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diff --git a/docs/html/distribute/googleplay/publish/console.jd b/docs/html/distribute/googleplay/publish/console.jd deleted file mode 100644 index 3831e51..0000000 --- a/docs/html/distribute/googleplay/publish/console.jd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,198 +0,0 @@ -page.title=Developer Console -@jd:body - - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<h3 id="user-accounts">Multiple user accounts</h3> - -<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> - - -<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> - -<h3 id="merchant">Linking your Merchant Account</h3> - -<p>If you want to sell apps or in-app products, you can link your Google -Wallet merchant account to your developer profile. Google Play uses the linked -merchant account for financial and tax identification and monthly payouts of -sales. </p> - -<h3 id="details">Your store listing details</h3> - -<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> - -<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> - -<h3 id="uploading">Uploading and publishing</h3> - -<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> - -<h3 id="controls">Distribution controls</h3> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<h3>In-app Billing</h3> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> - -<h3>User reviews and crash reports</h3> - -<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> - -<h3>App statistics</h3> - -<p>The Developer Console gives you detailed statistics on the install -performance of your app. </p> - -<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> - -<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> - -<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> |