Mat_1

Be careful with Facebook advertising, I tried it and over half of the likes were from click farms (users that arent real users, their profiles consist of thousands of likes and no engagement). With social advertising you need users that are ready to engage with you, your content and others. …

C++ is probably the best and I use it extensively along with many other languages, but as you are just starting out you need to ask yourself where you want your career to go. Do you for example want to develop games for console / PC / Mobile / Web …

Unity, HTML5 (vanilla, Construct 2, GameMaker etc) and Flash. I prefer HTML5. Construct 2 and GameMaker both have game editors. Unity also has a game editor, but its a little harder to learn because its more in-depth.

silt

You are looking at $2-$5 average per 1000 ads served for interstitials (based on my own experience with Flurry App Spot, Revmob, Chartboost and Inner-active), maybe more for video ads. I'm also seeingan almost double eCPM on iOS compared to Android. Banner eCPM is usually much lower ($1 or less). …

Hi, Just joined and enjoying being here, lots of interesting conversations going on Mat

There are a number of free books available for Android at https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md#android, the first on the list "Android 4 App Development Essentials" may be of help.

Codeproject have quite a few good Android tutorials, heres an example http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/102065/Android-A-beginner-s-guide