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simbatish
simbatish

Reputation: 123

Android app - publish but not make it accessible through android market search

Here's the scenario i am trying to achieve:

  1. Publish/have an app in the Android app store
  2. However - i do not want it to be searchable through the android market search, etc.
  3. The only way people can access the app is if i give them an explicit link to download

Is above possible? If so - how? All FAQs/instrucitons i have seen publish & make it searchable for the whole world - but i want it only accessible through #3 above.

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 612

Answers (4)

zarej
zarej

Reputation: 933

Try this site https://www.push-link.com/, you can upload apk on your private account and only can be accessible thorough automatic generated link and QR code. This service contains user notification on new versions and bug reports.

Upvotes: 2

Yoel Gluschnaider
Yoel Gluschnaider

Reputation: 1814

Two things that are problematic with the link to an APK approach:

  1. Some of the devices out there (I m only aware of the Motorola Atrix) don't have the "Unkown Sources" option, meaning that this won't work on them.
  2. You loose the ability to auto update the app if you want.

I would recommend adding a login process where only your users will have access to the actual application. This way, you still have the Market advantages and only those people can activate the application. The main disadvantage is that the application will be open to search in the Market, but as far as I know, this won't be a problem since people will immediately uninstall it since they won't be able to activate it.

Upvotes: 1

Kenton Price
Kenton Price

Reputation: 5229

Don't do this. Just publish the APK to your own website, then give the users the URL to the APK, they can download and install it directly. The only thing they'll need to do is ensure that Menu-Settings-Applications-Unknown sources is ticked.

Upvotes: 0

Rohit Mandiwal
Rohit Mandiwal

Reputation: 10462

In your case, what I do is, I dont upload the application to the Market and distribute it from my server.

I mean this is simple, sweet and it also saves my $25 for the market account...

Upvotes: 0

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