Our company (DriveHQ) has published a few apps on Windows Store. However, when searching apps in the Store using our company name "DriveHQ", we can only find two apps whose names contain "DriveHQ" - DriveHQ FileManager and DriveHQ WebDAV Service; the other two apps are named as Webcam Security Camera and CameraFTP Cloud Security Camera Viewer.
So my question is: in order for users to find an app by searching the company name, do we have to include the company name in the app name?
The choice is yours:
If you don’t want to change the name of your app, you can add your company name to the keywords in the Store listing that are not displayed to customers but can help your app appear in search results related to your company name.
If you want to include your company name in the app “Webcam Security Camera” and “CameraFTP Cloud Security Camera Viewer”, you might have to think about keeping your app name short since the space to display your app’s name is limited in many places. Then you need to create a new submission for it and please make sure that the new name is used in the Package/Properties/DisplayName element in the app manifest file, and update the graphics and text including your app name.
You might refer to Rename an app that has already been published.
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Our app is designed to be used by our internal users most of the time. However, we have a partner company that we are planning to give access to our app. In other words, some users are outside of our domain but within our partner company's domain.
Would it be possible if we deploy the app internally and add OUR PARTNER'S DOMAIN in the allowed list?
I'm currently trying publish my app in the windows phone store. The thing is that I want to have a specific name, let's say 'Notes'. So in the store it should have the title 'Notes', but there's already another app (from another publisher) named 'Notes'.
How do I upload my App with the name 'Notes' when there's already another app with the same name?
See these both apps as an example (both have the same name, but they're from another publisher):
http://www.windowsphone.com/de-de/store/app/note-it/78a0f2dd-e988-42b4-94ff-6dd62ed18146
http://www.windowsphone.com/de-de/store/app/note-it/964e7994-0575-4770-b393-b471e74a45b4
In past you could have set same app name for two different apps. But last year Microsoft changed it's policy and started reserving the app names. Now, no new app can have use already existing/reserved name.
This is what it is written in Microsoft's website.
Note: If this name you entered is already reserved or in use by another developer, you'll see an error message and won't be able to reserve that name. If you are unable to reserve a name for which you hold the trademark or other legal right, or you see another app in the Windows Store using that name, contact Microsoft.
So you cannot use a name for your app, if an other app with that same name is already present in the store.
We are currently integrating google drive permissions into our app. We would like to be able to display the company name for permissions like google drive does currently. For example,
when you go to a file and select Share and change the share settings you are able to see the company name say "Acme, Co.".
Currently I am seeing that the permissions API returns domain, for example acmeco.com. Is there a way to retrieve the actual company name (Acme, Co.).
Thank you
How can I (as a vendor contracted to develop an app for an enterprise) publish an app to the Google Play Store on behalf of an enterprise?
They don't have a Google Play account set up but want the app to appear under their brand in the Google Play Store.
What's the correct technical (and legal) process I should follow to set up their account and give my own company access to publish on their behalf?
The bare minimum requirement that I am aware of is that your company should get a written consent from your client, authorizing your company to use their company's name, logo, brand, etc for the expressed purpose of being displayed in Google Play.
My company had done something similar, we publish branded apps for clients, though our company's name is used as the vendor name. One of those apps got removed because some zealous legal guy in one of our client companies found the app and, unaware of the cooperation between the companies, filed a complaint to Google. The app was reinstated without much fuzz after getting that guy to send another email to Google requesting the app to be reinstated, so it looks like Google doesn't have anything against this (assuming your client doesn't reside in a sanctioned country).
You can give them advance notice by providing legal documents via this link
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/6320428
From the page itself...
The Google Play App Review team accepts advance notice about your
upcoming app or store listing publishing event.
We only accept advance notice in the following scenario(s):
You have written documentation proving that you have permission to use
a 3rd party's intellectual property in your app or store listing (e.g.
Brand names and logos, graphic assets, audio, etc.). You have gambling
or casino-style elements in your game, and need to provide your Korean
Game Rating and Administrative Committee (GRAC) rating certificate to
Google so your game can be distributed in Korea.
Lesson learn by one suspended app. Hope this will help others. If your app suspended for such reason you can also contact them via link in the suspension email.
I am thinking of developing an application like this:
My application has a google-service-account
I let my users share their documents with my service account
While an user visits my application, he gets some reports based on the files he has shared.
For this, my application needs to uniquely identify the owner of the documents shared with it. I looked at the API but could not find how to do so. I found methods like File.getOwnerNames(), but they are plain strings containing the names, but not any unique key to identify the user.
Need help on how to achieve this. Thanks.
Sanjay
Use the permissions.list method and find the permission corresponding to the owner.