Our team will create a private android app for the users of different countries/organizations. I didn't understand the google docs about it. I have a developer account but they say if you want to publish a private app you need to add all organizations ID to your app. How can I reach all of them IDs? Is there a easy solution for my situation like creating an app privately and distributing with some special link for android users that I will share with different organizations.
(https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/6145139#zippy=%2Cpublish-to-your-own-organization:~:text=For%20each%20organization%20that%20you%20want%20to%20publish%20the%20app%20to%2C%20enter%20the%20Organization%20ID%20and%20a%20description%20(or%20name)%20and%20click%20Add.%C2%A0You%20can%20enter%20up%20to%201000%C2%A0organizations%C2%A0per%20app.)
Is there any better solution or some brief clarification about this topic?
for the organizations part,check out https://support.google.com/googleplay/work/answer/7042126?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccreate-a-managed-google-play-accounts-enterprise%2Cadministrator-account ,if you just want to share some special link with different organizations,check out internal app sharing
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Me and 2 other friends have made an app, and we'd like to publish it on the Play store. However, I can't find anything relating to how I can give them credit too if I were to publish it under my developer account. How can I ensure that they are both included as developers for the app?
Thanks in advance!
There are lots of different forms of credit, and so it will depend on the relationship between you and your friends.
If it is just moral credit, you could easily add a credits page in your app, or put information about them in the app description.
However, often these things come down to ownership. Conceptually the developer account an app is published under represents the entity (company / organization / person) who owns the app. If you want it to be reflected that you all own the app, I'd recommend:
create a new gmail address and a new developer account for things you do together called whatever you want to call the organization: eg "Me and My friends software".
then in the Google Play console add all of you as users with full permissions
That way it is very clear this app belongs to all of you. It also makes things easier if you want to found a legal company etc later.
I'm developing an Android Personal App which I want to make this app to visible only for specific people.
Is there any way to provide access through Play Store login ID?
Is there any way to provide access through Machine ID?
After a lot of searching I got an idea for 1st requirement Private Channel may be preferable. But I'm not getting this:
To enable the private channel feature, administrators and developers must use Google apps for an education, business, or government domain.
My app doesn't belong to any of the three categories(education, business, or government domain). Anybody, please share your ideas regarding my requirement. Thanks in Advance.
You can use the Alpha and Beta testing feature in the PlayStore.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
A production APK is not required to publish an alpha- or beta-test app
You can create a google+ group and only release that app to members of that group.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
I'd like to embed inapp purchases in my android applications. My friend also would like to implement the same feature in his applications. Is it possible to setup purchases from two different google accounts on the dedicated one ? To be more clear - it it possible to setup inapp purchases from my friend's applications (that's placed in his google acount) to my account ? The reason - my friend does not have merchant account on google play.
As what I have understood your question:
you want to place new application(your friend's application) in your account and also want to add your friend Google account(Testing account for the application) into Google play console.
My Answer:
Yes, it is possible for both cases.
1) you can add more then one application into your Google developer console. That means you can also add your friend application's signed apk file into your account by creating new application. And one more thing you have to add into console that is his Google account(Google id for testing application), you can simply add it from the settings tag.
2) you can also add more then one Google account(Google id for testing the application) for the single application by using commas. That means one application can be test by the two different accounts.
Let me know if I am not understood your question properly or may you want to explain something else.
Hope it will help you.
Would an app that requires users to purchase a non-digital product/service to get a login to the app be allowed on the Appstore (iPhone and Android)? If not what would be the correct method for distribution of private app?
There are plenty of apps in the app store that require something external. Nest app, for example, is probably pretty useless without a Nest thermostat. I think the app should just need to behave nicely if you don't have the external thing, the ticket in your case.
At least for Android (Google Play) there should be no problem if you don't force your users in app to purchase something outside of Google Wallet (e.g. in app purchases with PayPal etc., but I guess for buying tickets it's okay - if it is not done inside the app).
Here are their terms for more details: Google Play Terms
An other way would be more open markets like Bazaar (Android) or host it on your own server.
For private apps you can distribute your app under an Enterprise developer account. see here. but you have to pay more ($299/year)
I'm an Android developer and I already have an Android market publisher account. There are a couple of apps in my account.
I have an idea to create a little Android development brand(company)
and publish those new apps in a new publisher account.
So I want to know that is it legal having two Android Market publisher
accounts for the same person. Will I get into any trouble?
Also will Google suspend me if I use push ad networks like Airpush and leadolt?
Thanks a lot.
I don't see a problem with an individual having multiple Android Market accounts. Each will need to be tied to a different Google ID (email address). They may also have to be tied to different Google Checkout merchant accounts, although I don't know that for sure.
You cannot publish the same app (as determined by the package name declared in the manifest) on two Android Market accounts. You can ask support to transfer an app from one account to another.
I have no idea about using other ad technologies. I suggest that you ask the Android Market people directly. See this page for support info.
I don't think google will block app if you use Third party Ad-Suppliers.
I have been using TapJoy Ad service for an year.