One of the other income reports that shows up is from someone who copied code for a Space Invaders game verbatim from Mario Zechner's, "Beginning Android Games". It's a great starting point for starting Android Games. Apparently the guy is making over $1.5k per month with 1/3rd from AdMob and the remaining from a more intrusive mobile ad company. It looks like there are some graphics improvements (new OBJ file for the spaceship) and a main menu screen but that's about it. It's a bit annoying, but on the other hand we have a guy almost making a living off of GPL software. (If he refused to release his GPL code, I guess we can be unhappy with him, but otherwise kudos!)<p>Another one is Frozen Bubble. There are a lot of clones based of Pavel forget-his-last-name's code. I'm not complaining about the existence of the clones as the code is open source.<p>However one of the developers irks me.<p>The developer's domain name for his support email was registered to a Kentucky Fried Chicken in San Mateo, CA very very close to Google HQ. I called. No one knew a thing about it. I sent info to Google through the appropriate channels, contacted the develoepr and then gave up after nothing happened and posted a review. All that happened was that my review has now turned invisible to others on the Market and his whois is now anonymized.<p>Excessive permissions on one his apps as well because of hidden analytics and phone ID mining. (I think if you're sending information off from a phone you should be explicit about it somewhere - at the very least on the web page for the app). He had pushed this app out and had 350 Google +1s almost instantaneously. 3 months later he hasn't even crossed 400. The devloper has seriously gamed the Market with several titles near the top rankings with just "okay" software.<p>Caveat about the KFC dev: I had a competing (not Frozen Bubble) game. For the first week of it being live it wasn't even searchable by name. Meanwhile his launched at the same time and his stats were reaching escape velocity.<p>Them's the breaks.<p>There are several ways to game the number of downloads you get. Some are more ethical and/or effective than others.