[hemmerling] Google Android 7/14 - App Publishing

Related pages:

• Google Android:
  • Android 1/14.
  • Android 2/14 - Apps.
  • Android 3/14 - App Development I.
  • Android 4/14 - App Debugging & Testing.
  • Android 5/14 - Simulators, Skins, Operating Systems, System Images.
  • Android 6/14 - App Protoyping.
  • Android 8/14 - Hardware.
  • Android 9/14 - Amazon Fire TV.
  • Android 10/14 - TV compatible Apps ( for Android TV, Google TV, Amazon Fire TV.
  • Android 11/14 - Browsers & Internet Apps ( for Android TV, Google TV, Amazon Fire TV ).
  • Android 12/14 - Google Android, Suggestions for Smartphone Apps to be installed on any Android Smartphone.
  • Android 13/14 - App Development II.
  • Android 14/14 - App Development III.

• My first 3D VRML Android App, made with Unity.

• Google Play Developer Console.

• “Upload error. You uploaded an APK that is signed with a different certificate to your previous APKs. You must use the same certificate. Your existing APKs are signed with the certificate(s) with fingerprint(s): [ SHA1: ... ] and the certificate(s) used to sign the APK you uploaded have fingerprint(s):[ SHA1: ... ]” .

• Google Developer Console Help "Graphic assets, screenshots & video".

1. Phone.
   1. General photo:“You need to resize your screenshot. Min length for any side: 320px. Max length for any side: 3840px. Max aspect ratio: 2:1.
   2. Hi-res icon: “512 x 512, You need to reduce the size of your image to 1MB”.
   3. Feature graphic: “1024 w x 500 h”.
   4. Promo Graphic: “180 w x 120 h”.
   5. TV Banner: “1280 w x 720 h”.
   6. Promo Video: YouTube video URL.
2. Tablet.
   1. 7-inch tablet.
   2. 10-inch tablet.
3. Android TV.
4. Android Wear.
5. General photo.

• “If you wish to provide a privacy policy URL for this application, please enter it below”.
• Third-party privacy resources.
  • iubenda blog "Privacy Policy for Android Apps".
    • iubenda "Mobile App Privacy & Cookie Policy Generator - iOS, Android, WP".
      • “So, once you have registered, you can use our online generator which allows you to generate a customized privacy policy autonomously, starting from $27/year per site/app and per language. In order to get started, you just have to follow our 3-steps process”.
      • iubenda "iubenda Cookie Solution – Introduction and Getting Started" - “We have recently launched an all-in-one cookie law solution to comply with the EU cookie policy (always required if you want to use Google products such as AdSense)”
  • TermFeed "Privacy Policies for Android Apps".
  • Quora "What are some examples of a mobile app privacy policy?".
  • FREE PrivacyPolicy.
  • App Privacy.

• “Reimagine your app for the biggest screen in the house with Android TV. To submit your app for review, you need to include a 'Leanback launcher intent' in your app”.
• Android Developers "Develop Training / Building Apps for TV / Building TV Apps / Get Started with TV Apps".
• Android Developers "TV App Quality".
• Android Developers "Distribute / Google Play / Distribute to Android TV".
• GitHub "googlesamples/androidtv-Leanback" - “Android TV Leanback Support Library sample app http://developer.android.com/training/tv/”.
• StackOverflow "How to launch leanback launcher in Android TV?".

• Android Developers "Android Auto".
• Google Play "Google Play Android Auto Addendum" / "Android Auto-Zusatz zur Vereinbarung für den Entwicklervertrieb".
• “Upload your Auto-enabled apps to distribute them to Android Auto. To remove your app from the Android Auto program, please remove the 'Auto' manifest entry from your APK and re-upload”.

• Google Developer Console Help "Designed for Families".
• Google Play Developer Policy Center "Privacy and Security".
• Android Developers "Designed for Families.
• Google Play "Designed for Families Addendum".
• Android Developers "Distribute / Google Play / Developer Console".
• Google Play "Developer Policy Center / Store Listing and Promotion" - “Metadata”.
• Google Support "Google Developer Console Help "Content ratings for apps & games".
• Google Play "Developer Policy Center" - "Let's build the world's most trusted store for apps and games".
• Google Play Developer Policy Center "Intellectual Property, Deception, and Spam".
• Google Developer Console Help "Upload an app".
• Google Developer Console Help "View & diagnose Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) statistics"
• Google Developers "Let's set up your mobile app with some of these Google services!" - “Pick a platform”, “Enable Services for my Android App”.
• Android Developers "android.speech".
• Google Play Developer Policy Center "Monetization and Ads".
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC) "Children's Privacy".
• “Target audience: Mixed Audience (targets children and older audiences)”.

• Design your app for tablets.
• Tablet App Quality - “8. Target Android Versions Properly”.
  • “4. Use Assets Designed for Tablet Screens”.
  • “8. Target Android Versions Properly”.
  • “10. Declare Support for Tablet Screens”.

• See Google Android 6/7 - App Protoyping.

• At Google Play website, you can't write reviews.
• You may write reviews in the “Google Play” app, for each app on the app page. You must not have installed the app to write a review!

• Google Support "View and analyze your app's ratings and reviews".
  • Browse ratings.
  • Browse reviews.
    • Using the Play Console website.
    • Using the Play Console app.

• Especially with “Android Inventor 2” apps, you should process the ”.apk” file by the “AppToMarket” desktop application → See Google Android 6/6 - App Protoyping.