I've uploaded an Android App only available to four countries. I can't see its Google Play link indexed on Google search results. At first I thought it was due to it not being available in my country but running some tests I've found links to Apps not available at all in my country (for example ABC live TV) and whose results appear in Google Search results. Is there anything I must do to help Google index my App? I've seen there's a framework called Google Indexing but as far as I've read it's more focused on deep-linking rather than app discovery.
Just to clarify, I can access the App via the direct link from Google Play if I click on it on my Google Play Developer Console but I can't see my App in the search results if I look for it.
Can anyone just share some light about this issue?
Turned out to be just waiting for a couple weeks to wait for Google to index the App, now it's appearing properly
I know it might sound weird! Is it possible to link the number of downloads of your app from your site to reflect on Google play store?
I don't think you can access directly from the site, but you can use the WhereDat app search API
We all know that the Google spider comes by your website now and then to update their database so your website shows up in Google Search.
Is their a way to tell Google all the text I have in my app so it will show the Google Play Store page of my app when a users searches for keywords I use in my app?
I looked into the new Android feature of Google Indexing but those deep-links are something different.
I would like to index the content of my app so it can be found in Google Search before the user knows about and installed my app.
Background info: My app has a lot of (static) textual content in TextViews.
There is nothing like this that I am aware of.
Google indexes the text you put in the description of your app when you publish it on the Google Play Store.
Take a look at this:
https://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/developer-console.html
And here is concrete advise on app discoverability from Google themselves:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/4448378?hl=en
In the google i/o 2014 there was a vast introduction of new Google play services APIs. I learned that there is an API called address by which users don't have to put their address manually and this API will take all the information dynamically from his/her gmail account.
In my project I just want to set the address in a TextView but I didn't find any single tutorial on it over the internet. I have set the google play service library as a library project in my project but I cant do further on this occasion, any help?
You can refer this post from Android Developer blogspot to get more details
http://android-developers.blogspot.fr/2014/03/google-play-services-43.html
I searched lot for the same you want, there is no details available except the package details and this blog post,
In the post they have mentioned
That’s it for this time. Now go to work and incorporate these new features to make your apps even better!
And stay tuned for future updates.
I think they will come up with the tutorial and documentation in near future
Update: I got a hint from the the Google Opensource wallet sample,
You can get the the idea when you look at this file thoroughly
https://github.com/googlewallet/instantbuy-android/blob/f3ed08dfc13d843fe15c397c72df440ba32309e8/src/com/google/android/gms/samples/wallet/PromoAddressLookupFragment.java
I created a sample app based on this file and succeeded.
I have two apps in the google play store. Is it possible to create an http link from one to another in the description of the first?
Google Play descriptions do not support links.
That not true.
You can add links to other application in google play with <a> tag.
For example, link to my app:
ROS Sensors
You can look at my description app how i do it:
ROS Sensors
We can provide links in play store description using two methods.
Visit Link https://www.google.com
Output in play store app:
Visit Link https://www.google.com
Output in play store website:
Visit Link https://www.google.com
Note :
The below code will not make any link in play store app
Visit Link https://www.google.com
Google Play descriptions do not support links. You can tell the reader the name of the app, nothing more.
Plus, in any case, your app will come under the "Related Apps" and "More from developer" headings in most cases.
If you put full url address in app description (with https protocol, not only www) it will be visible as a link in browser.
eg:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=domain.company.appname
Of course google play links to apps aren't nice so you can use some url converters.
Google has documentated how to properly link within google play to other resources like a store listing, developer page, a search result etc..
Linking to a store listing
Use the format below to deep-link directly to an app's Store listing page, where users can see the app description, screenshots, reviews and more, and then install it.
To create the link, you need to know the app's fully qualified package name, which is declared in the app's manifest file. The package name is also visible in the Google Play Console.
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_name>
Here's an example:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.maps
A URL of the following form will be converted to a clickable link and will redirect to the address specified in YOUR_URL.
https://www.google.com/url?q=YOUR_URL
eg: https://www.google.com/url?q=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=domain.company.appname