diff --git a/docs/html/distribute/essentials/essentials_toc.cs b/docs/html/distribute/essentials/essentials_toc.cs
index 072aa08146087..a78252db7843b 100644
--- a/docs/html/distribute/essentials/essentials_toc.cs
+++ b/docs/html/distribute/essentials/essentials_toc.cs
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     </div>
   </li>
   <li class="nav-section">
-    <div class="nav-section empty" style="font-weight:normal"><a href="<?cs var:toroot?>distribute/tools/promote/badges.html" zh-cn-lang="Google Play 徽章生成器">
+    <div class="nav-section empty" style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://play.google.com/intl/en_us/badges/" zh-cn-lang="Google Play 徽章生成器">
             <span class="en">Google Play Badges</span></a>
     </div>
   </li>
diff --git a/docs/html/distribute/tools/promote/badges.jd b/docs/html/distribute/tools/promote/badges.jd
deleted file mode 100644
index eb09333e05824..0000000000000
--- a/docs/html/distribute/tools/promote/badges.jd
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,362 +0,0 @@
-page.title=Google Play Badge Generator
-page.image=/images/gp-badges-set.png
-page.metaDescription=Build badges for your app in just a few clicks, or download hi-res badge assets localized for a variety of languages.
-meta.tags="disttools, promoting, deviceart, marketing, googleplay"
-page.tags="badge, google play"
-
-@jd:body
-
-<p itemprop="description">Google Play badges enable you to promote your apps with
-official branding in your online ads, promotional materials, or anywhere you want
-a link to your apps</p>
-
-<p>In the form below,
-input your app's package name or publisher name, choose the badge style,
-click <em>Build my badge</em>, then paste the HTML into your web content.</p>
-
-<p>If you're creating a promotional web page for your app, you should also use the
-<a href="{@docRoot}distribute/tools/promote/device-art.html">Device Art Generator</a>, which quickly
-wraps your screenshots in real device artwork.</p>
-
-<p>For guidelines when using the Google Play badge and other brand assets,
-see the <a href="{@docRoot}distribute/tools/promote/brand.html#brand-google_play">Brand
-Guidelines</a>.</p>
-
-<style type="text/css">
-
-form.button-form {
-  margin-top:2em;
-}
-
-/* the label and input elements are blocks that float left in order to
-   keep the left edgets of the input aligned, and IE 6/7 do not fully support "inline-block" */
-label.block {
-  display: block;
-  float: left;
-  width: 100px;
-  padding-right: 10px;
-}
-
-input.text {
-  display: block;
-  float: left;
-  width: 250px;
-}
-
-div.button-row {
-  white-space:nowrap;
-  min-height:80px;
-}
-
-div.button-row input {
-  vertical-align:middle;
-  margin:0 5px 0 0;
-}
-
-#jd-content div.button-row img {
-  margin: 0;
-  vertical-align:middle;
-}
-
-</style>
-
-<script type="text/javascript">
-
-// locales for which we have the 'app' badge
-var APP_LANGS = ['it','pt-br','pt-pt','nl','ko','ja','fr','es','es-419','en','de'];
-
-// variables for creating 'try it out' demo button
-var imagePath = "https://developer.android.com/images/brand/"
-var linkStart = "<a href=\"https://play.google.com/store/";
-var imageStart = "\">\n"
-        + "  <img alt=\"";
-  // leaves opening for the alt text value
-var imageSrc = "\"\n       src=\"" + imagePath;
-  // leaves opening for the image file name
-var imageEnd = ".png\" />\n</a>";
-
-// variables for creating code snippet
-var linkStartCode = "&lt;a href=\"https://play.google.com/store/";
-var imageStartCode = "\"&gt;\n"
-        + "  &lt;img alt=\"";
-  // leaves opening for the alt text value
-var imageSrcCode = "\"\n       src=\"" + imagePath;
-  // leaves opening for the image file name
-var imageEndCode = ".png\" />\n&lt;/a>";
-
-/** Generate the HTML snippet and demo based on form values */
-function buildButton(form) {
-  var lang = $('#locale option:selected').val();
-  var selectedValue = lang + $('form input[type=radio]:checked').val();
-  var altText = selectedValue.indexOf("generic") != -1 ? "Get it on Google Play" : "Android app on Google Play";
-
-  if (form["package"].value != "com.example.android") {
-    $("#preview").show();
-    var packageName = escapeHTML(form["package"].value);
-    $("#snippet").show().html(linkStartCode + "apps/details?id=" + packageName
-            + imageStartCode + altText + imageSrcCode
-            + selectedValue + imageEndCode);
-    $("#button-preview").html(linkStart + "apps/details?id=" + packageName
-            + imageStart + altText + imageSrc
-            + selectedValue + imageEnd);
-
-    // Send the event to Analytics
-    ga('send', 'event', 'Distribute', 'Create Google Play Badge', 'Package ' + selectedValue);
-  } else if (form["publisher"].value != "Example, Inc.") {
-    $("#preview").show();
-    var publisherName = escapeHTML(form["publisher"].value);
-    $("#snippet").show().html(linkStartCode + "search?q=pub:" + publisherName
-            + imageStartCode + altText + imageSrcCode
-            + selectedValue + imageEndCode);
-    $("#button-preview").html(linkStart + "search?q=pub:" + publisherName
-            + imageStart + altText + imageSrc
-            + selectedValue + imageEnd);
-
-    // Send the event to Analytics
-    ga('send', 'event', 'Distribute', 'Create Google Play Badge', 'Publisher ' + selectedValue);
-  } else {
-    alert("Please enter your package name or publisher name");
-  }
-  return false;
-}
-
-/** Listen for Enter key */
-function onTextEntered(event, form, me) {
-  // 13 = enter
-  if (event.keyCode == 13) {
-    buildButton(form);
-  }
-}
-
-/** When input is focused, remove example text and disable other input */
-function onInputFocus(object, example) {
-  if (object.value == example) {
-    $(object).val('').css({'color' : '#000'});
-  }
-  $('input[type="text"]:not(input[name='+object.name+'])',
-          object.parentNode).attr('disabled','true');
-  $('#'+object.name+'-clear').show();
-}
-
-/** When input is blured, restore example text if appropriate and enable other input */
-function onInputBlur(object, example) {
-  if (object.value.length < 1) {
-    $(object).attr('value',example).css({'color':'#ccc'});
-    $('input[type="text"]', object.parentNode).removeAttr('disabled');
-    $('#'+object.name+'-clear').hide();
-  }
-}
-
-/** Clear the form to start over */
-function clearLabel(id, example) {
-  $("#preview").hide();
-  $('#'+id+'').html('').attr('value',example).css({'color':'#ccc'});
-  $('input[type="text"]', $('#'+id+'').parent()).removeAttr('disabled');
-  $('#'+id+'-clear').hide();
-  return false;
-}
-
-/** Switch the badge urls for selected language */
-function changeBadgeLang() {
-  var lang = $('#locale option:selected').val();
-
-  // check if we have the 'app' badge for this lang and show notice if not
-  $("div.button-row.error").remove();  // remove any existing instance of error message
-  if ($.inArray(lang,APP_LANGS) == -1) {
-    $("div.button-row.app").hide();
-    $("div.button-row.app").after('<div class="button-row error"><p class="note" style="margin:1em 0 -1em">'
-        + 'Sorry, we currently don\'t have the '
-        + '<em>Android app on Google Play</em> badge translated for '
-        + $("select#locale option[value="+lang+"]").attr("title")
-        + '.<br>Please check back later or instead use the <em>Get it on Google Play</em> badge below.'
-        + '</p></div>');
-  } else {
-    $("div.button-row.app").show(); // show the 'app' badge row
-  }
-
-  $('.button-row img').each(function() {
-    var id = $(this).parent().attr('for');
-    var imgName = lang + $('input#'+id).attr('value') + '.png';
-    var lastSlash = $(this).attr('src').lastIndexOf('/');
-    var imgPath = $(this).attr('src').substring(0, lastSlash+1);
-    $(this).attr('src', imgPath + imgName);
-  });
-}
-
-/** When the doc is ready, find the inputs and color the input grey if the value is the example
-    text. This is necessary to handle back-navigation, which can auto-fill the form with previous
-    values (and text should not be grey) */
-$(document).ready(function() {
-  $(".button-form input.text").each(function(index) {
-    if ($(this).val() == $(this).attr("default")) {
-      $(this).css("color","#ccc");
-    } else {
-      /* This is necessary to handle back-navigation to the page after form was filled */
-      $('input[type="text"]:not(input[name='+this.name+'])',
-              this.parentNode).attr('disabled','true');
-      $('#'+this.name+'-clear').show();
-    }
-  });
-});
-
-</script>
-
-<form class="button-form">
-  <label class="block" for="locale">Language:</label>
-  <select id="locale" style="display:block;float:left;margin:0"
-          onchange="changeBadgeLang()">
-    <option title="Afrikaans"
-            value="af">Afrikaans</option>
-    <option title="Arabic"
-            value="ar">العربية</option>
-    <option title="Belarusian"
-            value="be">Беларуская</option>
-    <option title="Bulgarian"
-            value="bg">Български</option>
-    <option title="Catalan"
-            value="ca">Català</option>
-    <option title="Chinese (China)"
-            value="zh-cn">中文 (中国)</option>
-    <option title="Chinese (Hong Kong)"
-            value="zh-hk">中文（香港）</option>
-    <option title="Chinese (Taiwan)"
-            value="zh-tw">中文 (台灣)</option>
-    <option title="Croatian"
-            value="hr">Hrvatski</option>
-    <option title="Czech"
-            value="cs">Česky</option>
-    <option title="Danish"
-            value="da">Dansk</option>
-    <option title="Dutch"
-            value="nl">Nederlands</option>
-    <option title="Estonian"
-            value="et">Eesti</option>
-    <option title="Farsi - Persian"
-            value="fa">فارسی</option>
-    <option title="Filipino"
-            value="fil">Tagalog</option>
-    <option title="Finnish"
-            value="fi">Suomi</option>
-    <option title="French"
-            value="fr">Français</option>
-    <option title="German"
-            value="de">Deutsch</option>
-    <option title="Greek"
-            value="el">Ελληνικά</option>
-    <option title="English"
-            value="en" selected="true">English</option>
-<!--
-    <option title="Hebrew"
-            value="iw-he">עברית</option>
--->
-    <option title="Hungarian"
-            value="hu">Magyar</option>
-    <option title="Indonesian"
-            value="id-in">Bahasa Indonesia</option>
-    <option title="Italian"
-            value="it">Italiano</option>
-    <option title="Japanese"
-            value="ja">日本語</option>
-    <option title="Korean"
-            value="ko">한국어</option>
-    <option title="Latvian"
-            value="lv">Latviešu</option>
-    <option title="Lithuanian"
-            value="lt">Lietuviškai</option>
-    <option title="Malay"
-            value="ms">Bahasa Melayu</option>
-    <option title="Norwegian"
-            value="no">Norsk (bokmål)‎</option>
-    <option title="Polish"
-            value="pl">Polski</option>
-    <option title="Portuguese (Brazil)"
-            value="pt-br">Português (Brasil)</option>
-    <option title="Portuguese (Portugal)"
-            value="pt-pt">Português (Portugal)</option>
-    <option title="Romanian"
-            value="ro">Română</option>
-    <option title="Russian"
-            value="ru">Русский</option>
-    <option title="Serbian"
-            value="sr">Српски / srpski</option>
-    <option title="Slovak"
-            value="sk">Slovenčina</option>
-    <option title="Slovenian"
-            value="sl">Slovenščina</option>
-    <option title="Spanish (Spain)"
-            value="es">Español (España)</option>
-    <option title="Spanish (Latin America)"
-            value="es-419">Español (Latinoamérica)</option>
-    <option title="Swedish"
-            value="sv">Svenska</option>
-    <option title="Swahili"
-            value="sw">Kiswahili</option>
-    <option title="Thai"
-            value="th">ไทย</option>
-    <option title="Turkish"
-            value="tr">Türkçe</option>
-    <option title="Ukrainian"
-            value="uk">Українська</option>
-    <option title="Vietnamese"
-            value="vi">Tiếng Việt</option>
-    <option title="Zulu"
-            value="zu">isiZulu</option>
-  </select>
-  <p style="clear:both;margin:0">&nbsp;</p>
-  <label class="block" for="package" style="clear:left">Package name:</label>
-  <input class="text" type="text" id="package" name="package"
-         value="com.example.android"
-         default="com.example.android"
-         onfocus="onInputFocus(this, 'com.example.android')"
-         onblur="onInputBlur(this, 'com.example.android')"
-         onkeyup="return onTextEntered(event, this.parentNode, this)"/>&nbsp;
-         <a id="package-clear" style="display:none" href="#"
-            onclick="return clearLabel('package','com.example.android');">clear</a>
-  <p style="clear:both;margin:0">&nbsp;<em>or</em></p>
-  <label class="block" style="margin-top:5px" for="publisher">Publisher&nbsp;name:</label>
-  <input class="text" type="text" id="publisher" name="publisher"
-         value="Example, Inc."
-         default="Example, Inc."
-         onfocus="onInputFocus(this, 'Example, Inc.')"
-         onblur="onInputBlur(this, 'Example, Inc.')"
-         onkeyup="return onTextEntered(event, this.parentNode, this)"/>&nbsp;
-         <a id="publisher-clear" style="display:none" href="#"
-            onclick="return clearLabel('publisher','Example, Inc.');">clear</a>
-         <br/><br/>
-
-
-<div class="button-row app">
-  <input type="radio" name="buttonStyle" value="_app_rgb_wo_45" id="ws" />
-    <label for="ws"><img src="{@docRoot}images/brand/en_app_rgb_wo_45.png"
-alt="Android app on Google Play (small)" /></label>
-    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-  <input type="radio" name="buttonStyle" value="_app_rgb_wo_60" id="wm" />
-    <label for="wm"><img src="{@docRoot}images/brand/en_app_rgb_wo_60.png"
-alt="Android app on Google Play (large)" /></label>
-</div>
-
-<div class="button-row">
-  <input type="radio" name="buttonStyle" value="_generic_rgb_wo_45" id="ns" checked="checked" />
-    <label for="ns"><img src="{@docRoot}images/brand/en_generic_rgb_wo_45.png"
-alt="Get it on Google Play (small)" /></label>
-    &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-  <input type="radio" name="buttonStyle" value="_generic_rgb_wo_60" id="nm" />
-    <label for="nm"><img src="{@docRoot}images/brand/en_generic_rgb_wo_60.png"
-alt="Get it on Google Play (large)" /></label>
-</div>
-
-  <input class="button" onclick="return buildButton(this.parentNode);"
-    type="button" value="Build my badge" style="padding:10px" />
-  <br/>
-</form>
-
-<div id="preview" style="display:none">
-  <p>Copy and paste this HTML into your web site:</p>
-  <textarea id="snippet" cols="100" rows="5" onclick="this.select()"
-style="font-family:monospace;background-color:#efefef;padding:5px;display:none;margin-bottom:1em">
-  </textarea >
-
-<p>Test your badge:</p>
-<div id="button-preview" style="margin-top:1em"></div>
-</div>
-