A while back I wrote my own Android app to access information from Google Checkout regarding my Android app sales, using the Google Checkout APIs. I was frustrated by the clumsy, multi-step process of checking via the browser on my phone and also by the limited range of reporting via the Google Checkout web interface. I have a number of different apps, and what I wanted was a simple report that told me how many of each app I had sold during a particular time period. Amazingly, the Google Checkout reporting does not provide this. You can either manually count the sales for each app by name, or export the data in CSV format, which does not provide the app names (this still boggles my mind).
Anyway, I wrote an app called CheckoutCheck that will generate simple sales reports, telling you how many of each app you sold for a particular time range, and the gross and net revenue for those sales. To do this, I had to pull two different XML files from Google, one of which has the sales figures, the other which has the product names, and cross-reference them to generate the report. Often, the XML files are huge, so the app can run very slow, and currently isn't feasible for generating reports for periods longer than a day or two. Now I've open-sourced the app. It's available here: https://code.google.com/p/checkoutcheck/ Hopefully those interested in modifying or expanding it for their specific needs will find it useful. If someone only wanted gross and net revenue for a particular period, they wouldn't need to pull the XML with the product names and do the cross-referencing. Such a report would be much faster and would be better suited for querying longer time ranges. I'm not interested in developing the app further, but hopefully some devs out there in the community might be willing to build on it. If you have any questions or comments, just let me know at [email protected]. Cheers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en.
