Greetings, Well, I know the subject sounds weird, but I do not know how to express it better in a brief.
The question is that I have created an application in two languages, as it was my first one and I want to release it ASAP, I simply create two different applications for each one (Spanish and English), and uploaded them such way to Google Play. I have had no major problems with this, apart from loosing positioning as installations and ratings are separated, but now I have planned to release a new version in Italian and may be later in German, and I do not want to keep them separated because I prefer that all installations and ratting are in one application account instead of spread among several ones. Also adding improvements and fixing bugs will be easier with just one application than with one for each language. Moreover, I for each language I must maintain two versions: free with ads and per pay without them. Not a major problem with just two languages neither, but a bit annoying with four. I have yet a clear idea on what changes I must do to my code for supporting several languages at once, however this will generate some problems with Google Play that I have not very clear how to address. The first problem is that if I create a new application package, I will lost all ratings and installs on previous one. I think the best solution may be reusing the application package for the Spanish version, that is about reaching 100 000 total installs and 1400 comments, and send the English version to the trash, loosing just about 15 000 installs and 75 comments. So, I am not specially concerned about that. But it happens that appart from free versions of my app, I have also released per pay versions in both Spanish and English. I do not care about loosing both the comments and the installs on those, since I have just one comment in the English version and less than 70 installs counting both English and Spanish, but If I just discontinue the development of one of those, the users will complain as they have paid for it. I do not want to just refund them for the old application, since I am pretty sure that I will lost money because many of them may decide to keep the old version even without updates instead of buying the new one with the refunded money. So I have considered offering refund on the purchase of the new app instead for those users that can probe that they have purchased the old one. The question is: what about the 30% of Google Play? It will be returned to the user also? It will be charged to me even when I refund the user? Well, any ideas on this issue as a whole are welcome. Thanks a lot in advance, -- 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
