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Saurabh
Saurabh

Reputation: 464

How to publish an app privately on Google Play Store?

I want to publish an app privately, that means app should not showing when user search on Google Play Store.

I want to share app link to user and then user will be download the app on Google Play Store.

Upvotes: 13

Views: 20116

Answers (2)

Nick Fortescue
Nick Fortescue

Reputation: 13842

There are three options.

  • The first option is to integrate with the EMM API, sometimes called "Managed Play". This is designed for companies to publish private apps to their users.
  • If you use Managed Play you can also publish Self-hosted private apps.
  • Another option is to use a closed testing track. This is sometimes called Alpha or Beta testing, and that is what it is designed for - not for publishing private apps. An app which is only published on a closed track is not visible in search on the Play store. And testing users can't rate or review it. However since it is designed for testing users have to opt-in. You probably don't want this option, as it isn't designed for publishing private apps.

The first option is probably best, but it depends on the reason you want to do a private app.

Upvotes: 10

Mouad Brody
Mouad Brody

Reputation: 27

Publish it as BETA release, it won't be shown on Google play.

Upvotes: -6

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