I have recently developed an API which can be used in Android applications. Could someone please let me know how I can make it available on Google Play? As far as I know, we can only upload apk's on Google Play and am not sure how to make api available.
Thanks in advance.
Could someone please let me know how I can make it available on Google Play?
You can't. The Play Store is for apps, not programming libraries, and I assume that your "API" is in the form of a JAR or an Android library project.
As far as I know, we can only upload apk's on Google Play
Correct.
The category tools in Apps is your best bet. Thought I would suggest actually promoting it yourself on a dev forum such as xda-developers or such. As you may not see much tracking otherwise.
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I have finished my project and I want to publish it on the internet. I have tried Google Playstore as well as different publishers, but I need to pay 25$ for a licence. Is there any free alternative.
Thanks in advance <3
There are alot of alternatives . I would recommend Amazon app store. But Google's play store is worth it. Since it's just one time payment unlike apple store
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I'm deploying my Nativescript app to Google Play and would like to use the Play Stores licensing tools so that the app can't be distributed in a malicious way. Is it possible to use these tools with a Nativescript app currently? It seems I need to use the Play services SDK but not sure how I can approach this. Support for the play services in NS are seem lacking. I'm just looking for some guidance and a decent approach.
I found an npm package for nativescript-google-sdk but that seems purely maps focused. It also hasn't been updated in quite some time.
I think the moment you upload your APK in the Google Play Store as mentioned in Native script docs, you'll have the option to configure the Licensing there. So you shouldn't worry. This SO thread might offer additional info as well.
What are some ways to distribute android apps quickly to specific people without publishing them to Google Play?
What kind of group?
You can publish your app on Google Play as beta and invite whoever you want.
A little bit faster method (but also a little bit more complicated to final user) is upload it also as beta on Fabric Beta (https://docs.fabric.io/apple/beta/overview.html)
If you want it to be fast choose Fabric Beta.
You can start a closed beta limited to a list of emails or an open one where anyone with a link to your app can install it.
Take a look at https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
I don't think it is possible to do that with Google Play. Have you tried HockeyApp?
EDIT: It is possible to use Google Play, although the people in you ur group don't need emails for HockeyApp. Sorry!
Is there any way android provides to restrict my custom application to get it published other than Google play store? And this app will not be a paid app so I can't use LVL feature and as per below discussion, we can't publish free app with licensing check:
LVL behavior on client side license validity check for free apps
So, not able to find any ways to restrict it to publish my free app to other stores :(.
Why I want to restrict it to publish it to other stores:
Because any hackers can download your app from google play store and inject malware in it and publish infected app to other stores.
Please provide me the guidelines to achieve it.
It doesn't matter. If you're worried about someone injecting malware into your APK just think- they can just as easily lie, say that they're your app, and upload pure malware. They don't actually need to be your app.
Beat them to it. Publish your app on the alternative app stores so that when they try to upload the package name is already taken by your original, clean version.
Here's an idea. Get the installer from here when your app opens and check if it is from Google Play by comparing it to com.android.vending. If it is not, block any use of the app.
But of course hackers can still download your app, remove this kind of security and upload it to other stores. But I guess this can give you an idea? Also Gabe Sechan's answer is possible too.
I need to publish a paid Android application. This means that the application is not free for download, payment is required before the user can download.
Can anyone help with the steps that I need to follow to achieve this?
Android's official site has all the explanations.
Have you read the Android Market help on the topic? It seems pretty exhaustive...
If you have any specific issues, it would help if you published them here to get the right answer.
If you are not eligible for a Google Merchant Account, you might consider hiring a proxy company.