In the Google play store there is a "More by X" part on the page of the App. I want it so that the app is available by searching for it, but the other apps are not visible when you click on it.
The reason for this is that companies do not want to see similar apps created for competitors.
How do you do this?
As far as I can tell, there's no setting for this in the Google Play Developer Dashboard.
To avoid having apps created for other companies appear at the bottom of the page for their app, the company needs to create their own Google Play Developer account. You can then have the app transferred to them so it shows up under their company name.
But that only works if you're OK with not having the apps under your (business) name in Google Play. If you're not then they just have to live with it.
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I have released an update for my app in the Google Play Store. This is my first update prior to the initial release of the app.
Everything seems to have gone according to plan. If I check my store listing page in a browser, the update is live, along with the release notes under the 'What's New' section of the page.
However, if I launch the Play Store app on a physical device, tap my account icon in the top right corner of the screen to open the menu, select 'Manage apps and devices', then select 'See details' under the updates available section. This opens the 'Pending downloads' page for all apps.
I can see my app has an update, but if I tap the down arrow next to the 'Update' button, to display the 'What's new' information, there is nothing there. My release notes are not showing. It just states 'No information from the developer'.
I submitted my release notes, and they are displaying on my store listings page, so why not in the Play Store app?
Is there somewhere else in my Play Console where I need to add this information to get it to display in the Play Store app?
You are likely doing nothing wrong. This appears to be (another) Google bug.
The Google Play Store system seems to be broken in yet another way (it also thinks updates are available for apps when there is no compatible update available).
Release notes for all apps seem to be broken in the Google Play Store.
A discussion on XDA Developers Forums indicates others having problems with Google's Play Store.
Similarly, a discussion on Reddit talks about people having the problem with Google Play Store that you identified. A member of that discussion postulates a hypothesis as to why this may be happening:
Google strongly encourages turning on automatic updates and just blindly accepting every update. Sure seems like they've decided that if they blind us to what the updates contain, we'll just turn on automatic updates since we can't make informed decisions about them without the update info.
From the data I have gathered, this Google bug seems to be affecting all versions of Android.
I have uploaded an application in Google play. Application is available region specific. Application is uploaded in production with full-roll out.
In one of the device, application is visible and user installed it. After some X duration, same user in same device when he searches the application, application is not visible.
It's a strange behavior but why this behavior is seen?
Above scenario is searched in device Google play application only.
It might not always show if your app doesn't have enough unique keywords in the name. As stated in this thread, you can change your name in the Play Store Console and try some different combinations of words.
Also, there's possibility that your app that you're trying to search is not compatible with the device. This might be a reason why it is not showing up in your device. If you will sign into your Google account, then you click the install button (on the desktop site) it will show you the devices that are associated with that account asking with their compatibility. [Source.]
You can also check these related SO posts:
Google Play is not showing my app
It took almost couple of days for my app to show up. Just a small note, if you cannot find your app in the play store, try putting the name in double quotes like "Park The Car" or "Relationship Guru" and then search it. Even when Play store started showing my app, if I just search with the app name with no double quotes, I could not find it. I saw almost 500 apps and still I could not find my app. But on using double quotes, I got a perfect string match.
After 4 days app is still not indexed in Google Play search
Hope this helps!
Each time you release an app, the search ranking in the play store will be temporarily hit.
However, it will be restored within a day or two.
If your search visibility went out of ranking soon after the new update got to live in the play store, then there is nothing to worry about. It will be back soon.
Google Play search is a key tool for users to find relevant, and popular apps for Android devices. Ensuring that your app and store listing are thorough and optimized is an important factor in getting discovered by users on Google Play and you can optimize your search by following the steps in the following official link by Google.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/4448378?hl=en
My App was approved in Google Play Market 6 days ago, but it still cannot be found in search.
How long does it take until my app and developer name can be found in search ?
I have installs only from direct links and from my website
Usually doesn't take any longer than six hours. Are you sure that you published the app rather than simply saving the draft? If you open the Google Play Developer console just check your app. If you open the app in the console check up on the top right.
Did you try scrolling down the results list? From my experience google tends to display bunch of other apps that have different name then axact search phrase but are more popular or sth
I developed a new Android App and I would like to test the app among my inner friend circle. Therefore I want to publish the app to Google Play, but the app should not be visible to normal users, when they search for related keywords.
Only if I send the exact link to a user to, like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mydomain.myapp, I want them to see it and download it.
Is it possible to hide your App from search results?
BTW: I know this is not totally programming related, but who else would know, if not developers.
The "APK" section of the Google Play Developer Console has a "Beta Testing" tab that you can use to make versions available only to certain users.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
I basically want to detect the path from where users are getting to my android app market page.
What are the different keywords for which users are searching and thus viewing (if not necessarily downloading) my android app.
If they are clicking on my app from top free / top new free/ top free games
I can see that the above information being passed in the browser when I click on app icon through a certain path (like search, featured, top free etc.)
I want to catch this information and if possible, analyze so that I can better optimize my app performance on google play.
PLease Note: I am NOT talking about referral tracking which is provided when a referral link is clicked and that app is downloaded through google play app. I just want to analyze the behaviour of user when they are browsing the google play on their browser and finally reaching to my app display page.
Generally, no. As far as I know, Google doesn't expose that information for the most part. As for the information you found passed to your app by earlier version of the Market app, that was specific to the Market app and is referral tracking. It just happens that you're talking about organic referrals.
recently Google play and Google Analytics announced they would start sharing data with easy integrations, if you already have integrated the sdk in your app, just follow the process to enable sharing data. and you will start seeing data from both platforms including keywords and installation sources according to this link. http://analytics.blogspot.com/2013/10/google-play-integration.html