I am migrating a few apps to App Signing, and to Android App Bundle. But since I'm not an account owner or account admin I can't do it.
In order to do it, you need to:
Upload the signing key (and optionally the upload key)
Accept the terms
The problem is that I am the developer, an admin only of my specific app. The terms have to be accepted by the account owner/admin. The account owner does not have the signing key, and shouldn't. So not sure how to proceed, as neither of us has all prerequisites for completing the process.
Q: Can the account owner somehow just accept the "Play App Signing Terms of Service", without having to upload a key?
P.S. There's the option to ask the account owner to make me account admin, which allows me to accept these specific terms (I'm currently only app admin). However, the account owner is not comfortable with giving me such high privileges, as they also have other apps on the same account. Not a solution.
Yes.
Ask Owner to go to Google Play Console, from left menu select Setup > App integrity
Click on Create release button
Then click on change app signing key
Choose use Google-generated key
Accept license agreement
And voila, now you can use it without admin privileges.
Note: This is tested many times before.
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Google play console is requesting to verify my identity.
The problem is that the verification form is asking for an organization info and docs while the account is for individual and that is provided in the account details screen.
So what am I missing? Where to go? Or how to contact google support?
I had this after emailing googleplay-developer-support#google.com. Solution: Your payment profile shouldn't be set as organization if your developer profile is set to individual and vice-versa.
Per checking, the payments profile associated with your account is set as an organization. You may choose to verify your account as an organization with the following documents that our system accepts: Certificate of Organization, and a valid ID of the organization's Official Representative.
If you would like to verify as an individual and change the entity type on your payments profile, you would have to create a new account in order to change from organization to individual. You may view your payments profile via pay.google.com
To change the entity type on your Payment Profile, it would need to be deleted and created again. Since a Play Console account can only be associated with one Payment Profile, it will need to be deleted and recreated as well.
To resolve the issue, we can close your Play Console account and refund the registration fee. Then, you can delete your payment profile at pay.google.com before you sign-up for a new Play Developer account. To proceed, please provide confirmation by responding with “I confirm to have my Play Console Developer account closed and have its registration fee refunded.” Also, please remove the existing draft app from the Developer account
I had this issue recently and it turned out it was because I had an old Payment Profile with Account Type of 'Organisation'.
You need to go here: https://pay.google.com/gp/w/u/0/home/settings
Personally, I had two payment profiles; one was for an Individual and one was for an Organisation. Maybe the Organisation one was the default or whatever.
In the end I managed to close that payment profile and create a new developer account after having the first one refunded.
There were a few emails to Google Support going back and forth but that solved it in the end and now I have an app on the Play Store.
I'm making an application to read and respond to the reviews of google play account for my applications. When I enter my google play account, settings > api access, the following message appears to me: "Only the account owner can configure API access. Please contact him to update the API settings."
Is it possible that the owner of the account that has published the application gives me permissions to generate the token only to read the reviews? Or only the owner can generate a global token to read the reviews?.
Regards!
As you've said, API can only be configured by the owner of Google Play Developer account. As an account owner, you can add users to your Play Console account and manage permissions across all apps or for specific apps. From this page:
Sign in to your Play Console.
Click Settings Settings > User accounts & rights.
To add a new user, select Invite new user and follow the on-screen instructions.
To update permissions for an existing user, hover over their email address and select the pencil icon Pencil icon.
Use the "Role" drop-down to choose a pre-defined role or use the checkboxes for individual permissions.
Choose whether each permission applies to all apps in your developer account ("Global") or specific apps.
To add an app to the permissions table, use the "Add an app" drop-down Drop-down arrow.
To see details for each permission, review the permission definitions
table.
Click Send Invitation.
You can only generate a token once you're added as an owner.
Additional reference:
How to give access to Google Play Developer Console Game services page to other accounts?
I have created an app in the Google Apps Marketplace SDK and now I have the "Test Install Flow" button, which is fine,. however, when I click it, a popup for business account signup appears and asks me to set up a real Google business account. How can I simply test it with the same developer account I have?
Had the same issue. It occurs when you first log in to Google with a non-Google Apps account (like a free Gmail account), after which Google Apps accounts are added (i.e. are logged in).
As Ben Clifford suggests in comments, one needs to be signed in first with a Google Apps account (after logging out completely). As a best practice, use Google Apps accounts in one web browser, and free Gmail account(s) in a different browser - to avoid further issues.
You have to test it with a Google Apps account. Apparently yours is not one of those, so they're asking you to sign up. If you have a different Google account that has Google Apps already, you can add that account to the project in Permissions -> Add Member, and then use "Test Install Flow" while logged in as that other account.
Our windows store application is especially for our customers.
It requires user credential to login.
It doesn't have any sign up page.
New users cannot access our application(They should be our customer.)
For new users, Admin will create an account and share them to the
user.
At the first time, user is requested to change password.
This is how our customer access our application
We submitted our free business app to the windows store.
But it is rejected with the reason saying "Apps that require users to sign in must either specify upfront in app description the type of access user must have and how to get it or provide a mechanism for new users to sign up for services from within the app. At a minimum this could be a link in the app to the website where the user can create a new account and sign up for services. Your app did not appear to provide this information to the user."
We do not have such a page. How can we proceed for resubmission?
Whether we need to provide description like "Our application can be accessible to our customers only"
or
provide support email address and saying like "Contact our support team/admin to create new account"
or
any suggestions?
Simply show a description which tells user that this app is only for registered customers. For more details you can write us to your email id or can fully describe the log in process there on the first page.
The description says it all. Include exactly what you have said in the application's description update. In addition include this information on the main page of your application for extra safety.
Note how DropBox has done it. When you install the app your very first screen has the login boxes and a link to "or Create an Account" which then brings you to a webpage to create the account.
You could link this to a page on your site that allows a user to contact your org for an account or register for one to then be approved, etc
I try to found answer for this stupid question, but didn't find it. I am having the error CSSMERR_TP_NOT_TRUSTED and I am trying to fix it.
My question is: What difference make put a "Certificates" in "Login" or in "System" in the "KeyChains" tab of "KeyChains Access" program? Is a good idea copy and paste all certificates in this 2 places?
Say things like: Certificates in Login is for use in login, and in system for system isn't the answer. :)
The System keychain is for System wide items. So if you were to have an identity for you laptop, that would be in your System keychain. Every user has access to it as well, so it's a good place for things like SSL certificates. It also takes admin credentials modify it.
On the flip side, you are the only person who can access your login keychain. It's actually locked with your account password. This is where your Apple Developer certificates should go. They are specific to you and identify a person, not a machine. Another big plus is that applications can request access to it without having admin credentials.