Android Play store app details (application submission details)

Android application play store submission details - 

A) PRODUCT DETAILS

1) Title - 30 characters Max.

2) Short description - 80 characters max.

3) Full description- 4000 characters max.

B) GRAPHIC ASSETS

4) Screenshots - Phone - At least 2 screenshots are required overall. Max 8 screenshots per type.

5) *Hi-res icon 

     512 x 512 PNG

6) *Feature Graphic

    1024 w x 500 h

    JPG or PNG (no alpha)

7) Promo Graphic (optional)

    180 w x 120 h

8) Promo video (optional)

C) CATEGORIZATION

A)   Application type - Application

B)   Category -   (Select one category for your android app)

1) Books & Reference 

2) Bussines 

3) Comics 

4) Communication 

5) Education 

6) Entertainment 

7) Finance 

8) Health & Fitness 

9) Libraries & Demo 

10) Lifestyle 

11) Media & Video     

12) Medical 

13) Music & Audio 

14) News & Magazines

  15) Personalization

16) Photography 

17) Productivity

18) Shopping 

19) Social 

20) Sports 

21) Tools 

22) Transportation

23) Travel & Local 

24) Weather

C) Content rating  -  

     1)Low Maturity.

       2) medium Maturity.

     3) High Maturity.

     4) Everyone.

D) CONTACT DETAILS 

12) website - optional

13) email - compulsory (Please provide an email address where you may be contacted. This address will be publicly displayed with your app.)

14) Phone - opional

E) PRIVACY POLICY 

PRIVACY POLICY - optional

Please check content rating policy tab.

The Google Play content rating system for apps and games is designed to deliver reputable, locally relevant ratings to users around the world. The rating system includes official ratings from the International Age Rating Coalition (IARC) and its participating bodies.

Developer responsibilities:

• Complete the content rating questionnaire for each new app submitted to Developer Console, for all existing apps that are active on Google Play, and for all app updates where there has been a change to app content or features that would affect the responses to the questionnaire.
• Provide accurate responses to the content rating questionnaire. Misrepresentation of your app's content may result in removal or suspension.

Your rating will be used to:

• Inform consumers about the age appropriateness of your app.
• Block or filter your content in certain territories or to specific users where legally required.
• Evaluate your app's eligibility for special developer programs.

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Android SDK Installation Guide.

by Umesh U. Chougule on Feb 21st 2013 ,12:00 PM

This guide will describe you how to install the Google's Android Software Development Kit (SDK) and set up your Development Environments.

- First you'll need to download the Android SDK tools -
Link - 1) http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html   or
           2) http://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/index.html


System Requirements-
To start with Android development you'll of course need a suitable Environment.

Currently following operating systems are supported :

• Mac OS X 10.4 Later.
• Linux (tested on Ubuntu).
• Windows XP and Vista.  

You will also need Suitable development Environment :

•  Eclipse IDE.
• Android development Tools.

other Development Environments :

•  JDK 5 or JDK 6
• Apache Ant (you can say it is optional)

Installing The Android SDK - 

First you will need to download the Android SDK .zip archive, once downloaded find a suitable installation location on your machine and extract the zipped files.

You can download from Here On clicking "DOWNLOAD FOR OTHER PLATFORMS"-

                http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

    Download ADT Bundle and SDK tools Package as per your Development Environment - 

System Set Up -

1) First Install JDK on your windows XP.

Step 1. Installing Eclipse IDE on computer.

    1.    First you can download eclipse.
    2.    Then extract it to you preferred directory.
    3.    After that you can go to installed directory then run eclipse.exe

 If you choose to use the Eclipse IDE as your Android development environment you will have the opportunity to install and run a plug-in called Android Development Tools. ADT comes with a variety of powerful tools and extensions that will make creating, running and debugging your Android applications much easier and faster.

Step 2. Installing Android SDK starter package on computer.

First you can download SDK form above link. The recommended one is marked by red in following screen shot.


Then run this installer, it will install Android SDK for you.
After you install SDK go to the installed directory then run SDK Manager.exe

 Then you can see above window this is Android SDK and AVD Manager.

 Step 3. Installing ADT plugin for Eclipse.

    1.    First Start the Eclipse IDE that you installed.
    2.    Then go to Help >  Install New Software... and click Add.. button in right-top.It will appear following window.



then add following detail and click OK button
Name       :      As you wish (exp:-ADT)
Location  :      https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
Then it shows Available Software dialog,then select Developer Tools and click Next button.
Next you can see software package to be installed.so click Next button
Then read license agreements and accept it then click Finish.

After complete installation restart Eclipse IDE.

Then go to Windows > Preferences.. to open preferences panel.
In left panel click Android
For the  SDK Location in the panel, locate your SDK directory using Browse... button.
Finaly Click on Apply,then OK


After you install ADT plugin for Eclipse the following toolbar appear on Eclipse IDE.

               

The highlighted icon is use for lunching Android SDK and AVD Manager.


Creating A New Android Project
The Android Development Tools plugins  provides a Wizard for setting up new Projects which will allow us to create new Eclipse projects relatively quickly for either new or existing code.

Select File > New > Project
    1.    Select Android > Android Project, and press Next
    2.    Select the contents for the project:

    •    Select Create new project in workspace to start a project for new code.
Enter the project name, the base package name, the name of a single Activity class to create as a stub .java file, and a name to use for your application.

    •    Select Create project from existing source to start a project from existing code. Use this option if you want to build and run any of the sample applications included with the SDK.
The sample applications are located in the samples/ directory in the SDK. Browse to the directory containing the existing source code and click OK.
 If the directory contains a valid Android manifest file, the ADT plugin fills in the package, activity, and application names for you.
Press Finish.

The Above steps will create Android development on your machine and you can easily startto Create your Own  Android Application.


Thanks,