As a user, how to see the number of Downloads an app has in the Windows App Store?
In Google Play Store, there is a Number of Downloads milestone. Is there something similar in Windows Store? If yes, Please add a link to your answer
Good question! Here, Windows seems to be withholding info that Google is showing. But in the Windows App Store you can see the "number of ratings" right next to the row of stars, which is somewhat similar as a milestone.
The only place you can see the number of downloads for an app is in the developer of the app dashboard
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I will attempt to be clear. Well, in the old web store of Windows Phone 8 before I could download manually any app or game, via the link: "Download and install manually" as you can see
in this image It is a feature that was lost with the arrival of the new store of Windows 10.
Ok. Now, in the following video Download and Install Apps (XAP/APPX Files) on WP8.1 via PC you can see at time t=53 sec, appears at bottom of page the link http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/vimeo/the App ID/xap?apptype=regular
After the user clicks on 'Download and install manually' a popup box appears. Now you can see inside the pop-up box that the downloading of the app is downloaded from: http://cdn.marketplacecontent.windowsphone.com
But in fact the complete address follows this format:
http://cdn.marketplacecontent.windowsphone.com/public/the App ID?downloadname=name of the app.type of file(xap, appx or appxbundle)
For example, this is the direction of the game Tentacles: Enter the Mind from the Microsoft CDN server:
http://cdn.marketplacecontent.windowsphone.com/public/8915ee7c-c55d-4e8f-a0b6-f80497e6f26e?downloadname=tentacles-enter-the-mind.xap
As you just seen, the old web store of Windows Phone 8 could download apps and games from the Microsoft CDN server. Even with the new store Windows 10 you can still download apps from Microsoft CDN. There are website that somehow can download apps and games from the Microsoft CDN server such as: www.appx4fun.com www.windowscommunity.in and www.winphonehub.org to mention some.
Based upon everything I said, you have any idea of how to I can access the Microsoft CDN server to download apps without resorting to third-party stores? I would like to know how they do it.
NOTE: All apps can be downloaded manually using this address:http://cdn.marketplacecontent.windowsphone.com/public/the App ID?downloadname=name of the app.type of file(xap, appx or appxbundle)but for it to work you need to know the ID of the app you want to download and the type of file. How can I find the ID of the app? Know the ID is a very important information!
Well, that's all. I hope your answer
Regards.
I have deployed my UWP in windows store. The app is available in windows store, however, it can be accessed only using the link provided by MS https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/9nblggh5cdck. The app is not available when I search in windows store. I have used exact name and alternate names, but it's not showing in windows store.
Any suggestion, why it it not available in windows store?
Thanks!
If your app is public (not Beta or Private) it'll take time to be available through the search (Site & Devices) .. around 72 Hours or more in some cases!
UPDATE 1:
That's odd.. I suggest to update the submission and make it Private (2nd option) then after your submission is published.. send another submission and make it Public (1st option).. maybe that will update the servers status and the cache..
Same here. My app not showing in the search result.
It's bug windows store.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/ru-ru/ba1c37da-861d-4108-b905-f1b574a401c6/app-disappeared-from-store?forum=wpsubmit
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsapps/en-US/66d1e7d5-9185-419b-ae79-8f457d060f41/my-app-cannot-be-found-in-the-store?forum=wpsubmit
petition:
https://www.change.org/p/microsoft-satya-nadella-bill-gates-windows-store-policy-team-windows-store-fix-windows-store-search-by-title-and-by-keyword-none-searchable-no-results?recruiter=358739216&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink
Thank you every one,
I emailed this to Microsoft and then I received reply with following statements:
We have reviewed your app and have moved it up in rank such that you
should see it in the Search results soon.
Within 10 hours after this email, I saw my app in the store.
Thanks to Windows Store Policy Team!
I am a developer who is new to Windows Store development.
I wrote one Windows Store App and tried to upload it, yet I encounter some errors after submit the appxupload file.
The error messages are shown as below:
I have no idea how to make my developer account authorized to publish apps with the capability it mentioned. Is there a different set of capability for different developer account for Windows Store Application?
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
Thank you!
Is there a way to get info about particular app such as number of downloads, some kind of statistics etc., not being its owner. I am wondering whether exists any API to get information from Windows Phone Market? Thank you in advance. Last concern : is it enable to use another ad on windows phone than microsoft advertising? Will such app be approved on market?
Unfortunately there is no such Api to Access these things.
I have submitted my windows phone 8 app,
There is a option called Reports of our apps in Dashboard of developer account page,
In that we can see the "Crash count " option.
Here i can track my app downloads, but i couldn't see any app crash.
Am i need to add anything specially to update this crash count, like capability.
Can anybody help me.
Thank you.
In the Dashboard Reports section you have one option called App Downloads, there you can see the number of times your app has been downloaded over a period of tiem.
In the Crash count report you actually can see the times your app has failed, (a crash). If you don't see anything there... that's good men! your app never do a crash fail. Good Job!
So, if you want to see the downloads go to the "App downloads" report instead of "Crash count"
Got the answer, thanks for #KooKiz comments.
No need to add any more extra work, it's automatically enabled. But the end-user must have the "Send feedback" global setting enabled on his phone, or his crash reports won't be sent.
And there is no way to track the number of times the app is uninstalled.
Thank you.