I'm an Android developer and I already have an Android market publisher account. There are a couple of apps in my account.
I have an idea to create a little Android development brand(company)
and publish those new apps in a new publisher account.
So I want to know that is it legal having two Android Market publisher
accounts for the same person. Will I get into any trouble?
Also will Google suspend me if I use push ad networks like Airpush and leadolt?
Thanks a lot.
I don't see a problem with an individual having multiple Android Market accounts. Each will need to be tied to a different Google ID (email address). They may also have to be tied to different Google Checkout merchant accounts, although I don't know that for sure.
You cannot publish the same app (as determined by the package name declared in the manifest) on two Android Market accounts. You can ask support to transfer an app from one account to another.
I have no idea about using other ad technologies. I suggest that you ask the Android Market people directly. See this page for support info.
I don't think google will block app if you use Third party Ad-Suppliers.
I have been using TapJoy Ad service for an year.
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We have a G Suite account, and I would like to manage some of our company owned tablets as kiosk displays using the Android Management API. However, it seems to require an arbitrary "personal" Gmail account, instead of allowing a G Suite user to use it.
To provision a device, you need to create a policy. A policy needs to be assigned to an enterprise.
Option 1: Trying to link an existing enterprise
You can get your G Suite Organization ID from here, and this ID is apparently also your Enterprise ID. The API needs it in the format enterprises/id, e.g. enterprises/abcdefg
Unfortunately, even after authenticating with a super-admin, any calls to the API are met with
{
"error": {
"code": 403,
"message": "Caller is not authorized to manage enterprise.",
"status": "PERMISSION_DENIED"
}
}
Option 2: Creating an enterprise
A Quickstart Guide is available that makes it easy to create an enterprise, create a policy, and then provision devices. Everything works well when we use a personal Gmail account and I could successfully provision a tablet into kiosk mode. As soon as I try to use a G Suite account, I am met with:
"G Suite is not currently supported by managed Google Play Accounts, please choose a non-G Suite account to continue."
Do we need to create an arbitrary Gmail account (e.g. ourcompany-devices#gmail.com)?
What happens if we then later wanted to provision devices of third parties? Would everyone's devices then be linked to an enterprise of an arbitrary Gmail user?
Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
We did option two. However this means that you cannot put something onto the private play store.
Android Management API is currently not compatible with GSuite.
You need to use a Gmail account to create a Managed Google Play Enterprise in order to use Android Management API.
If you plan on provisioning devices for third parties, it is suggested that you create a separate Enterprise for each in order to link each device to the intended enterprise.
You can read about Managed Google Play Accounts here
I've published apps to our internal 'enterprise' and also to our pseudo-enterprise (option 2).
I don't think there is any other way unfortunately. Just make sure the gmail account credentials are very secure and I think it is reasonably safe.
After doing option 2 you do get an organization ID. One thing that isn't mentioned in the documentation is that things don't happen instantly and much of the process is poorly documented. I spent hours searching up solutions for issues I was having and the solution ended up being I just needed to wait a few hours.
If you are publishing first-party applications on Google Play you can make them available as private apps to both your internal enterprise and the pseudo-enterprise.
I'd like to embed inapp purchases in my android applications. My friend also would like to implement the same feature in his applications. Is it possible to setup purchases from two different google accounts on the dedicated one ? To be more clear - it it possible to setup inapp purchases from my friend's applications (that's placed in his google acount) to my account ? The reason - my friend does not have merchant account on google play.
As what I have understood your question:
you want to place new application(your friend's application) in your account and also want to add your friend Google account(Testing account for the application) into Google play console.
My Answer:
Yes, it is possible for both cases.
1) you can add more then one application into your Google developer console. That means you can also add your friend application's signed apk file into your account by creating new application. And one more thing you have to add into console that is his Google account(Google id for testing application), you can simply add it from the settings tag.
2) you can also add more then one Google account(Google id for testing the application) for the single application by using commas. That means one application can be test by the two different accounts.
Let me know if I am not understood your question properly or may you want to explain something else.
Hope it will help you.
To be clear, I am an Android Developer - and sold one of my apps (i have 5 in my account) to a business contact of mine. I want to transfer that ONE app from my developer account to his developer account.
It seems Android clearly defines how you transfer apps from an old account, to a new account (but both of those accounts are owned by you - and in this case the old account is closed down)
How do i transfer this one app i sold, with out affecting either account, or without hurting/losing the apps ratings/reviews/rank etc?
There is no official way to do this that I know of. As you mentioned, there is a support page that suggests that Google has this capability. I would recommend that you contact the Android Market support team and ask them directly, clearly explaining your situation. That page says:
Contact us from both the original email address and the new email address requesting to transfer applications. We require emails from both accounts so that we can confirm ownership.
So I think it's not so much about owning both accounts as much as proving that this isn't a fraudulent transaction. If you explain the situation and have both yourself and the contact you sold the app to email them, that would confirm that both parties have consented.
I'm not sure if the Android Market support team will actually do it, but it's worth a shot.
I don't have an answer to your question, but hope you realize that you can't change the apk signing key for signing the app. If you do, users can't update and you have to release the app with a new package name.
Verify you have everything ready in checklist:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/checklist/3294213
Ask to transfer your app to target Google Play account e-mail:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/contact/appt
Always remember to get original signing key for the app from developer. If he's using one singing key for all of his apps, it's his fault.
My company would like me to manage paid Android applications in Android Market but not have access to the linked google merchant account. This is a very reasonable request but there seems to be no way to accomplish this. According to google docs the same google account must be used for the market and merchant account therefore if I have access to one then I have access to the other.
How do other corporations deal with this? Am I missing something?
If the company uses google-apps (see here), it can create an account for you and revoke/grant the particular service.
I'm trying to give someone else at my office access to the download statistics for our app in the Market, but there seems to be no way to permission it (like in Flurry, et al). Anyone know a way to give others access?
Last I checked, no, only one Google account can access the market. I think that somewhere it says they're working on adding the multi-user feature.
As a workaround, my team created a new Google account which we share the password of. After creating a new account you can assign ownership of all the existing marketplace apps to the new account via a support request.
Here's a support forum thread discussing it:
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Android%20Market/thread?tid=327297c08485a353&hl=en