Google Play is the premier store
for distributing Android apps. It’s preinstalled on more than 400 million
devices worldwide, a number growing by more than a million every day. Android
users have downloaded more than 25 billion apps from
Google Play, growing at a rate of more than 1.5 billion per month.
When you publish on Google Play, you put your apps in front of
Android’s huge base of active customers, in more than 130 countries and
territories across the world.
Google Play is a central part of the Android experience. New
users personalize their devices with apps, games, and other Google Play
content. Existing users return regularly to see what’s trending and new.
Downloading new apps is extremely convenient and fast— Google Play pushes apps
to the user’s devices instantly, over the air. No cable or sync is ever needed.
Register for a publisher
account
The first step is to visit the Google Play Android Developer
Console and register for a publisher account.
Tips:
• You need a Google account
to register. You can create one during the process. It is
recommended not to use your main Google account for this purpose, so you can keep
this account separate from your other Google services.
recommended not to use your main Google account for this purpose, so you can keep
this account separate from your other Google services.
• If you are an
organization, consider registering a new Google account rather than using
a personal account.
a personal account.
• Review the developer
countries and merchant countries where you can distribute and
sell apps.
sell apps.
1. Visit the Google Play Android Developer Console at
Login to your Google Account, or open a new one by clicking the
signup button on the top right.
2. Enter basic information about your developer identity — developer
name, email address, and so on. You can modify this information later.
3. Read and accept the Developer Distribution Agreement that
applies to your country or region. Note that apps and store listings that you
publish on Google Play must comply with the Developer Program Policies and US
export law.
4. Pay a $25 USD registration fee using Google Checkout. If you
don’t have a Google Checkout account, you can quickly set one up during the
process.
When your registration is verified, you’ll be notified at the
email address you specified during registration.
Publishing your Android App
You can set up to start publishing on Google Play in
only a few minutes. Here’s how you do it:
1. Register for a Google Play
publisher account (If you already have a Google Play account, you can skip this
step).
You need a Google account to register. You can create
one during the process.
If you are an organization, consider registering a new
Google account rather than using a personal account.
1.1 Enter basic information about
your developer identity — developer name, email address, and so on. You
can modify this information later.
1.2 Read and accept the Developer Distribution
Agreement that applies to your country or region. Note that apps and store
listings that you publish on Google Play must comply with the Developer Program
Policies and US export law,
1.3 Pay a $25 USD registration fee using Google
Checkout. If you don’t have a Google Checkout account, you can quickly set one
up during the process.
1.4 When your registration is verified, you’ll be
notified at the email address you specified during registration.
2. Distribute your App as a paid App
Users that would like to sell their Apps needs to set
up a Google Checkout Merchant account, this process is not required for users
that would like to distribute their App for free, however please note that
if you will choose the App to be free you will not be able to change it to a
paid one later on.
To set up a Merchant account from the Developer
Console:
Sign in to your Google Play
Developer Console at https://play.google.com/apps/publish/
Open Financial reports on the side navigation.
Click Setup a Merchant Account now.
Open Financial reports on the side navigation.
Click Setup a Merchant Account now.
This takes you to the Google Wallet site to sign up as
a Merchant; you’ll need information about your business available to complete
this step.
3. The Developer Console
Once you’ve registered and received verification by email, you can sign in to
your Google Play Developer Console, which will be the home for your app publishing
operations and tools on Google Play. This sections below introduce a few of the key areas you’ll find in the Developer
Console.
All applications page: Gives you a quick overview of your apps, lets you
jump to stats, reviews, and product details, or upload a new app.
Account details page: Specifies your developer identity and contact
information, accounts for app testing, and more.
YOUR ACCOUNT DETAILS
The account details page is where you specify basic
information about yourself or your company in a developer profile. The
information in your developer profile is important because it identifies you to
Google Play and also to your customers.
During registration you must provide the information
for your profile, but you can go back at any time to edit the information and
change your settings.
Your developer profile contains:
§
Your developer name — the name
you want to show users on your store listing page and elsewhere on Google Play.
§
Your developer contact
information — how Google can contact you if needed (this information isn’t
exposed to users).
§
Your developer website URL —
shown to users on your store listing page so they can learn more about your
company or products.
4. Publishing a new App
4.2 On the popup screen choose your App default
language and your App name and click the “Upload APK” button.
4.3 Click the “Upload your first APK” button and
upload the APK file which you have created on the Wiziapp WordPress plugin
control panel.
4.4 Choose the “Store Listing” tab on the top left
side menu:
4.4.1 Fill your App description.
If you would like to add a disclaimer about the App
required permissions, please copy the paragraph below:
Permissions:
§ Storage – Allows us to save the App caching resources
in order for the App to load faster.
§ Network Communication – Enables the App to access the
web.
§ Your Account – This permission is needed to register
your device ID with Google Cloud Messaging for the push notifications service
to be enabled. The App will never attempt to place a phone call or use it in
any other way.
§ System tools – Enable us to add a shortcut to your
home screen.
§ Development tools – Enable us to add a shortcut to
your notification center.
§ Phone calls – This permission is needed to register
your device ID with Google Cloud Messaging for the push notifications service
to be enabled.
4.4.2 Upload your App screenshots – You can create
your App screenshots from one of the following ways:
-Users that have access to an Android device, just
send the APK file to your Email, open it on the device, click install and take
screenshots of your preferred App screens.
-Users that have an iPhone
device, browse to your Wiziapp powered webapp on your iPhone browser, click to save the App to
your iPhone home screen, open it from the iPhone home screen, take the
screenshots of your preferred App screens and Email it to your
desktop. You will also need to resize it for the Android screenshots
requirements.
4.4.3
Upload a High-res icon, 512 x 512, 32-bit PNG.
4.4.4 Select your application type as “Application”.
4.4.5 Select your App category.
4.4.6 Select your App content ratings.
4.4.7 Fill in your App contact details.
4.4.8 If you wish to provide a privacy policy URL for
this application, please enter it or check “the Not submitting a privacy
policy URL at this time”.
4.4.9 Click to save (see top button).
4.5 Choose the “Pricing and Distribution” tab on the
top left menu.
4.5.1 Choose the App price to be Free or Paid.
4.5.2 Choose the countries to distribute the App.
4.5.3 Check the last 2 checkbox on the bottom of the
“Pricing and Distribution” screen as follows:
-Content guidelines
-US export laws
4.5.4 Click to save (see top button).
4.6 Choose the “Services & APIs ” tab on the left
menu:
For activating the push notification service – Click
the “Link sender ID” and enter your API Key which can be found on the Wiziapp
WordPress plugin control panel – “Publish to Google Play”.
5. Click to publish the App by
changing the top right button dropdown menu from “Ready to Publish” to “Publish the App”.
Updating your Android App
In order to publish an update to your Android App,
please follow the below steps:
Creating a new APK file:
On the Wiziapp WordPress plugin control panel, edit
your App settings and click the “Save Changes” button. Please wait while
the system creates your new APK file.
Uploading the new APK file to
the Google Play market:
2. Choose the APK tab on the
left, then click the “Upload new APK to production”, save it and
republish the App.
The update will be available on the Google Play market
within several hours.
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