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Alex Devson
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Cross-Promote Your Android Apps for Free — HouseAds2 Library

If you have multiple Android apps, you're leaving downloads on the table. Every user who opens App A is a potential user for App B. But building a cross-promotion system from scratch? Too much work.

Enter HouseAds2

A dead-simple Android library that lets you cross-promote your own apps within your own apps. No ad network. No SDK. No privacy concerns. Just your apps, promoted to your users.

How It Works

  1. Create a simple JSON config with your app details
  2. Host it anywhere (GitHub, your server, wherever)
  3. Add the library to your app
  4. Your users see beautiful cards promoting your other apps

Features

  • 🏠 Self-hosted — no third-party ad network
  • 🎨 Beautiful UI — Material Design cards
  • 📊 Configurable — choose which apps to show where
  • 💰 Free — zero cost, forever
  • 🔒 Privacy-first — no user tracking

Why Not Use AdMob?

  • AdMob takes a 40% cut of cross-promotion revenue
  • AdMob requires Google Play Services
  • AdMob tracks your users
  • HouseAds2 does none of that

Quick Setup

HouseAdsDialog houseAds = new HouseAdsDialog(this);
houseAds.setUrl("https://your-json-url.com/ads.json");
houseAds.showDialog();
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That's literally it. Three lines of code.

👉 GitHub: https://github.com/p32929/HouseAds2

27+ stars. If you publish multiple Android apps, this is a must-have.


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