Every time you publish even a tiniest update to your app to google play, you have to wait for a review process before an update will be published. This review process can take up to a few days at worst (because poor google is struggling with COVID, boo-hoo).
Anyway, is there a way to know precisely when it is reviewed and published via some API? I know they have e-mail notifications, but i need to make this process more automated. I don't mind sending a request every few minutes to get the status of my app. So far I have researched google play console API, but I couldn't find any methods to get an app status.
Most likely, google (being stupid as usual), didn't provide any way to do this properly. Maybe I can do this via directly parsing a google play console HTML page? Of course if it isn't against google's ToS. Thanks.
There's no such API to get the status of published or pending on the console, the only option is to open your google console where you'll see the notification about what's the status of your app.
And for parsing the Console Html page, I don't think so Google will allow you to do that.
You can give it a try.
Log in to your Google Play console, in All Apps chose a specific app you want to check.
In the dashboard tab exactly below your apps logo, you will see Production status.
Production status is INACTIVE if the app is not reviewed by Google and ACTIVE when the app is reviewed.
In the near app logo, you also have the view On Google Play link so you can click on it to see if your app published in Google Play or not.
See the photo with the inactive app:
Photo with an active app:
For automation maybe you can write some code and use View On Google Play link
and depend on link results to get active or inactive return info.
For example, if the app is not in the store link return:
We're sorry, the requested URL was not found on this server.
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I released android app "E numbers detector". App passed google review and I got mail that it is on play store. Weird thing is that I can acces my app only through google play developers console. F.e. If I want to tell my friend to install the app, I can not tell him name of app so he can find it on google store. I must enter my GP console and share url to my app with him via WhatsApp. That is so bad and I don't understand why this happens? I even tried searching my app with app name and developer name combined, or with the package name, but nothing helps.
Here is my app link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=myAndroid.app.hhodzic.foodinspector
I thought also that it has something to do with a number of downloads. But than I found out that the first app that is recommended when you write "E numbers detector" is app with ONLY 10+ downloads.
Please can anyone explain to me how does this works and how can I make my app visible on the google play store. Thanks in advance
You should just wait for 24-48 hours, Google takes time to index your app in the Google Play search.
I just searched for you app and it did appear in the search results. as I said it just need time.
Check your app status at Google Play Console.
App status: Helps you understand your app’s availability on Google Play and who it’s available to (such as testers, all Google Play users, etc.).
More info here
How long does google take to review app actions?
Is there anywhere in the dev console to see the review status? As there it for app review status.
Many thanks
Just to clarify...
I am not talking about the app itself. I am talking about APP ACTIONS.
It says here After you upload your app to the Play Console, we'll contact you at the email in Play Console with more information regarding the status of your App Actions review.
https://developers.google.com/assistant/app/get-started
Approximately it takes one to two weeks for App Actions reviews. Although, you might get an answer earlier.
I published my app in console. Everything went successful (listing, signing apk..). Finally app status came to PRODUCTION. According to google, if app status is production, it means that users can download the app from play store. But if i click view on play store, it shows URL not found. It's already more than 10 hours. Still i get the same message. Any help ?
Screen shot of app status
Google play URL not found
Get more info here:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9859751?hl=en
As per your case and the screenshot provided, your app still "In review".
Excerpt from the above URL:
Note: For certain developer accounts, we’ll take more time to
thoroughly review your app to help better protect users. This may
result in review times of up to seven days or longer in exceptional
cases. You’ll receive a notification on your app's Dashboard about how
long this should take.
So for now, you can only wait.
It will show after 5-7 days. Due to corona it's getting late in few days your app will start showing on google play store
I've an android app available on google play store and I want to create a referral system to engage users to share.
The app already has an share button which creates a link like:
Hey, have a look at this app...https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tomatedigital.&referrer=utm_source%3Dapp_referral_USERID
this way i can monitore through google play console and firebase dashboard which links generated downloads, it show the information pretty nice but i need to automatically get it.
would be awesome if i could get it inside the app so i show the sign up for to the user with the referer already filled... but i strongly think it's impossible
but if somehow i can get this information from google play console I could write a script which runs once per day and update the bonus to users with most shares
is that possible? how can i implement a referral system like this?
This can be done with the Google Play referral API which has some more docs here
I have developed few apps, and published them on google playstore, but it is not showing number of installs to user.
What's wrong in that, can you help me in that?
Look at this screenshot to understand my problem,there is no additional information shown for number of installs
My apps can be seen here.
By the way is google analytics code neccessary to show it?
I didn't implemented analytics code in my app.
It is not showing number of installs to user.
For new apps it takes around 1.5 to 2 days before the first set of download statistics show up. (if there are downloads during that period). Ratings on the other hand reflect immediately.
Also, If you see in on your developer console and not on your play store app: clear cache for the playstore app and restart the play store app. It will show up.
By the way does google analytics code neccessary to show it ? i didn't
implemented analytic code in my app.
No, implementing analytics in your app is not necessary. But, it is recommended if you want to have more accurate and sometimes real time overviews of your app details.