is there any way to give access to the statistics of a specific app on my google play developer account to a 3rd person?
I have various apps, one of them is developed for a customer and he asks access to the downloads and rest statistics.
At present, Google Play does not provide mechanism to enable access to a specific app alone, although you could give access to your whole Developer Console. The only thing you can restrict is the financial information. I hope this is not what you want.
In your case, you could provide screenshots if that is acceptable.
I ended up to use a google api to retrieve the statistics and create my web front end to show them to my customer.
You can find at http://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ a php version of the backend.
kudos to this post too: Is there an API to get statictics on Google Play developer console?
As far as I concerned, there is now way to give access to statistics only to 3-rd person, besides giving him your account information. For my personal usage, I developed a widget for tracking some statistics of my application and eventually I released it on the market. So I think it will be helpful to you as well Applications Tracker Widget is the app which will help you
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I am developer, selling my apps.
But I dont always have access to my PC, so I was thinking writing a simple app which would access my Wallet Account to see how much I earned this day/week/month.
Is there any API and some working example how to do this? THanks
Do you know about the official Play console app? It lets you check financial data among other things, like reply to reviews.
If you do need programmatic access there isn't an API, but you can Download reports from Google Cloud Storage which has an API. There are instructions on that page for both a command line tool access and a client library and service account.
If you want to request a review of your app you can use SKStoreReviewController on IOS. But i can't seem to find an equivalent for Android. Does it exist? Or do i need to add a custom implementation?
I'm afraid Google has not yet provided any such official API's. There's no way one can submit reviews/ratings without leaving apk.
Android provides now an API to make a review directly from app.
"The Google Play In-App Review API lets you prompt users to submit Play Store ratings and reviews without the inconvenience of leaving your app or game. ... to protect user privacy and avoid API misuse, there are strict guidelines that your app should follow about when to request in-app reviews and the design of the review prompt."
more information > https://developer.android.com/guide/playcore/in-app-review
I have an app that I want to market on google Play. Initially I want to charge a fixed price for the app.
I'm used to marketing apps on the Windows Phone Marketplace where a user simply has to pay to get the app - no "licensing" is necessary because the user can't get the app without paying for it.
I read the material about Google Play licensing and it seems to imply that unless I use the LVL, users can get ahold of my app for free. Is that right? On the other hand, if Google Play won't let them have the app without paying, why do I need to use licensing?
As the docs say, this is really to
verify that the current user did in fact pay for the application on Google Play
This is to combat piracy. Google Play won't give them the app without paying, but they might obtain the app from another source without paying and install it manually. This provides a runtime check.
We have an app that exists in the Google Play store that was created by a developer who is no longer at our company. We own the app and want to remove it, but we don't know what Google account the developer used to publish the app to the store.
Is there any way we can find out what account the app is associated with? If we try to log in under Google accounts we think it might be, Google wants to charge us $25 per guess.
If we can't find the account, is there a way to have Google remove the app for us if we can provide sufficient evidence that it's ours?
If the developer is unavailable or uncooperative, and you can prove that this app includes your intellectual property, you can file a DMCA request with Google, asking them to remove it from the GP store. Read the warnings on the page carefully:
http://support.google.com/bin/request.py?&product=androidmarket&contact_type=lr_dmca
You can't pull down the application from Google Play if you don't have the access to the account which is used to upload that application. If you are lucky and the developer who uploaded the app typed his mail as contact developer mail in application in Google Play, maybe in this way trying to send a mail you can find the account which is used to upload the app, but you can't trust that, because most of the developers and companies have different mails for communicating with the customers and it depends on that.
But if you contact to Google and explain them everything and as I told above if you are lucky you can convince them to delete the app from Google Play. Or the best situation in my opinion is to contact the developer who upload the application and ask him to remove it.
Good luck!
Pretty rough situation. I'm not going to advice you to use a corporate google account in the future, but I think the easiest way is to speak with the developer in person. Then explain to him that there are several clauses in his former contract with you, which concern the intellectual property obligations, signed by him.
If you don't have any, or if he was hired on a freelancer contract, with no mentioning of the above, then you'll have the real deal in the court when he sues you for "his" intellectual property (being th application), uploaded by him on the Play Store.
Of course, this is the worse case scenario, but you should consider it.
If you have nothing left, you can contact Google, as Android-Developer above me suggested, but you risk a denial.
It is a really complicated case and I would like to see the result of it, when you settle the things out.
I was wondering is there a way to get the apps user bought from Google Play Store or pretty much all the applications. Ofcourse this would need user permission but is there any api which can be used to fetch this information ?
No, there's no official API for getting all user activity on the Google Play store, outside of your own application. However, you can use technologies like LVL and/or in-app-billing APIs to determine whether a user has purchased your own app, from within your own app.
You can get all installed applications. Look the answer of Nelson Ramirez: How to get a list of installed android applications and pick one to run