. In fact, there was no download in initial few days. Then I posted about this app on reddit (/r/androidapps), then people started downloading it.
Active device install by Android version:
The Android version 2.3 is at top for productivity app but the Scratchpad is available only for Android version 3.0 and higher.
Active device install by country:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIGNdq0fAmg0r_Hc8E6rCa53XcT7AnvF08e6WTyGTXg98AxyX1jwYNc9lgxavYmUdPtQL6okV6qkl64q7F87MqNL5yxFskno-Ryp_bVNPqaDpVa_TekP0oyLOZLubmbz38WxzUWdsYDFUD/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-01-01+at+9.05.46+AM.png)
The United States is at the top of this list. This is an interesting data. I am finding similar statistics for my iPad app (Lekh Diagram, a sketch recognition app for iPad). Even for the Lekh Diagram, more than 50% downloads are from US
In this blog post, I am posting download statistics over the year. These data might be helpful to other Android newbie developers. The images below are screenshots from the android developer console.
Total downloads stat:
The total number of downloads are not much. But this is not bad at all if I consider the fact that this is my first app, total time I spent to develop this app and features provided by this app.
Active device install stat over the year:
Initially number of downloads per day were very small. In fact, there was no download in initial few days. Then I posted about this app on reddit (/r/androidapps), then people started downloading it.
Active device install by Android version:
The Android version 2.3 is at top for productivity app but the Scratchpad is available only for Android version 3.0 and higher.
Active device install by country:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIGNdq0fAmg0r_Hc8E6rCa53XcT7AnvF08e6WTyGTXg98AxyX1jwYNc9lgxavYmUdPtQL6okV6qkl64q7F87MqNL5yxFskno-Ryp_bVNPqaDpVa_TekP0oyLOZLubmbz38WxzUWdsYDFUD/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-01-01+at+9.05.46+AM.png)
The United States is at the top of this list. This is an interesting data. I am finding similar statistics for my iPad app (Lekh Diagram, a sketch recognition app for iPad). Even for the Lekh Diagram, more than 50% downloads are from US