I've seen ads that display app stores as a popup rather than as a full screen view.
For Samsung Galaxy Store, I recently learned that this can be achieved if the url contains a query parameter with "form=popup". Does anyone know of a similar thing for the Google Play Store, either as part of the Intent or the Url?
Example:
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I've uploaded an Android App only available to four countries. I can't see its Google Play link indexed on Google search results. At first I thought it was due to it not being available in my country but running some tests I've found links to Apps not available at all in my country (for example ABC live TV) and whose results appear in Google Search results. Is there anything I must do to help Google index my App? I've seen there's a framework called Google Indexing but as far as I've read it's more focused on deep-linking rather than app discovery.
Just to clarify, I can access the App via the direct link from Google Play if I click on it on my Google Play Developer Console but I can't see my App in the search results if I look for it.
Can anyone just share some light about this issue?
Turned out to be just waiting for a couple weeks to wait for Google to index the App, now it's appearing properly
Google Play application on mobile devices, has the Feature Graphic at the top of selected application view.
Unfortunately it isn't shown on the play.google.com website. e.g. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android
Is it possible to obtain this graphic without using Google Play mobile application?
Thanks for help.
Ok, its bit of hackish and very simple
get to know the package name , here which is com.instagram.android
in google image search , search for this name
in size settings, make it exact 1024*500
Bang on! The first image you'll get is 99% the feature image
:D enjoy
We all know that the Google spider comes by your website now and then to update their database so your website shows up in Google Search.
Is their a way to tell Google all the text I have in my app so it will show the Google Play Store page of my app when a users searches for keywords I use in my app?
I looked into the new Android feature of Google Indexing but those deep-links are something different.
I would like to index the content of my app so it can be found in Google Search before the user knows about and installed my app.
Background info: My app has a lot of (static) textual content in TextViews.
There is nothing like this that I am aware of.
Google indexes the text you put in the description of your app when you publish it on the Google Play Store.
Take a look at this:
https://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/developer-console.html
And here is concrete advise on app discoverability from Google themselves:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/4448378?hl=en
When users tap 'share' on the Google Play App and use Facebook, a random image (from the ones I uploaded when I submitted the app) is used.
Could I change this image? Also, I want to know if I could change the text used for sharing via Whatsapp, Twitter, etc.
Thanks!
I'm working on a music application for Android.
I need two things:
Get album cover for artist, album name, track name, etc;
Open Google Play page for buying this album.
For the first thing I'm currently using iTunes API -- but this is not patriotic for true Android developer. If Google Play Music has similar service, I would preferred to use it. Does it exist?
What about second? I can use this code to show all search results according with my query:
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
.setData(Uri.parse("market://search?q=<My Query>"));
startActivity(intent);
But I want to show album or track buying page exactly. Is is possible for Google Play?
There's no official API for this from Google.
However, you can use an unofficial API that is being developed by Simon Weber. It's called Unofficial-Google-Music-API, and it seems to be actively maintained(as of this writing).
The documentation and examples are pretty straightforward, and you can find details about the song's metadata as listed here. Specifically, it gives an url to download cover art and the id for matching in the Play Store.
You may have to play around with the URL a bit for your search, though. For instance, you can use the returned albumMatchedId field to search by album like:
https://play.google.com/store/music/album?id=Bdkf6ywxmrhflvtasnayxlkgpcm
This should bring you to the album's page, where you can purchase each song or the entire album.
I haven't found a way to jump straight to a specific track, but I'm not sure if that's possible anyway, judging from the layout of the app.