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page.title=The Developer Console
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@jd:body
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<p>Once you've <a
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href="{@docRoot}distribute/googleplay/publish/register.html">registered</a> and
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received verification by email, you can sign in to your Google Play Android
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Developer Console, which will be the home for your app publishing operations and
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tools on Google Play. This sections below introduce a few of the key areas
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you'll find in the Developer Console.</p>
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<div style="width:610px;margin-left:">
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<div style="width:610px;border:1px solid #DDD;">
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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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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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<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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</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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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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<ul>
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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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<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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access different parts of your Developer Console. The first account registered
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is the <em>account owner</em>, with full access to all parts of the Console. The
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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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Checkout Merchant account to your developer profile. Google Play uses the linked
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Checkout account for financial and tax identification and monthly payouts of
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sales. </p>
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<div style="width:410px;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-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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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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<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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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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<p>You can upload custom brand assets, screen shots, and videos to highlight
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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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users. You can unpublish the app at any time.</p>
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<h3 id="controls">Distribution Controls</h3>
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<p>In the Developer Console you can manage what countries and territories the
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app is distributed to and, for some countries, you can choose what carriers you
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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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products. Your app can either be free to download or priced (charged before
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download). </p>
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<div class="sidebox-wrapper">
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<div class="sidebox">
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<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>
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</div>
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</div>
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<ul>
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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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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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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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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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<h3>In-app Billing</h3>
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<div class="sidebox-wrapper">
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<div class="sidebox">
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<h2>In-app Billing</h2>
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<p>For details on how to implement In-app Billing, see the
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<a href="{@docRoot}guide/google/play/billing/index.html">In-app Billing</span></a>
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developer documentation.</p></div></div>
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<p><a href="{@docRoot}guide/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>
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<p>From the Developer Console you can create product lists for in-app
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products and subscriptions, set prices, and publish.</p>
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<div style="width:410px;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-reviews.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 style="font-weight:500;">User
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reviews page</span>: Gives you access to user reviews for a specific app.
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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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<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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other data, submitted automatically from Android devices, for debugging and
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improving your app.</p>
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<h3>App statistics</h3>
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<p>The Developer Console gives you detailed statistics on the install
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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 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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including Android platform version, device, country, language, app version, and
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carrier (mobile operator). You can see the installation data for each dimension
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on a timeline charts.</p>
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<p>At a glance, these charts highlight your app’s installation peaks and
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longer-term trends, which you can correlate to promotions, app improvements, or
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other factors. You can even focus in on data inside a dimension by adding
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specific points (such as individual platform versions or languages) to the
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timeline.</p>
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<div style="width:610px;margin:1.5em;margin-left:0">
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<div style="width:610px;border:1px solid #DDD;">
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<img src="{@docRoot}images/gp-dc-stats.png"
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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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specific app's installation performance over time.</p>
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</div>
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