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Start on Android

Программа Start on Android позволяет разработчикам тестировать и дорабатывать приложения перед запуском в Google Play. Участники программы получают ряд бонусов: помощь команды специалистов, полезные рекомендации, техническую поддержку и не только.

Преимущества программы

Выделенная служба поддержки

Мы поддержим вас на всех этапах разработки, запуска и продвижения продукта. Участники программы могут также консультироваться со специалистами Google Play по вопросам оптимизации онбординга, принципов Material Design, вовлечения пользователей и не только.

Отзывы пользователей в рамках программы раннего доступа

Программа раннего доступа позволяет разработчикам получать конфиденциальные честные отзывы от заинтересованных пользователей. Это помогает улучшить работу приложения перед тем, как оно будет представлено широкой аудитории.

Возможности для продвижения

Получите больше возможностей для продвижения в Google Play: это поможет привлечь внимание к вашему приложению на этапе открытого бета-тестирования и запуска.

Доступ к ресурсам Google

Мы помогаем разработчикам стать участниками других программ Google для стартапов и МСП, в рамках которых можно получать консультации по привлечению пользователей, ранний доступ к новым продуктам Google и не только.

Отзывы наших партнеров

«Служба поддержки Start on Android постоянно помогала нам, когда мы разрабатывали наше приложение. Ценные отзывы о нашем продукте и рекомендации по бета-тестированию во многом определили успех запуска. За время открытого бета-тестирования количество новых пользователей нашего приложения увеличилось на 500 %, поэтому к моменту запуска мы были уверены в том, что всё получится».
Эндрю Вайзер, старший менеджер по продукту, компания Paperless Post

«Программа Start on Android играет важную роль в запуске игр FunCraft. Размещение игры в рекомендациях позволяет увеличить количество установок в 8–10 раз во время тестирования в фокус-группах и запуска. Команда программы Start on Android всегда открыта к диалогу и оказывает нам неоценимую поддержку на пути к цели. Мы очень довольны результатами и надеемся на дальнейшее сотрудничество».
Майкл Мартинес, основатель и генеральный директор компании FunCraft Games

«Открытое бета-тестирование – отличная возможность улучшить продукт и оптимизировать маркетинговую стратегию. Благодаря программе Start on Android за неделю размещения в рекомендациях количество не зависящих от рекламы установок наших игр возрастает не менее чем на 40 %. Иногда этот показатель доходит до 65 %. Это потрясающий результат!»
Майкл Гордон, основатель и президент компании Iron Horse Games

Полезные материалы для запуска

Скоро мы подробнее расскажем о том, как и когда можно подать заявку на участие в программе. А пока предлагаем подборку полезных ресурсов с рекомендациями по запуску приложений в Google Play.

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Get Started with Play Games Services for Android

Welcome to Android game development with the Google Play games services!

The Play Games SDK provides cross-platform Google Play games services that lets you easily integrate popular gaming features such as achievements, leaderboards, and Saved Games in your tablet and mobile games.

This training will guide you to install a sample game application for Android and quickly get started to create your own Android game. The Type-a-Number Challenge sample app demonstrates how you can integrate achievements and leaderboards into your game.

Before you begin

To prepare your app, complete the steps in the following sections.

App prerequisites

Make sure that your app’s build file uses the following values:

• A minSdkVersion of 19 of higher
• A compileSdkVersion of 28 or higher

Set up your game in Google Play Console

The Google Play Console is where you manage Google Play games services for your game, and configure metadata for authorizing and authenticating your game. For more information, see Setting Up Google Play Games Services.

Configure your app

In your project-level build.gradle file, include Google’s Maven repository and Maven central repository in both your buildscript and allprojects sections:

Add the Google Play services dependency for the Play Games SDK to your module’s Gradle build file, which is commonly app/build.gradle :

Sample App Guide

This training will guide you to install a sample game app for Android and quickly get started to create your own Android game. The Type-a-Number Challenge sample app demonstrates how you can integrate achievements and leaderboards into your game.

Step 1: Download the sample app

For this developer guide, you will need to download the Type-a-Number Challenge sample Android application.

To download and set up the sample application in Android Studio:

1. Download the Android samples from the samples download page.
2. Import the android-basic-samples project. This project includes TypeANumber and other Android game samples. To do this in Android Studio:
   1. Click File >Import Project.
   2. Browse to the directory where you downloaded android-basic-samples on your development machine. Select the file android-basic-samples/build.gradle and click OK.
3. In the TypeANumber module, open AndroidManifest.xml and change the package name from com.google.example.games.tanc to a different package name of your own. The new package name must not start with com.google , com.example , or com.android .

Step 2: Set up the game in the Google Play Console

The Google Play Console is where you manage Google Play games services for your game, and configure metadata for authorizing and authenticating your game.

To set up the sample game in the Google Play Console:

1. Point your web browser to the Google Play Console, and sign in. If you haven’t registered for the Google Play Console before, you will be prompted to do so.
2. Follow these instructions to add your game to the Google Play Console.
   1. When asked if you use Google APIs in your app, select I don’t use any Google APIs in my game yet.
   2. For the purpose of this developer guide, you can fill up the form with your own game details. For convenience, you can use the placeholder icons and screenshots provided in the Downloads page.
3. Follow these instructions to generate an OAuth 2.0 client ID for your Android app.
   1. When linking your Android app, make sure to specify the exact package name you used previously when renaming the sample package.
   2. You can use the Generate Signed APK Wizard in Android Studio to generate a new keystore and signed certificate if you don’t have one already. To learn how to run the Generate Signed APK Wizard, see Signing Your App in Android Studio.
4. Make sure to record the following information for later:
   1. Your application ID: This is a string consisting only of digits (typically 12 or more), at the beginning of your client ID.
   2. Your signing certificate: Note which certificate you used when setting up your API access (the certificate whose SHA1 fingerprint you provided). You should use the same certificate to sign your app when testing or releasing your app.
5. Configure achievements for Type-a-Number Challenge:
   1. Select the Achievements tab in the Google Play Console.
   2. Add the following sample achievements:
      

      Name	Description	Special Instructions
      Prime	Get a score that’s a prime number.	None
      Humble	Request a score of 0.	None
      Don’t get cocky, kid	Request a score of 9999 in either mode.	None
      OMG U R TEH UBER LEET!	Receive a score of 1337.	Make this a hidden achievement.
      Bored	Play the game 10 times.	Make this an an incremental achievement with 10 steps to unlock.
      Really Really Bored	Play the game 100 times.	Make this an an incremental achievement with 100 steps to unlock.

   3. Record the IDs (long alphanumeric strings) for each achievement that you created.
   4. Configure achievements that are appropriate for your game. To learn more, see the concepts behind achievements and how to implement achievements in Android.
6. Configure the leaderboards for Type-a-Number Challenge:
   1. Select the Leaderboards tab in the Google Play Console.
   2. Add two sample leaderboards: one named “Easy High Scores” and another named “Hard High Scores”. Both leaderboards should use Integer score formatting with 0 decimal places, and an ordering type of Larger is better.
   3. Record the IDs (long alphanumeric strings) for each leaderboard you created.
   4. Configure leaderboards that are appropriate for your game. To learn more, see the concepts behind leaderboards and how to implement leaderboards in Android.
7. Add test accounts for your game. This step is needed only for apps that have not yet been published in the Google Play Console. Before the app is published, only the test accounts listed in the Google Play Console can log in. However, once an application is published, everyone is allowed to log in.

Warning: If you try to make Play Games SDK calls for an unpublished game by using an account that’s not listed as a test account, the Google Play games services will behave as if the game did not exist and you’ll get back the ConnectionResult.SIGN_IN_REQUIRED return code. If you attempt to launch ConnectionResult.startResolutionForResult() , you’ll get back GamesActivityResultCodes.RESULT_SIGN_IN_FAILED .

Step 3: Modify your code

To run the game, you need to configure the application ID as a resource in your Android project. You will also need to add games metadata in the AndroidManifest.xml .

1. Open res/values/ids.xml and replace the placeholder IDs. If you are creating an Android game from scratch, you will need to create this file first.
   1. Specify your application ID in the app_id resource.
   2. Specify each achievement ID that you created earlier in the corresponding achievement_* resource.
   3. Specify each leaderboard ID that you created earlier in the corresponding leaderboard_* resource.
2. Open AndroidManifest.xml and enter your package name in the package attribute of the manifest > element. If you are creating an Android game from scratch, make sure that you also add the following code inside the application > element:

Step 4: Test your game

To ensure that Google Play games services are functioning correctly in your game, test the application before you publish it on Google Play.

To run your game on your physical test device:

1. Verify that you have set up the test account that you are using to log in to the app (as described in Step 2).
2. Export an APK and sign it with the same certificate that you used to set up the project in Google Play Console. To export a signed APK in Android Studio, click Build >Generate Signed APK.
3. Install the signed APK on your physical test device by using the adb tool. To learn how to install an application, see Running on a Device.

Warning: When you run the application directly from Android Studio, Android Studio will sign the application with your debug certificate by default. If you did not use this debug certificate when setting up the application in Google Play Console, this will cause errors. Make sure to run an APK that you exported and signed with a certificate that matches one of the certificates you used during the application setup in Google Play Console.

Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.

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Get Started

Integrating the Google Mobile Ads SDK into an app is the first step toward displaying ads and earning revenue. Once you’ve integrated the SDK, you can choose an ad format (such as native or rewarded video) and follow the steps to implement it.

Before you begin

To prepare your app, complete the steps in the following sections.

App prerequisites

Use Android Studio 3.2 or higher

Make sure that your app’s build file uses the following values:

• A minSdkVersion of 16 or higher
• A compileSdkVersion of 28 or higher

Set up your app in your AdMob account

Register your app as an AdMob app by completing the following steps:

Register your app with AdMob. This step creates an AdMob app with a unique AdMob App ID that is needed later in this guide.

Configure your app

In your project-level build.gradle file, include Google’s Maven repository and Maven central repository in both your buildscript and allprojects sections:

Add the dependencies for the Google Mobile Ads SDK to your module’s app-level Gradle file, normally app/build.gradle :

Add your AdMob app ID (identified in the AdMob UI) to your app’s AndroidManifest.xml file. To do so, add a tag with android:name=»com.google.android.gms.ads.APPLICATION_ID» . You can find your app ID in the AdMob UI. For android:value , insert your own AdMob app ID, surrounded by quotation marks.

In a real app, use your actual AdMob app ID, not the one listed above. If you’re just looking to experiment with the SDK in a Hello World app, you can use the sample app ID shown above.

Note also that failure to add the tag as shown above results in a crash with the message:

(Optional) Declare AD_ID permission for previous versions to work with Android S.

If your app uses the Google Mobile Ads SDK version 20.4.0 or higher, you can skip this step since the SDK automatically declares the com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID permission and is able to access the Advertising ID whenever it’s available.

For apps that use the Google Mobile Ads SDK version 20.3.0 or lower and are targeting Android S, you must add the com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID permission in the AndroidManifest.xml file in order to target Android S:

To learn more about the com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID permission declaration, including how to disable it, please refer to this Play Console article.

Initialize the Google Mobile Ads SDK

Before loading ads, have your app initialize the Google Mobile Ads SDK by calling MobileAds.initialize() which initializes the SDK and calls back a completion listener once initialization is complete (or after a 30-second timeout). This needs to be done only once, ideally at app launch.

Ads may be preloaded by the Google Mobile Ads SDK or mediation partner SDKs upon calling MobileAds.initialize() . If you need to obtain consent from users in the European Economic Area (EEA), set any request-specific flags (such as tagForChildDirectedTreatment or tag_for_under_age_of_consent ), or otherwise take action before loading ads, ensure you do so before initializing the Google Mobile Ads SDK.

Here’s an example of how to call the initialize() method in an Activity:

Example MainActivity (excerpt)

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If you’re using mediation, wait until the completion handler is called before loading ads, as this will ensure that all mediation adapters are initialized.

Select an ad format

The Google Mobile Ads SDK is now imported and you’re ready to implement an ad. AdMob offers a number of different ad formats, so you can choose the one that best fits your app’s user experience.

Banner

Rectangular ads that appear at the top or bottom of the device screen. Banner ads stay on screen while users are interacting with the app, and can refresh automatically after a certain period of time. If you’re new to mobile advertising, they’re a great place to start.

Interstitial

Full-screen ads that cover the interface of an app until closed by the user. They’re best used at natural pauses in the flow of an app’s execution, such as between levels of a game or just after a task is completed.

Native

Customizable ads that match the look and feel of your app. You decide how and where they’re placed, so the layout is more consistent with your app’s design.

Rewarded

Ads that reward users for watching short videos and interacting with playable ads and surveys. Used for monetizing free-to-play apps.

Additional resources

The Google Mobile Ads repository on GitHub demonstrates how to use the different ad formats that this API offers.

Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.

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