I am developing a game for Android. This game is Pacman, I have seen it is already on Android Market. Anyway I would like to upload my app to Android when it is done. I am not looking for earning money, I just want to learn to program with Android SDK and I would like to put my app in Android app in order to put this in my CV. It would be for free.
Do you think there is any problem?
Thank you in advance.
The owners of Pacman can claim infringement and have it taken down, at least don't call it Pacman, that might help.
I dont see any problem in this.
You just have to pay a 1 time fee of $25
There is no problem with app with the same name. Main thing - is difference in packageName param in manifests file.
So, you can register for publishing on market(25$), and release your app with no problems.
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This is a question that I've not been able to fetch from StackOverflow or directly from Google. Is it maybe because I didn't search with the right words?
Well, anyway:
I'm trying to check if an app is a game by its packageName.
What I've researched:
I know the app could be checked if it comes from the Play Store, but what about if it comes from any store?
Inside the PackageInfo, there's the feature PackageManager.FEATURE_GAMEPAD but what about if it doesn't have any GAMEPAD or anything related? just a game of... puzzle for example?.
I know that from API >= 21 you can really check it, but what about the older ones?
Thank you very much in advance.
Regards.
Rafael.
I'm trying to check if an app is a game by its packageName.
By definition, that is impossible. For example, there is no universal definition of what a "game" is.
I know that from API >= 21 you can really check it
No, you can't, as there is no requirement for a game to have that flag set.
Check the app category in play store
Just parse the page of the play store for that package and get the category it is in. Games have a very distinctive category
I released my first android app yesterday, and got the direct link to the app working after 6 hours. But Its been > 24 hours now, and it still doesnt show up in the search on playstore.
I have been searching in the playstore both from my android device, as well as from desktop browser. The app simply isnt there.
Is this common? Is there something I can do to check the status/find out whats happening?
Thanks a lot
EDIT: the direct link is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidinput
EDIT: The issue was indeed that the name "Droid Input" was too general. Changed it to Moused . Hopefully it makes it a tad better once the update is pushed to prod. Thanks for all your help!
Sometimes newly published apps take time until they appear in search results. The app needs to be indexed in the Play Store before it starts appearing in search results. Also, make sure the app name has enough unique keywords so that it's easier to spot while searching.
All my apps were searchable minutes after the direct link started working. Can you post the name of your app.
Check those in Developer console
published area
minimal Android os
make sure it's published in developer console
If it's all right, don't worry, just wait to published
If your app have any problem google will send email to you
First of all,
you must check if you have no other updates,
second check if the website is not under going several changes if so than you might have to wait a couple of days
check your device for any out of the normal activity
if this is not resolved make sure to contact the company and explain them your issue,
regularly it shouldn't be happening to only you so there might be others with the same issue as you, it is unlikely that it could be your device but there is always that possibility that it might.
I have developed a android application which I want to publish to market. I have developed the app using Eclipse IDE I have gone through the publish related checklist and documents.
Here I have few doubts :
The certificate mentioned in the checklist, is it the same which I have used while exporting my app from Eclispe ?
I am a individual developer. Do I need to give the Company name ?
How much time it takes to activate once I publish the app ?
Any help is appreciated.
Regards,
Shankar
Yes. (I am assuming you followed the instructions at http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html)
You can give your name as the company name.
It is active immediately. :-) . There is no approval process or moderation.
I have recently published my sms scheduler app "In Time SMS". During the final days I face
same state as of you now. So, I think, I may can provide some answers to your questions.
For your queries:
It is the same certificate that you used during exporting app in eclipse. Save your keystore elsewhere.
You do not need a company name. You can publish your app as individual.
Normally it takes 15min-2hrs depending upon the published version distribution in several
servers of Google.
FYI:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.in.time.sms
http://intimesms.wix.com/reminder
Here's the scenario i am trying to achieve:
Publish/have an app in the Android app store
However - i do not want it to be searchable through the android market search, etc.
The only way people can access the app is if i give them an explicit link to download
Is above possible? If so - how? All FAQs/instrucitons i have seen publish & make it searchable for the whole world - but i want it only accessible through #3 above.
Thanks.
Try this site https://www.push-link.com/, you can upload apk on your private account and only can be accessible thorough automatic generated link and QR code. This service contains user notification on new versions and bug reports.
Two things that are problematic with the link to an APK approach:
Some of the devices out there (I m only aware of the Motorola Atrix) don't have the "Unkown Sources" option, meaning that this won't work on them.
You loose the ability to auto update the app if you want.
I would recommend adding a login process where only your users will have access to the actual application. This way, you still have the Market advantages and only those people can activate the application.
The main disadvantage is that the application will be open to search in the Market, but as far as I know, this won't be a problem since people will immediately uninstall it since they won't be able to activate it.
In your case, what I do is, I dont upload the application to the Market and distribute it from my server.
I mean this is simple, sweet and it also saves my $25 for the market account...
Don't do this. Just publish the APK to your own website, then give the users the URL to the APK, they can download and install it directly. The only thing they'll need to do is ensure that Menu-Settings-Applications-Unknown sources is ticked.
i have completed my First android application and i have deployed that application to different android based mobile phones
which is working fine.
my question to you is, is there iphone store like thing exists in android to upload your application by paying fee to android store or something like that..
or nothing or should i start passing my application to end users directly?
any help would be appriciated.
Yeah there is the Android Marketplace which you can find more details on at http://market.android.com/publish It costs $25 once off to register and you're free to upload your applications (which are available almost instantly)
Both is possible. You can distribute your app via the AndroidMarket and at the same time just share the apk file.