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* commit 'e61116b9a1f2d92fbda3d23d35a3742d0661c2be': update dev console language for new site design. Language only; no screenshot changes. bug: 8032875 bug: 8033647 bug: 8033688
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@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Google Play Developer Console, without needing to update your app
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binary.</p>
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<p>Later, as you add features or address code issues, you can publish an updated
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binary at any time. Google Play makes the new version available immediately and
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binary at any time. Google Play makes the new version available almost immediately and
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notifies existing customers that an update is ready for download. To streamline
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the rollout across your customer base, Google Play also lets users accept
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automatic updates of your app, so that your updates are delivered and installed
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@ -14,24 +14,25 @@ you'll find in the Developer Console.</p>
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-home.png" style="width:600px;padding:4px;margin-bottom:0em;">
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</div>
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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span
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style="font-weight:500;">Developer Console home page</span>: Gives you a quick
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overview of your apps, lets you jump to stats, reviews, or product details, or
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style="font-weight:500;">All applications page</span>: Gives you a quick
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overview of your apps, lets you jump to stats, reviews, and product details, or
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upload a new app. </p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="profile">Your Developer Profile</h3>
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<h3 id="profile">Your Account Details</h3>
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<div style="width:408px;float:right;margin:1.5em;">
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<div style="width:410px;border:1px solid #DDD;">
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-profile.png" style="width:400px;padding:4px;margin-bottom:0em;">
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</div>
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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span
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style="font-weight:500;">Developer profile</span>: Specifies your developer
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identity and contact information, stores your developer key, and more.</p>
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style="font-weight:500;">Account details page</span>: Specifies your developer
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identity and contact information, accounts for app testing, and more.</p>
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</div>
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<p>Your developer profile identifies you to Google Play and to your customers.
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During registration you can provide information for your profile, but you can go
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During registration you must provide information for your profile, but you can go
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back at any time to edit the information and change your settings. </p>
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<p>Your developer profile contains:</p>
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@ -39,11 +40,11 @@ back at any time to edit the information and change your settings. </p>
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<li>Your developer name — the name you want to show users on your product
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details page and elsewhere on Google Play.
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<li>Your developer contact information — how Google can contact you if
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needed (this information isn't exposed to users.
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needed (this information isn't exposed to users).
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<li>Merchant information, in-app billing information.</li>
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<li>Your developer public key for licensing and In-app Billing.</li>
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</ul>
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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
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@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ owner can add <em>user accounts</em> and manage what parts of the Console they
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have access to. For example, an owner can grant users access to publishing and
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app configuration, but not access to financial reports. </p>
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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
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@ -65,15 +67,16 @@ sales. </p>
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-details.png" style="width:400px;padding:4px;margin-bottom:0em;">
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</div>
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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span
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style="font-weight:500;">Product details page</span>: Lets you upload your
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style="font-weight:500;">Store Listing page</span>: Lets you upload your
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graphic assets, description, support information, and other information to
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create the product details page for a specific app.</p>
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</div>
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<h3 id="details">Your product and listing details</h3>
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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
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called the <em>product details page</em>. Your product details page is the home
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called the <em>Store Listing page</em>. Your Store Listing page is the home
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for your app in Google Play — it's the page users see on their mobile
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phones or on the web when they want to learn about your app and download it.
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</p>
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@ -83,11 +86,12 @@ what's great about your app, and you can provide a localized description, add
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notes about the latest version, and more. You can update your store listing at
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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
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publish it when you're ready. The app is a <em>draft</em> until you publish it,
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at which time Google Play makes your product details page and app available to
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at which time Google Play makes your store listing and app available to
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users. You can unpublish the app at any time.</p>
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<h3 id="controls">Distribution Controls</h3>
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@ -99,6 +103,7 @@ want to target.</p>
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<p>You can also see the list of devices that your app is currently available to,
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based on any distribution rules declared in its manifest file.</p>
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<h3 id="profile">Selling and pricing your Products</h3>
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<p>The Developer Console gives you tools to set prices for your apps and in-app
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@ -115,25 +120,25 @@ download). </p>
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<li>If you publish your app as free, <span style="font-weight:500;">it must
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remain free</span>. Free apps can be downloaded by any users in Google
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Play.</li>
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<li>If you publish it as priced, you can change it to free, Priced apps can be
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purchased and downloaded only by users who have registered a forms of payment
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<li>If you publish it as priced, you can later change it to free. Priced apps can be
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purchased and downloaded only by users who have registered a form of payment
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in Google Play.</li>
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</ul>
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<p>In addition, you can sell in-app products and subscriptions in your app,
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whether it is free or priced. You can set prices separately for priced apps,
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whether the app is free or priced. You can set prices separately for priced apps,
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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
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Developer Console lets you set prices in a large number of different currencies.
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When users around the world visit your product details page, they see the price
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When users around the world visit your store listing, they see the price
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of your app in their own currency. For most countries, the price you set is the
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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
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capability that uses recent exchange rates to populate the prices in all
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supported currencies. You can change prices for apps and in-app products at any
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time, just by saving changes in the Develoer Console.</p>
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time, just by saving changes in the Developer Console.</p>
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<h3>In-app Billing</h3>
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@ -159,14 +164,14 @@ You can filter reviews in a number of ways to locate issues more easily
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and support your customers more effectively.</p>
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</div>
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<h3>User reviews and error reports</h3>
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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
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benefit of other users. The reviews are also extremely important to you, since
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they give you usability feedback, support requests, and important functionality
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issues direct from your customers. </p>
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<p>The Developer console also lets you see error reports, with stack trace and
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<p>The Developer Console also lets you see crash reports, with stack trace and
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other data, submitted automatically from Android devices, for debugging and
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improving your app.</p>
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@ -177,7 +182,8 @@ performance of your app. </p>
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<p>You can view installations of your app measured by unique users, as well as
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by unique devices. For user installations, you can view active installs, total
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installs, and daily installs and uninstalls. For devices, you can see active
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installs, daily installs and uninstalls, and metrics about the user reviews.
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For devices, you can see active
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installs as well as daily installs, uninstalls, and upgrades.</p>
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<p>You can zoom into the installation numbers along several dimensions,
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style="width:600px;padding:4px;margin-bottom:0em;">
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</div>
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<p class="image-caption" style="padding:.5em"><span style="font-weight:500;">App
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installation statistics page</span>: Shows you a variety of statistics about a
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statistics page</span>: Shows you a variety of statistics about a
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specific app's installation performance over time.</p>
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</div>
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@jd:body
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<div id="qv-wrapper"><div id="qv">
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<h2>Checklist:</h2>
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<h2>Checklist</h2>
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<ol>
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<li><a href="#process">1. Understand the publishing process</a></li>
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<li><a href="#policies">2. Understand Google Play policies</a></li>
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@ -399,14 +399,6 @@ attracts and engages users, so you should consider having a professional produce
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them for you. Screen shots and videos are also very important, because they show
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what your app looks like, how it's used or played, and what makes it different.</p>
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<div class="sidebox-wrapper">
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<div class="sidebox">
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<h3>Localize your promotional graphics and videos<span class="new"> new!</span></h3>
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<p>Google Play now lets you provide different promotional graphics for each
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language you support. Localizing your graphics helps you reach your global
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user base more effectively and is highly recommended.</p>
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</div>
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</div>
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<p>All of your graphic assets should be designed so that they are easy to see
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and highlight your app or brand in a colorful, interesting way. The assets
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should reference the same logo and icon as users will actually find in the All
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<p>To help you market your app more effectively to a global audience, Google
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Play lets you create localized versions of your promotional graphics,
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screenshots, and videos and upload them to the Developer Console. When a user
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visits your app's store listing, Google Play displays the promotional graphic
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and video that you've provided for the user's language.</p>
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visits your app's store listing, Google Play displays the promotional graphic,
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screenshots and video that you've provided for the user's language.</p>
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<p>To localize your promotional graphics, you can translate any embedded text, use
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different imagery or presentation, or change your marketing approach to best address the needs
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and add it to a localized version of the promotional graphic.</p>
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<p>Because your localized graphic assets and videos are so important, you should get
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started on creating them and localizing them as needed, well in advance of your target
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started on creating them and localizing them well in advance of your target
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publishing date. </p>
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<p class="note"><strong>Note:</strong> Localized promotional graphics and videos are supported
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in the Developer Console Preview only.</p>
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only in the new Developer Console design.</p>
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<table>
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<tr>
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<ol>
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<li>Visit the Google Play Developer Console at <a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>.
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<li>Enter basic information about your <strong>developer identity</strong> — developer name, email address, and so on. You can modify this information later.</li>
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<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>
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<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>
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<li>Visit the Google Play Developer Console at <a
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href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>.
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<li>Enter basic information about your <strong>developer identity</strong> — developer
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name, email address, and so on. You can modify this information later.</li>
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<li>Read and accept the <strong>Developer Distribution Agreement</strong> that applies to your
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country or region. Note that apps and store listings that you publish on Google Play must comply
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with the Developer Program Policies and US export law,</li>
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<li>Pay a <strong>$25 USD registration fee</strong> using Google Checkout. If you don't have
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a Google Checkout account, you can quickly set one up during the process.</li>
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</ol>
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<p>When your registration is verified, you’ll be notified at the email address you specified during registration. </p>
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<p>To set up a Merchant account from the Developer Console:</p>
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<ol>
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<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>
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<li>Click on the "<strong>Edit profile</strong>" link.
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<li>Select "<strong>Setup a Merchant Account at Google Checkout</strong>".</li>
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<li><strong>Sign in</strong> to your Google Play Developer Console at
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<a href="https://play.google.com/apps/publish/">https://play.google.com/apps/publish/</a>
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<li>Open <strong>Financial reports</strong> <img src="{@docRoot}images/distribute/console-reports.png"
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style="vertical-align:baseline;margin:0"> on the side navigation.
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<li>Click <strong>Setup a Merchant Account now</strong>.</li>
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</ol>
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<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>
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<p>This takes you to the Google Wallet site to sign up as a Merchant;
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you'll need information about your business available to complete this step.</p>
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<h3>Explore the Developer Console</h3>
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<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>
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