Publish a private app on Google Play

Question

I am developping an application and I want to publish it to Google Play so that only my friends can see it on the store and then install it, but I wish everyone else wouldn't even know my app exists. When publishing to alpha or internal testing in the Play Console, it says that the app needs to be published before the testing link to appear.

I need your help here: how can I publish it in private mode like I said before? Thanks for your help, and sorry for my bad english :-/ !

Answer 1

Look here I think there is your solution

Look here I think there is your solution

Answer 2

As mentioned in the Official Document by Google here you cannot publish app for the private user.

However things you can do is to hard code the list of IMEI numbers or Device ID and check the same on your white list(Application side).Allow access if match is found else kill the app.

The other way is to allow group of people to access your app, by creating a group using Google+ id, who all can access your app.The further notes, steps and other ways on limited Alpha/Beta User can be found here and here . Hope it helps.

Answer 3

Oh erm... Well...

It seems that all I did previously was right. In fact, I just had to wait the publication a couple of hours after the manual publishing. There is 2-3 hours to wait until the link becomes available.

My app is now only available to beta testers. Thanks for your time guys!

Answer 4

您为什么不保存APK文件并通过电子邮件将其发送给您的朋友，让他们在设备上安装