Having researched some Android package naming conventions from this post, I learned that package names based on domains is the most common, and if one doesn't own a domain one can e.g. make a package name based on one's email address.
Now, I don't own a domain, and I'm not ready to buy one. However, I do find the email-address package names to be quite inelegant/amateurish. Would firstnamesurname.applicationname
instead be an appropriate package name for an app to be published in Google Play?