I have android apps hosted in google play.
I want to find if updates are available or not programatically along with version number.
Is it possible to get the current android app version in google play?
Thanks.
This is not possible as google don't provide any such api. If you want to do so then you have to create a web service which returns all your currently live apps versions and then check them in your app.
NO, GooglePlay is private. You cannot get the new version from Google player service.
But the PlayStore application will watch for all the downloaded applications for update.
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I am not able to find an api equivalent to
Installs: update of Google Play EMM API here in Android Management API.
Can anyone please help with the API or any policy that can be used to install an update to a fully managed device. There is a concept of policy.productAvailabilityPolicy to push beta updates of an app in Devices in Play EMM API, it's also missing in Android Management API.
I will be developing an app that uses Google Vision API in order to scan barcode. I am successfully able to write and test the app. However, I found out that the API has to be supported for Android's ICS i.e. version 4 and above. I am using Google Play Services 8.4 version. Will I be able to use this app? I have just created a prototype of app only.
In short is there any relationship between google play services and android version? If yes where can I find it. Thanks.
you may refer to this link in order to know more regarding google play services and android versions. https://developers.google.com/android/guides/setup
Here is what I was looking for. I wanted to check if version 8.4 of google play services is available for android 2.3 or not.
I'd like to implement banner-ads in my new app and stumbled across two possibilitys of doing this.
The first one is using the Android SDK: com.google.ads.*
The second one is using Google Play Services: com.google.android.gms.ads.*
I googled a lot and read the documentation but I found no resources which state the differences between both solutions.
What is the difference between both and which one is the best if I simply want to add banner-ads in my app?
Direct to the point,
The main difference is that if you use Google Play Services one then you will use Google play service APIs. If you use other modules of Google Play like maps, location, gcm, play games then you can use com.google.android.gms.ads.* but if you don't use other Services then use com.google.ads.*
Their behavior is same...
As Selvin did not post his comment as an answer I'll answer this question by myself:
Use the Google Play Services com.google.android.gms.ads.*
Don't use the Android SDK for Ads because it is deprecated:
Deprecated. On August 1, 2014, Google Play will stop accepting new or
updated apps that use the old standalone Google Mobile Ads SDK v6.4.1
or lower. You must upgrade to the Google Play version of the Mobile
Ads SDK by then.
Google Mobile Ads SDK
I'm about to put my Android app, which uses google api v1 onto the market. I now see that v1 has been depreciated and that I am urged to use v2 instead. I see that v2 appears an order of magnitude more complex and that google play services are needed.
Since google play services are needed does that mean that my app will only be able to be distributed on google play and not, say, be distributed from my own web site?
thanks, Gary
Since google play services are needed does that mean that my app will
only be able to be distributed on google play
No, you can still distribute through any channel you want. It is a requirement for the device, not the distribution. The device your app installs on needs to have Google Play Services installed, which a number do. It is very similar to the v1 maps which required the phones have Google Maps installed, reflected in the manifest via
<uses-library android:name="com.google.android.maps">
Google likes to keep everybody using their own system as per usual. But it should still be possible to distribute via your website. You would need to save it as a .apk file.
Heres how to save as .apk file
and Heres a tutorial on how users can download and install.
I want to read app rating from android play store of my app. To do this, is there any api provided by google or not?
Is there any other way to read rating of particular app?
You can try out Android Market API, as this is the unofficial API, i am not sure it will work fully.
To fetch Rating of a particular app, try HowToSearchApps from the same API.