Google offers a variety of services that help you build new revenue streams, enhance your app's capabilities, manage distribution and payloads, and track usage and installs. Many of the services use static libraries that you download through the Android SDK Manager and build into your app. Others are configurable directly from Google Play Android Developer Console.
- -The sections below highlight some of the Google Services and link you to more information about how to use them in your Android app.
- - -+ Google offers a variety of services that help you build new revenue streams, enhance your app's + capabilities, manage distribution and payloads, and track usage and installs. + The sections below highlight some of the services offered by Google and link you to more information about + how to use them in your Android app. +
++ There are many ways to monetize your Android app, such as with ad impressions or In-App billing. If you + choose to charge a price to download your app, Android also provides the ability to check + for valid application licenses to protect your revenue. Because different apps require + different strategies, you can pick which ones are best for your app. +
+Keep your users engaged by offering in-app purchases and subscriptions directly in your app. -
- Learn more » ++ Generate revenue by displaying ads in your app with multiple ad networks. +
Learn more »Generate more revenue from your app by - displaying ads from multiple ad networks.
- Learn more » ++ Engage users by offering features such as new content or virtual goods directly in your app. +
Learn more »Protect your revenue streams and integrate policies for usage into your app.
- Learn more » +Protect your revenue streams and integrate policies for usage into your a +pp. +
Learn more »+ Android and Google technologies work together to provide your users with compelling interactions + with technologies such as Maps and Google+. +
+Make sure your app gets to the right users by -declaring the hardware and software features needed by your app.
-Learn more » -Distribute different APKs based on a variety of properties such as platform version, screen size, and GLES texture compression support.
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+ + Leverage Google products in your app with an easy to use authentication flow for your users. +
Learn more » +Take load off of your servers and utilize APK expansion files -to deliver up to 4 GB of assets for your Android app, free.
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+ + Notify your apps of important events with messages that are lightweight and battery-saving. +
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+ + The Google Maps library for Android brings powerful mapping capabilities to your app. +
Learn more + » ++ Google Play allows you to manage your app distribution with features that let you control which users + can download your app as well as deliver separate versions of your app based on certain + characteristics like platform version. +
+Notify your apps of events with push messages that are lightweight - and battery-saving.
- Learn more » ++ Make sure your app gets to the right users by filtering on a wide range of characteristics + such as platform versions and hardware features. +
Learn more » ++ Distribute different APKs based on a variety of properties such as platform version, screen + size, and GLES texture compression support. +
Learn more » ++ Tap into Google's content delivery services by serving up to 4GB of assets for free. Provide + users with high-fidelity graphics, media files, or other large assets that are required by + your app. +
Learn more » +The Google Maps library for Android lets you add powerful mapping and geo-location capabilities to your app.
- Learn more » -Google Analytics gives you powerful insights into how users find your apps
- and how they use them.
Start integrating analytics to measure
- your app's success.
+ Google Analytics let you find out how users find your apps and how they use them. Start + integrating analytics to measure your app's success. +
Learn more +» diff --git a/docs/html/guide/google/play/index.jd b/docs/html/guide/google/play/index.jd deleted file mode 100644 index b11bcdca8001c..0000000000000 --- a/docs/html/guide/google/play/index.jd +++ /dev/null @@ -1,16 +0,0 @@ -page.title=Google Play APIs -page.landing=1 -page.landing.intro=When you ditribute your Android app using Google Play you have the opportunity to enhance your app's capabilities with services such as in-app billing and control your app distribution with advanced device filtering. -@jd:body - - -Google Play services is a platform that is delivered through the Google Play Store that + offers integration with Google products, such as Google+, into Android apps. + The Google Play services framework consists of a services component + that runs on the device and a thin client library that you package with your app.
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