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binary.</p>

<p>Later, as you add features or address code issues, you can publish an updated

binary at any time. Google Play makes the new version available immediately and

binary at any time. Google Play makes the new version available almost immediately and

notifies existing customers that an update is ready for download. To streamline

the rollout across your customer base, Google Play also lets users accept

automatic updates of your app, so that your updates are delivered and installed

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style="font-weight:500;">Developer Console home page</span>: Gives you a quick

overview of your apps, lets you jump to stats, reviews, or product details, or

style="font-weight:500;">All applications page</span>: Gives you a quick

overview of your apps, lets you jump to stats, reviews, and product details, or

upload a new app. </p>

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<h3 id="profile">Your Developer Profile</h3>

<h3 id="profile">Your Account Details</h3>

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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span

style="font-weight:500;">Developer profile</span>: Specifies your developer

identity and contact information, stores your developer key, and more.</p>

style="font-weight:500;">Account details page</span>: Specifies your developer

identity and contact information, accounts for app testing, and more.</p>

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<p>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

During registration you must provide 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>

<li>Your developer name &mdash; the name you want to show users on your product

details page and elsewhere on Google Play. 

<li>Your developer contact information &mdash; how Google can contact you if

needed (this information isn't exposed to users.

needed (this information isn't exposed to users).

<li>Merchant information, in-app billing information.</li>

<li>Your developer public key for licensing and In-app Billing.</li>

</ul>

<h3 id="user-accounts">Multiple user accounts</h3>

<p>If you are working with a team, you can set up multiple user accounts to

have access to. For example, an owner can grant users access to publishing and

app configuration, but not access to financial reports. </p>

<h3 id="merchant">Linking your Merchant Account</h3>

<p>If you want to sell apps or in-app products, you can link your Google

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style="font-weight:500;">Product details page</span>: Lets you upload your

style="font-weight:500;">Store Listing page</span>: Lets you upload your

graphic assets, description, support information, and other information to

create the product details page for a specific app.</p>

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<h3 id="details">Your product and listing details</h3>

<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>product details page</em>. Your product details page is the home

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.

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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 product details page and app available to

at which time Google Play makes your store listing and app available to

users. You can unpublish the app at any time.</p>

<h3 id="controls">Distribution Controls</h3>

<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="profile">Selling and pricing your Products</h3>

<p>The Developer Console gives you tools to set prices for your apps and in-app

<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 change it to free, Priced apps can be

purchased and downloaded only by users who have registered a forms of payment

<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>

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<p>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,

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 product details page, they see the price

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 Develoer Console.</p>

time, just by saving changes in the Developer Console.</p>

<h3>In-app Billing</h3>

and support your customers more effectively.</p>

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<h3>User reviews and error reports</h3>

<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 error reports, with stack trace and

<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>

<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, and daily installs and uninstalls. For devices, you can see active

installs, daily installs and uninstalls, and metrics about the user reviews.

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,

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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span style="font-weight:500;">App

installation statistics page</span>: Shows you a variety of statistics about a

statistics page</span>: Shows you a variety of statistics about a

specific app's installation performance over time.</p>

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<h2>Checklist:</h2>

<h2>Checklist</h2>

<ol>

<li><a href="#process">1. Understand the publishing process</a></li>

<li><a href="#policies">2. Understand Google Play policies</a></li>

them for you. Screen shots and videos are also very important, because they show

what your app looks like, how it's used or played, and what makes it different.</p>

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<h3>Localize your promotional graphics and videos<span class="new"> new!</span></h3>

<p>Google Play now lets you provide different promotional graphics for each

language you support. Localizing your graphics helps you reach your global

user base more effectively and is highly recommended.</p>

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<p>All of your graphic assets should be designed so that they are easy to see

and highlight your app or brand in a colorful, interesting way. The assets

should reference the same logo and icon as users will actually find in the All

<p>To help you market your app more effectively to a global audience, Google

Play lets you create localized versions of your promotional graphics,

screenshots, and videos and upload them to the Developer Console. When a user

visits your app's store listing, Google Play displays the promotional graphic

and video that you've provided for the user's language.</p>

visits your app's store listing, Google Play displays the promotional graphic,

screenshots and video that you've provided for the user's language.</p>

<p>To localize your promotional graphics, you can translate any embedded text, use

different imagery or presentation, or change your marketing approach to best address the needs

and add it to a localized version of the promotional graphic.</p>

<p>Because your localized graphic assets and videos are so important, you should get

started on creating them and localizing them as needed, well in advance of your target

started on creating them and localizing them well in advance of your target

publishing date. </p>

<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Localized promotional graphics and videos are supported

in the Developer Console Preview only.</p>

only in the new Developer Console design.</p>

<table>

<tr>

<ol>

<li>Visit the Google Play Developer Console at <a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>.

<li>Enter basic information about your <strong>developer identity</strong> &mdash; developer name, email address, and so on. You can modify this information later.</li>

<li>Read and accept the <strong>Developer Distribution Agreement</strong> 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,</li>

<li>Pay a <strong>$25 USD registration fee</strong> using Google Checkout. If you don't have a Google Checkout account, you can quickly set one up during the process.</li>

<li>Visit the Google Play Developer Console at <a

href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>.

<li>Enter basic information about your <strong>developer identity</strong> &mdash; developer

name, email address, and so on. You can modify this information later.</li>

<li>Read and accept the <strong>Developer Distribution Agreement</strong> 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,</li>

<li>Pay a <strong>$25 USD registration fee</strong> using Google Checkout. If you don't have

a Google Checkout account, you can quickly set one up during the process.</li>

</ol>

<p>When your registration is verified, you’ll be notified at the email address you specified during registration. </p>

<p>To set up a Merchant account from the Developer Console:</p>

<ol>

<li><strong>Sign in</strong> to your Google Play Developer Console at <a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>

<li>Click on the "<strong>Edit profile</strong>" link.

<li>Select "<strong>Setup a Merchant Account at Google Checkout</strong>".</li>

<li><strong>Sign in</strong> to your Google Play Developer Console at

<a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>

<li>Open <strong>Financial reports</strong> <img src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/console-reports.png"

  style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0"> on the side navigation.

<li>Click <strong>Setup a Merchant Account now</strong>.</li>

</ol>

<p>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.</p>

<p>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.</p>

<h3>Explore the Developer Console</h3>

<p>When your registration is verified, you can sign in to your Developer Console, which will be the home for your app publishing operations and tools on Google Play. </p>