Publishing Apps On Play Store

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Once You Are Ready Building Your App You can Publish it On the google play store.

Overview

Google Play gives you an easy way to distribute your applications to Android users. Key features of Google Play include:

• Open: Google Play is open to any developer.
• Simplicity: Join Google Play in 3 easy steps: Register, upload, and publish.
• Community: Android users can rate and comment on applications.
• Choice: Choose between distributing free and paid applications.
• Manage: Your application portfolio: view downloads, ratings, and comments.

You can set up to start publishing on Google Play in only a few minutes. Here's how you do it:

• Register for a Google Play publisher account
• If you will sell apps, set up a Google Checkout Merchant Account
• Explore the Google Play Android Developer Console and learn about the tools for publishing

Register for a publisher account

The first step is to visit the Google Play Android Developer Console and register for a publisher account.

Here's what you have to do during registration:

1. When your registration is verified, you’ll be notified at the email address you specified during registration.Visit the Google Play Android Developer Console at https://play.google.com/apps/publish/ .
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.

( NOTE: 

• 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.
• Review the developer countries and merchant countries where you can distribute and sell apps.)

For Selling Paid Apps you Need to follow this step Also

Set up a Google Checkout Merchant account

If you want to sell products on Google Play — priced apps, in-app products, or subscriptions — you will also need to set up a Google Checkout Merchant Account. You can do that at any time, but make sure to first review the list of merchant countries.

To set up a Merchant account from the Developer Console:

1. Sign in to your Google Play Android Developer Console at https://play.google.com/apps/publish/
2. Click on the "Edit profile" link.
3. Select "Setup a Merchant Account at Google Checkout".

This will take you to the Google Checkout site to sign up as a Merchant; you'll need to have information about your business handy to complete this step.

The Developer Console

Once you've registered and received verification by email, you can sign in to your Google Play Android 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.

Your Developer Profile

Developer profile: Specifies your developer identity and contact information, stores your developer key, and more.

Your developer profile identifies you to Google Play and to your customers. During registration you can provide 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 product details page and elsewhere on Google Play.
• Your developer contact information — how Google can contact you if needed (this information isn't exposed to users.
• Merchant information, in-app billing information.
• Your developer public key for licensing and In-app Billing.

Multiple user accounts

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 account owner, with full access to all parts of the Console. The owner can add user accounts 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.

Linking your Merchant Account

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.

Your product and listing details

The Developer Console lets you set up a colorful storefront page for your app called the product details page. Your product details 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.

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.

Uploading and publishing

From the Developer Console you can quickly upload a release-ready APK and publish it when you're ready. The app is a draft until you publish it, at which time Google Play makes your product details page and app available to users. You can unpublish the app at any time.

Distribution Controls

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.

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.

Selling and pricing your Products

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).

• In addition, you can sell in-app products and subscriptions in your app, whether it is free or priced. You can set prices separately for priced apps, in-app products, and subscriptions.If you publish your app as free, it must remain free. Free apps can be downloaded by any users in Google Play.
• If you publish it as priced, you can change it to free, Priced apps can be purchased and downloaded only by users who have registered a forms of payment in Google Play.

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 product details page, 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.

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 Develoer Console.

App statistics

The Developer Console gives you detailed statistics on the install performance of your app.

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, and daily installs and uninstalls. For devices, you can see active installs as well as daily installs, uninstalls, and upgrades.

Once you are done with publishing your App... Publish your App For more popularity of your App

Promote Your Apps

After you publish your app, you can bring Android users to your app's product details page by providing links in your social network posts, ad campaigns, app reviews and articles, your web site, and more.

You can use the resources in this section to create deep links for your online placements. Google Play badges are an especially great way let Android users know that your app is available and link them directly to your download page. With the badge generator, they're also easy to make.

Hope you all got how to publish your Apps on Play Store...