About

How-To Geek is an online tech magazine and one of the top 500 websites in the US. Since it was created more than a decade ago, the site’s 10,000+ in-depth articles have been read more than 1 billion times. More than 15 million people read our articles every month.

What do we do? We explain technology.

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  • Desktop Display, Email, Mobile Display, Social
  • CPM
  • Web Publisher
  • Headline:
    We Explain Technology
  • Self / Managed Service:
    Managed Service
  • Industries
    Technology
  • Key Differentiator
    Get your products and services in front of our millions of readers. We offer a range of options, including display ads, newsletter promotions, and sponsored articles.
Site Traffic
  • 3541 Global Rank
  • 1785
    United States
  • 28.5 M Estimated Visits
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  • Search
    80.03%
  • Direct
    16.26%
  • Referrals
    1.44%
  • Mail
    1.25%
  • Social
    0.99%
  • Display
    0.02%
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Mobile App Data
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  • 1 K Downloads
  • 10 SDKs
  • 3.9 Avg. Rating
  • 13 Total reviews
  • App Url: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.howtogeek
  • App Support: http://www.howtogeek.com/
  • Genre: education
  • Bundle ID: com.howtogeek
  • App Size: 3.03 M
  • Version: 3
  • Release Date: April 5th, 2014
  • Update Date: April 5th, 2014

Description:

Welcome to How-To Geek, a Site for Geeks.

We are an online tech magazine, dedicated to providing interesting articles, how-tos, and even fun trivia to our audience of geeky — and not-so-geeky readers. We’ve tried really hard to make sure that our content is understandable for regular people, but geeky enough that the more technical readers would find it interesting as well.

ActionBarSherlock
Deprecated ActionBarSherlock is an extension of the support library designed to facilitate the use of the action bar design pattern across all versions of Android with a single API.
AdMob Mediation
AdMob Mediation is a feature that lets you serve ads to your apps from multiple sources, including the AdMob Network, third-party ad networks, and AdMob campaigns. ... This guide is your one-stop shop for integrating mediation into your AdMob app.
Android API
The Android platform provides a framework API that applications can use to interact with the underlying Android system. The framework API consists of: A core set of packages and classes. A set of permissions that applications can request, as well as permission enforcements included in the system
Android Youtube Player
The YouTube Android Player API enables you to incorporate video playback functionality into your Android applications. The API defines methods for loading and playing YouTube videos (and playlists) and for customizing and controlling the video playback experience. Using the API, you can load or cue videos into a player view embedded in your application's UI. You can then control playback programmatically. For example, you can play, pause, or seek to a specific point in the currently loaded video.
Google Analytics
The Google Analytics SDK for Android makes it easy for native Android developers to collect user engagement data from their applications. Developers can then use the Google Analytics reports to measure: The number of active users are using their applications. From where in the world the application is being used. Adoption and usage of specific features. Crashes and exceptions. In-app purchases and transactions. And many other useful metrics... The Google Analytics SDK also gives you the tools to monitor the success of mobile marketing campaigns. Connect user interactions with paid ads, Google Play downloads, and subsequent in-app usage and Ecommerce transactions. Google Analytics provides a powerful platform to measure and optimize all of your application marketing efforts.
Google Mobile Ads
Ad Manager uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK which helps app developers gain insights about their users and maximize ad revenue. To do so, the default integration of the Mobile Ads SDK collects information such as device information. iOS setup Android setup.
InMobi
Leverage InMobi’s technology platform and exclusive access to mobile intelligence, and create new paths to understand, identify, engage and acquire consumers.
OrmLite
ORMLite is an Object Relational Mapping package that provides simple and lightweight functionality for persisting Java objects to SQL databases while avoiding the complexity and overhead of more standard ORM packages. ORMLite also supports native database calls on Android OS.
PhotoView
Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures.
ViewPagerIndicator
Paging indicator widgets compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library and ActionBarSherlock.Paging indicator widgets that are compatible with the ViewPager from the Android Support Library to improve discoverability of content.
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