Long story short: I created a mobile webapp a while ago and it seems fairly popular, especially on Android. Today I discovered someone created an Android App and listed it in Google's Play Store that just wraps my website.
My plan is now to create an Android Application myself, then show a message to users using this app that there is "a new version" of the app they can "upgrade" to in order to keep using my webapp.
I already know how to identify the set of users who are using this app from within JavaScript land, however I want to make transition as smooth as possible (ideally having the users click a button and be in the Play Store's page where there is a [Install] button). I've been reading lots of answers on this topic here but they all assume that one is in control of the android code, which I'm not:
Is there a way to break out of an WebView to a specific page in Google's Play Store ?
If all else fails, the message can say "please search for 'name of the new app' in play store", however that seems not ideal from a UX point of view.
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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.
My question is how to keep common leader board. Whether Google Play Game Services is way to keep it for both iOs and Android?
Yes, as long as the app ID, bundle name, leaderboards keys are same, common leaderboards should work just fine.
There is a problem in that iOS does not default to allow for the publically sharing of activity. This means that even though you may have requested the appropriate scopes in the platform definition for sharing of info, iOS will not publically be doing that.
Also - the leaderboard to be used through Google Play Games must have its Enable tamper protection set to OFF in order for the leaderboard to be shareable outside of the Android world (e.g.; Apple, web). If this property is set to off, the All setting for the leaderboard UI will show all users' high scores, except for the iPhone users which have not permitted their activity to be displayed publically.
Yes and no. It is technically feasible to implement the leaderboard however there is a massive caveat being that a gmail account that has not previously registered a Gamer Id will not be able to sign in. This is not mentioned in the docs. This issue is particularly insidious in that many people, myself included, used the same account for testing on android and ios. As long as you signed in on android first will then be successful on iOS as well. Which is great if your game targets people who use android and iOS simultaneously lol.
I have a simple 2 page phonegap application where the users can discuss and review about a particular game.
It has ajax calls and stores everything in a common database table on server.
So i can create say 5-6 apps for different games the app code would be almost exactly be the same just the game type string would have a different value.
Creating such type of apps, does it voilate google plays repititve content policy.
Does google come to know about this as the apps are not native ones, do they scan the html javascript code as well to check if all the code is same?
please help i dont want to get banned from google play
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