I want to know, if I can in play console, use a company name instead of my real name, because, on the store, it displays my name next to my app, which I don't think looks good. So can I just change it to a company name? for example X corporation Is there something i need to keep in mind?
I know it's not a code related question, but I've searched for hours on google, and couldn't find anything useful.
Please help.
If you go to the main page of the console (before you choose your app) and select Developer Page, the top option is Developer Name. I expect changing that will do what you want?
It should not.
I have done recently for changing developer name to my company, then google terminated my account and removed apps from play store.
Google Play on Jan/2022
You can find out it on the Developer page.
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I published my first app to play store, but it cannot be found by name ( HOP! ).
it can only be found if i search it by my name and then put the app's name (HOP! teemu ilomäki).
link - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.TeemuIlomaki.HOP
It has been a week now, and what i seen people say is that it takes only a couple hours to show up. The app is available in every country and every device. If you have answer please tell me.
This happened to me as well, and it's complitely normal, because there are many apps on Google Play, so your app does not display even if you search for it, especially if there are many like that. It will display if you eventually get some downloads or promote it by paying, so that when searching that type of app it will be displayed before others who will have less downloads and rating than yours (or won't be promoted).
Hope this helped! :)
yesterday I created a simple "quote of the day" script for my google site. The script reads the quote from a google sheet. I also wanted each quote to go
with a companion image, which I host in my google drive (the image Ids also are stored in the sheet).
I followed the instructions explained here, and everything seemed to work fine. The permissions for the images was "everyone with the link within my institution" (this is supposed to work in a website on the google apps for education).
It was a success, because the images did display correctly.
Today I opened that page again, and the images have disappeared.
I know that image hosting was discontinued in 2016, but I think it was a different way of hosting (no permalink). Indeed, as I mention, yesterday I could see the images in the website.
Also, when I write the "permalink" in chrome address bar I get "403. That’s an error. We're sorry, but you do not have access to this page. That’s all we know." This happens despite I'm the owner of the file, and I'm logged in the correct google account. Also, it happens irrespective of the browser and/or machine I use (I tried with my phone too).
I also tried what explained here, although I'm not sure I understand that completely. There should be a problem though, because instead of the image I get the alt text (NA).
Is the "permalink" method still supposed to work?
Could this be a problem of excessive traffic? I haven't even published the page yet, I only did some testing...
What is the best way of displaying images from google drive into google sites, without resorting to third party services?
Thanks a lot
Francesco
You already answered your question. Hosting on Google Drive has been stopped.
However, you can try the workaround from this SO post where you'll use the URL:
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id={IMAGE_FILE_ID}
It worked fine when use with the <img src="{IMAGE_URL}"> HTML tag. That's the closest thing to what you're trying to do.
You can also try Firebase Storage where you host your images on the cloud and display them on your web page.
This is at least a partial answer to the problem I tried to explain, which I'm summarizing below:
I was hosting images for a page in my google site on my google drive, via the syntax
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id={IMAGE_FILE_ID}
the sharing settings of the individual images was "anyone with the link within [my institution]";
this worked for one single day and then stopped working: the images stopped showing, and I could not figure out why. All this happenened a few days ago (oct 21-22 2017), and hence cannot possibly have to do with google discontinuing a previous service, which happened in 2016;
this happened despite I was logged into the account in my institution (and hence the owner of the images).
I found out that the problem appears to be in the sharing settings. Apparently, the images only display if their sharing settings are "public on the web" or "anyone with the link". Instead "anyone with the link within [my institution]", or more restrictive settings won't work. The first settings were mentioned in the webpage I linked, but I thought it would also work with "anyone with the link within [my institution]" (and, for one day, it did).
I also tried by setting the permissions of the parent folder. In that case only "public on the web" would work. With anything more restrictive than that the images won't display.
Despite I carefully double checked all this, I think this permissions thing seems to be a bit erratic though.
As I mention, on the first day (oct 21) the images would display even with "anyone with the link within [my institution]. I could swear on my life that, before the systematic tests I just finished carrying out, all was working with the folder settings to "anyone with the link [within my institution]". Now that setting won't work.
I know, I said "it appears" a bunch of times. This is because all of this is just from my point of view, so far. I still have to share the link of the page I'm preparing. As soon as I can I'm going to ask a colleague to take a look at it.
What I anyway want is that the page displaying the images is visibile only to people within my institution, for the moment being.
However, now I'm at least able to see the images hosted in drive, in my website.
I just released one app yesterday. It's showing up in my country.
But I found out that it's not showing in some countries. How I can check that it's available in all the countries or not. What I need to do if I want to make int available in all the countries >
Depends on your app, maybe this helps. Otherwiese, have you read the localiaztion guidlines (like it is suggested by google to do so before releasing an app)? As far as I remember you are asked in the developer console in which country you want to rlease you app, but maybe this was only for payed apps.
Maybe this question is related to this one: This item isn't available in your country
quoting durbnpoisn answer:
Check your listing in the Developer control panel.
There is a listing for where the app is available (Pricing &
Distribution section - Manage Countries). The checkbox for whatever
country needs to be checked on. Otherwise, it's locked out.
For convenience, there is a box at the top that says "SELECT ALL
COUNTRIES".
For what it's worth, if the country in question is not on the list,
there is nothing you can do about that. There are a number of rules
and regulations about where Google Play can distribute stuff. You have
no control over that.
I have taken a series of notes in a book that I read on Google Play books. Is there a way to export these notes all together as a text document or some similar format?
Google has changed this and now if you have Android device you can get your notes on Google Drive. Simply do this:
Open Play Books on your Android device
Go to Settings
Save notes, highlights and bookmarks in Google Drive - turn this ON
This feature is still not perfect. The biggest problem I have is that page number is not recorded properly for most books. Instead, you just have link that opens the page in Google Play Books. Meaning, it'll probably work for you personally, but sharing notes and making sense of notes on different devices is problematic.
It isn't perfect but here is one way to do it. After doing this you will receive a zip file with your book(s) and an HTML (or JSON) file with your notes.
Follow this link to the Google Data Tools https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/downloads
Click the Create New Archive button
Click the Select None button
Go down to Google Play Books and flick the switch on
Hit the down arrow
Either download all or click on the Select Books radio (a popup will appear where you can select none again and search at the top)
After you have chosen your books, go to Next at the bottom
Pick your export options and you're good to go.
there is no such available function at the moment. I have submitted a request already, let's see what google developers say.
It works on some books and not others apparently. I can't produce a summary/review of Guttag's book for my class.I have the print version and just bought the Playbook version.
I'm looking for a simple information.
I want to get the name of the device the user is currently using.
For example, I want to get "Eric's Phone" (like in Zune).
Is it possible? I looked for the DeviceExtendedProperties (see link) or the UserExtendedProperties see link)
Thanks for you time.
"That information is not available to third-party apps."
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