| page.title=Developer Console |
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| <p>Once you've <a |
| href="{@docRoot}distribute/googleplay/publish/register.html">registered</a> 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.</p> |
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| <div class="figure" style="width:756px;"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-home.png" class="frame"> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>All applications page</strong>: Gives you a quick |
| overview of your apps, lets you jump to stats, reviews, and product details, or |
| upload a new app. </p> |
| </div> |
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| <div class="figure-right" style="width:450px;"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-profile.png" class="frame"> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>Account details page</strong>: Specifies your developer |
| identity and contact information, accounts for app testing, and more.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <h3 id="profile">Your account details</h3> |
| |
| <p>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.</p> |
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| <p>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. </p> |
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| <p>Your developer profile contains:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Your developer name — the name you want to show users on your store |
| listing page and elsewhere on Google Play. </li> |
| <li>Your developer contact information — how Google can contact you if |
| needed (this information isn't exposed to users).</li> |
| <li>Your developer website URL — shown to users on your store listing page |
| so they can learn more about your company or products.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>On the account details page you can also register for a merchant account, set |
| up test accounts for Google Play licensing, and more. </p> |
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| <h3 id="user-accounts">Multiple user accounts</h3> |
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| <p>If you are working with a team, you can set up multiple user accounts to |
| access different parts of your Developer Console. The first account registered |
| is the <em>account owner</em>, with full access to all parts of the Console. The |
| owner can add <em>user accounts</em> and manage what parts of the Console they |
| have access to. For example, an owner can grant users access to publishing and |
| app configuration, but not access to financial reports. </p> |
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| <div class="figure-right" style="width:450px;"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-details.png" class="frame"> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>Store listing page</strong>: Lets you upload your |
| graphic assets, description, support information, and other information to |
| create the store listing page for a specific app.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <h3 id="merchant">Linking your Merchant Account</h3> |
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| <p>If you want to sell apps or in-app products, you can link your Google |
| Checkout Merchant account to your developer profile. Google Play uses the linked |
| Checkout account for financial and tax identification and monthly payouts of |
| sales. </p> |
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| <h3 id="details">Your store listing details</h3> |
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| <p>The Developer Console lets you set up a colorful storefront page for your app |
| called the <em>Store Listing page</em>. Your Store Listing page is the home |
| for your app in Google Play — it's the page users see on their mobile |
| phones or on the web when they want to learn about your app and download it. |
| </p> |
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| <p>You can upload custom brand assets, screen shots, and videos to highlight |
| what's great about your app, and you can provide a localized description, add |
| notes about the latest version, and more. You can update your store listing at |
| any time, even if you don’t have a new version of your application.</p> |
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| <h3 id="uploading">Uploading and publishing</h3> |
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| <p>From the Developer Console you can quickly upload a release-ready APK and |
| publish it when you're ready. The app is a <em>draft</em> until you publish it, |
| at which time Google Play makes your store listing page and app available to |
| users. You can unpublish the app at any time.</p> |
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| <h3 id="controls">Distribution controls</h3> |
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| <p>In the Developer Console you can manage what countries and territories the |
| app is distributed to and, for some countries, you can choose what carriers you |
| want to target.</p> |
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| <p>You can also see the list of devices that your app is currently available to, |
| based on any distribution rules declared in its manifest file.</p> |
| |
| <h3 id="selling">Selling and pricing your products</h3> |
| |
| <p>The Developer Console gives you tools to set prices for your apps and in-app |
| products. Your app can either be free to download or priced (charged before |
| download). </p> |
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| <div class="sidebox-wrapper"> |
| <div class="sidebox"> |
| <p>See <a href="http://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=138294&topic=2365624&ctx=topic">Supported locations for distributing applications</a> for a list of countries where you can distribute or sell your app,</p> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
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| <ul> |
| <li>If you publish your app as free, <span style="font-weight:500;">it must |
| remain free</span>. Free apps can be downloaded by any users in Google |
| Play.</li> |
| <li>If you publish it as priced, you can later change it to free. Priced apps can be |
| purchased and downloaded only by users who have registered a form of payment |
| in Google Play.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <p>In addition, you can sell in-app products and subscriptions in your app, |
| whether the app is free or priced. You can set prices separately for priced apps, |
| in-app products, and subscriptions.</p> |
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| <p>If you are selling a priced app or in-app products or subscriptions, the |
| Developer Console lets you set prices in a large number of different currencies. |
| When users around the world visit your store listing, they see the price |
| of your app in their own currency. For most countries, the price you set is the |
| final price charged to users, inclusive of taxes. </p> |
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| <p>To help you manage your prices, the Developer Console provides an autofill |
| capability that uses recent exchange rates to populate the prices in all |
| supported currencies. You can change prices for apps and in-app products at any |
| time, just by saving changes in the Developer Console.</p> |
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| <h3>In-app Billing</h3> |
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| <div class="sidebox-wrapper"> |
| <div class="sidebox"> |
| <h2>In-app Billing</h2> |
| <p>For details on how to implement In-app Billing, see the |
| <a href="{@docRoot}google/play/billing/index.html">In-app Billing</span></a> |
| developer documentation.</p></div></div> |
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| <p><a href="{@docRoot}google/play/billing/index.html">In-app Billing</a> is |
| a Google Play service that lets you monetize your apps in more ways by selling |
| in-app products and subscriptions. In-app products are one-time purchases, while |
| subscriptions are recurring charges on an monthly or annual basis.</p> |
| |
| <p>From the Developer Console you can create product lists for in-app |
| products and subscriptions, set prices, and publish.</p> |
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| <div class="figure-right" style="width:410px;"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-reviews.png" class="frame"> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>User |
| reviews page</strong>: Gives you access to user reviews for a specific app. |
| You can filter reviews in a number of ways to locate issues more easily |
| and support your customers more effectively.</p> |
| </div> |
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| <h3>User reviews and crash reports</h3> |
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| <p>Google Play makes it easy for users to submit reviews of your app for the |
| benefit of other users. The reviews are also extremely important to you, since |
| they give you usability feedback, support requests, and important functionality |
| issues direct from your customers. </p> |
| |
| <p>The Developer Console also lets you see crash reports, with stack trace and |
| other data, submitted automatically from Android devices, for debugging and |
| improving your app.</p> |
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| <h3>App statistics</h3> |
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| <p>The Developer Console gives you detailed statistics on the install |
| performance of your app. </p> |
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| <p>You can view installations of your app measured by unique users, as well as |
| by unique devices. For user installations, you can view active installs, total |
| installs, daily installs and uninstalls, and metrics about user ratings. |
| For devices, you can see active |
| installs as well as daily installs, uninstalls, and upgrades.</p> |
| |
| <p>You can zoom into the installation numbers along several dimensions, |
| including Android platform version, device, country, language, app version, and |
| carrier (mobile operator). You can see the installation data for each dimension |
| on a timeline charts.</p> |
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| <p>At a glance, these charts highlight your app’s installation peaks and |
| longer-term trends, which you can correlate to promotions, app improvements, or |
| other factors. You can even focus in on data inside a dimension by adding |
| specific points (such as individual platform versions or languages) to the |
| timeline.</p> |
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| <div style="width:530px;"> |
| <img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-stats.png" class="frame"> |
| <p class="img-caption"><strong>App statistics page</strong>: Shows you a variety |
| of statistics about a specific app's installation performance over time.</p> |
| </div> |