Don't judge this whole forum by my response. This is a good discussion to have, even if it's not the one you wanted to start.
If you want a more direct answer to your question, I suggest you ask Google Play Developer Support how many apps you can have in one account. If they don't know or won't say, well then no one will. On Sunday, February 1, 2015 at 12:11:36 AM UTC-8, Russell Cecala wrote: > > hmmm ... Do not post repetitive content ... could these apps be > considered repetitive: > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crittermap.airhockey > > > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.crittermap.airhockey.dragons > Fair question. Could they by any definition of that extremely vague term? Sure. Does Google Play object to stuff like that? Not generally, otherwise it would have to ban stuff like Temple Run Brave and Angry Birds Space. Have they been profitable for me? No, but they have for others. > wow! looks like your using some sort of "wizard" like eclipse or android > studio to generate these apps. > > I am a simple bash/ant person. :P > You miss my point if you think I am against code reuse, automation, or other ways of reducing cost for producing more apps. That's not what you would find if you went to my seminars or read my published works. If you truly have means of creating 1000s of apps at low cost, through automated or human means, that in itself is to be admired. If you have the skills to know which of them will be best selling before they hit the market, even better. That's something we should all strive for. > Too bad whoever it is that enforces those regulations for google does not > seem to understand them. Really? > The enforcement and lack thereof is a different story. Google tends to rely on automated means of identifying likely violaters, does manual review as little as possible, and can be quite arbitrary and heavyhanded when it does knock developers down - suspend first, ask questions never. In such a situation, based on the posts I've seen here, people get an extremely vague message that they may be violating one or more guidelines, without specifics of what Google actually objects to. In such a case, stating that a "App B got away with X" won't do you much good. In your case, they may not even say which of the 1000s of apps they object to. It's just my opinion that, even with the means to produce more, you should prefer quality over quantity. I could be wrong, but these are my reasons. A. The cost to publish an app, optimize its listing, graphics, message, search rankings, provide support and maintenance, is not going to be zero even if you get the coding cost to zero. B. Being in Google Play grants an app no real special privileges. By that, I mean Google Play gives no special treatment to apps just for being new. This is different from iOS. Apps that sell well get respect from Google's search algorithm. Apps that don't do well, they might as well be invisible. C. Some suspect that the popularity of your individual apps may affect the search credibility of all of the apps in the account. This is not proven. But if true, it means that you would be better off with 100 popular apps than those same 100 popular apps mixed with thousands of unpopular ones. D. You are very very likely to attract unwanted scrutiny from Google Spambots if you start publishing thousands of apps per month. This scrutiny may not be fair if all your apps are truly unique and of high quality. They may ding you for things that you could say other apps are getting away with. I would venture my opinion, and I could be wrong. There may be no published limit to the number of apps in an account. But I suspect that there is an unpublished number beyond which Google will give your account added scrutiny, by automated or manual means. If you still want to go for the max, the standard solution is simply to have multiple developer accounts. Some will advise you to have no traceable connection between them in case you lose one. Nathan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
