I'd like to know how to tell the Play Store that my application uses the Play Games APIs for leaderboard, achievement and soon multiplayer games.
I've seen an app where it is visible in the description of the app, as seen in that screenshot :
How can I do the same thing ? Do I have to add something in the manifest ? Change something on the developer console (I haven't seen anything related to that).
Quoting my answer from another question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/17633229/226508
Implementing the Google Play Game Services features is not sufficient,
your users have to use the service for you to get the badges.
Let me quote from this video from Google I/O 2013: Practical Android
Games Development http://youtu.be/ZbQWf7C5ymU?t=23m39s
"As you get more users you will get badges. [...] However, they are
not just given out because you put them in the config, and we don't
snoop your APK to see if you are making API calls from there. We
verify how much the feature is being used and if you meet certain
threshold we give you a badge. So you need to actually integrate it,
it is not a token thing that you can put there to get more eyeballs in
the store."
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I have a simple app which can be played by all the age group, but it also use leaderboard service in the game ( But this is not mandatory ), Any one can completely play the game with out login to google sign in. Now here is where i am stuck.
First they reviewed and said
"My Game seems to be good for kids" so add the family policy requirement and i followed and i added all the age groups.
Once i did everything, they rejected saying i am using google sign in and its not allowed if i target the kids.
I cant remove that though, and its not mandatory to sign in, its upto user whether to use it or not. But i am ready to remove from family requirement and to change the target back. But then they reject saying my game is appealing to kids, its icon is animated character. WHAT I NEED TO DO ?
Their review system is broken i believe. What can i do now ?
I'm Jacob from the Android Developer Relations team.
No promises on a different outcome, but we recommend you file an appeal using the link that was provided in your rejection email so we can take another look at this. If you can't find it, you can also find details on how to appeal here:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7218994?hl=en
Also and very importantly: do you mind sharing your APK name so I can pass it along to the Play team? I'll ask them to keep an eye out for your appeal.
I am working on finding a way to make a widget for my Android device to show the number of installs I have on my Android app. So far my idea is to make an app that reads information from the Google play console but I can't find any way to get that information. Any ideas how?
Google play does not offer any official APIs to get that information, but you can use third party APIs for that if you want to.
One example is apptweak.
For similar needs you can use unofficial api that is here on google codes.
it can be used to retrieve app details and other android market data. like :
>You can browse market with any carrier or locale you want.
>Search for apps using keywords or package name.
>Retrieve an app info using an app ID.
>Retrieve comments using an app ID.
>Get PNG screenshots and icon
There is already an official Google Play console app that offers this information and a lot more.
It doesn't have a widget, but you could contact the developers to ask for one. I sit near them so I'll mention the request.
I have a issue when using Game Service of Google. I use Leaderboard and Achievement in my game. But when I run direct from PC to Device, all things is normal.
But when I export apk file and upload it on Goole Play, I got a issue in below image.
Please check the given quality checklist which is presented with minimum requirements, best practices, and good-to-have enhancements to deliver the best possible product to your players.
In addition to that, since nothing shows in logcat, you may also try going through these references and/or tutorial:
Troubleshooting Issues in Your Android Game
Google Play Game Services: Leaderboards
I launched an app on google play store this week. The app uses Google Play Games Leaderboard and Achievements APIs. Should the app page in play store app not show these icons/badges like it does in other apps that use these APIs? Do i need to enable it anywhere?
These are the icons/badges I'm referring to (image below). How do i add/enable these? Do i need to do anything in the app apk to get these?
Just had a chat with the Google Play support team. They said that it gets enabled automatically after a certain threshold (a few hundred users from what they said) is reached. So basically no additional configuration/setup is required to start showing the icons. I'm just going to wait a few days and see if it pops up. Will update.
I added Google PlayServices at beginning of the year, so its active almost a year.
Currently 330 users are in the leaderboard of my game. But that symbols still not appeared;-(
In general what I can see is that the initial requested acceptance of the PlayServices in my game, is distracting a lot of people. From 10 people who download the game only 3 will register the PlayServices.
Some of the other might even directly deinstall it, not noticing that my game can also used without.
A lot of people dont want it either because of privacy or because they expecting unwanted data traffic.
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