I have an app that i am developing that i need to deploy to only persons of my choosing. I don't want it to be available on the play store to the public. I simply want to make it available to selected persons. Is this possible with google play console?
I have tried doing it with Google play private app distribution but this seems to be a way in which companies can distribute apps to their employees. Such that the user would have to join the organisation. I don't want this type of distribution. I just want to be able to allow specific persons to download the app from the play store similar to how it works in closed testing.
Is this possible with Google play store console ?
You could just use closed testing and add the people you want to download the app into the channel using their email addresses.
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I am quite new to Teams and to building bots for it.
Using NodeJS, I built a simple prototype one that can receive notifications and send requests to my software.
However, my software is installed on-premises, which means all users using it have a different domain name for it (xxx.com, abc.com…). To be able to use it, the app needs to know what is the endpoint of the requests.
I wonder how I can build my bot app in those conditions and have it in the Teams Marketplace.
My question is :
I assume I want a team admin to set the domain name in some app settings before installing it for a team and users to use.
Is that possible somehow? Is it even possible to build such an bot app?
I suppose it is possible to achieve that by having the users install a custom app, but then the app cannot be in the Marketplace.
I also suppose I can ask individual users to first enter the name of the domain, it sounds repetitive and the info would then be stored in some userData.
Isn't there some teamData instead? Could it mean having one user set those information and have them stored for everyone?
I have two different types of Apps(Shopping & Games) & don't want to publish under same Google Play Developer account. I want one Google Play Developer account named: "online shopping" and other named: "Amazing Games"
Q#1: Will I create two different Google Play Developer accounts($25+$25) or there is any option to create 2 accounts with different names in single Google Play Developer account?
Q#2: If I create two different Google Play Developer accounts, then can I create it with different name & emails with same Laptop & IP?
Q#3: Then can I connect both with one Admob account?
Q#1: Will I create two different Google Play Developer accounts($25+$25) or there is any option to create 2 accounts with different names in single Google Play Developer account?
There is no option to create 2 stores under 1 google play account. So the only option you have is to create 2 separate google play accounts (one for online shopping and the other for Games) Which is $50.
Q#2: If I create two different Google Play Developer accounts, then can I create it with different name & emails with same Laptop & IP? Q#3: Then can I connect both with one Admob account?
Yes, You can create different name & emails with same laptop & IP, but I don't recommend that because whenever you got a termination on one of your accounts the other get terminated also (Google states that in their Policies).
Here's example of how google can detect multiple accounts and get all of your accounts suspended whenever one of them get terminated.
2 Accounts Under the same Laptop & IP
2 Accounts with Gmails created under the same laptop (Even if you connect them separately)
Same credit card used for the 2 accounts.
How to avoid that?
Use separate laptop and separate connection for your accounts (You can use RDP or Proxies, Be prudent with that and use some premium proxies,RDPs or Socks)
Use some OLD gmails, You can either purchase them or create new ones separately like stated above.
Purchase your accounts with separate credit card (You can use Gift Cards, Don't use service like Entropay, Google Don't love them and your accounts won't last long).
At last and not least, don't violate Google Policy to not get your account banned (Use your own Graphics, use keywords wisely and don't use copyrighted graphics or keywords).
Enjoy Google Play.
How google sorts the applications in a public developer/publisher google play profile?
I want my most important applications first in the store.
Once you've published your apps you can do this in the developer page settings in the Play Console. This lets you feature the apps you think are most important.
For all non-featured apps, Play decides how to order them. This may change in time, and is done to try and maximize value to the user, so may even be different for different users.
I am getting to launch a new app which is network based. Right now I do not have it scaled very large (I only have one server running). Is there anyway through Google Play that I can restrict the downloads to a couple of hundred people until I can purchase the scalability I need for my app? I want to have a maximum of a couple hundred people download the app a month so that I can scale accordingly. Is there anyway to do this besides removing it from the store every time I get too many downloads?
You could utilize Google Play Alpha/Beta testing which allows you to invite people to either a Google Group or Google+ Community and only those people can download your application from Google Play. That way you could cut off membership once you've hit a certain number of people (note that if you are using a Google+ Community, you want to make sure you make it Public - Moderator approval to join or Private) and then restart once you've scaled up.
However, if you are doing a traditional production publish of your app then there is no way to limit the number of people downloading your application.
we have 2 applications in the Play Store in 2 different developer accounts who essentially do the same thing. Is it possible to "merge" those apps, i.e. remove app A from the store and notify users of app A there's an update, which installs app B? Otherwise we would lose all users from app A.
To clarify: I do NOT want to merge the code, I want to get rid of app A but not lose the users, they should update to app B.
No. Google Play does not currently support this feature, and requests by myself to do the same thing have not been answered or were rejected.
You need to find another way to move users to a new app, which is not easy if they are in the hundreds of thousands.