02GEEK: Google Play | Creating a Google Play Account

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Creating a Google Play Account

We just jump right into the water continuing from course 3 where we built out first mobile android application. In this video we jump right into the landing page of the Google play for developers.There is a good chance that you already have a Google account but we strongly recommend that if you have a company don't use your private email and instead of that use your cooperate account when starting up your Google play account. Not a bad idea when your selling something as a company to make it really clear that its not a personal engagement but actually a cooperate one (legal legal legal).

We picked the Google play store as our first example as its the cheapest while IOS and Amazon are a lot higher currently then the one time fee Google requests.

Legal stuff are important, not fun to read but really important. Validate you go through that before you build out your account. If you are planning on selling things you will need a merchant account as well but in our case as this application will be free we will skip that step.

Creating a Google Play Account

We picked the google play store as our first example as its the cheapest while IOS and Amazon are a lot higher currently then the one time fee Google requests.

Setting up a Google Profile

Once we are done paying our credit card bill we are ready to start filling up our developer information. In this video we talk a bit about it and fill up the form.

Finalizing our application to be released onto the Google Play Storee

We set up our real certificate and change the configurations of our application to publish out as a Device release instead of a Debug release.

It's time to upload the APK file

So we are going to go back into the browser and move into the publish an Android menu option

Setting up a Google group or Google Plus hangout

etting up a Google group or Google Plus hangout to enable alpha/beta testers.

The Google Group

So in the last video I created a new Google group and in this one I'll continue and start managing the group and start inviting members into this group.

Integrating the Google group into our alpha group

how to add a user groups for our Mobile Android AIR application.

Filling up the store listing information

We start by building our listing in English but you can add it into any language and multiple languages as well. We will fill up our basic copy together. By the end of this video we will concur all th

Configuring the price and distribution

We configure together our free application and as our application is multi lingual we can hit many markets.

We are live!

That's almost it. Let's click on that publish button!

We are really live!

Last video we kinda where live but not really so in this video we will show you the final steps involved in getting your users actually into your application.

Final words and wrapping up

Taking last few peaks at our application and say goodbye. Until our next title thanks for watching. Don't forget to peak at our catalog to find other titles that might trigger your interest.