# Questions related to publishing to android play store
**URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/questions-related-to-publishing-to-android-play-store/1324699
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X
**Created:** [June 4, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/questions-related-to-publishing-to-android-play-store/1324699 "2021-06-04T06:50:00Z")
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### Author:  [@manyone](https://community.thunkable.com/u/manyone)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 6:50am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/questions-related-to-publishing-to-android-play-store/1324699/1 "2021-06-04T06:50:01Z")
i have several questions about publishing an app to the android playstore.
1. if i have a free (not PRO) thunkable account, can i specify at publish time that my app will have ads? if yes, who supplies the ads? google?
2. if i have a free account, can i put a price on my app? (say $2.00) and by luck, 5000 people buy it? who gets paid what? do google and thunkable get a cut?
3. if i have a pro account, can i specify that my app will have ads? is this where AdMob comes in? do i register to AdMob (for a fee?) does AdMob compute payments based on number of times ads were viewed while customers were using my app? who gets paid what? do google and thunkable get a cut?
4. are there other entities similar to AdMob. Can we use them while we have a PRO account? or is this applicable to PRO accounts only?
5. if we show ads, are we required to upload “apps-ads.txt” to the root directory of our website? is this a google requirement or AdMob requirement? are there instructions how to fill it out? if we only have a free google site account as our website, can we upload it to our root? how?
6. since i have the ability to download the APK of my app, can i give away the APK to my friends, free? can i sell it?
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### Author:  [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2021, 5:20pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/questions-related-to-publishing-to-android-play-store/1324699/2 "2021-06-04T17:20:02Z")
1- Yes, you need a PRO account for the ads and you need to use AdMob.
2- Yes, you can. You will share the revenue with Google only.
3- You will need an AdMod account and you will need to assign Thunkable to manage it. Thunkable will take part of your ads earnings.
4- There are other ad providers but currently Thunkable has AdMob component only.
5- IDK
6- You are allowed to distribute android apps but not iOS apps.
Hope that helped.
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### Author:  [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/questions-related-to-publishing-to-android-play-store/1324699/3 "2024-11-08T13:22:04Z")