Change developer name in different apps

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I have a developer account at Googleplay. In all apps appears the same developer name, I would like for each one to appear a different developer name.

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    Matthew, I think unfortunately it is not possible to do this. The name of the Desenv. is the name you provided in the account creation. To have a different name with just a new account.

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Actually, the name that appears in the shop is "Publisher". For Google, the user who created the Google Play account is both the Publisher and the Developer, even if the real developer is someone else. Cruelly it’s like an X brand car - for the public, who "developed" the car was the X brand, no matter the workers who performed the service.

To solve your problem, then remain the following solutions:

  1. Maintain a single store and put some help/about section in the applications, informing the real developer of them; or
  2. Keep a single store and put in the app description in the developer information store, but don’t find it very common to do this; or
  3. Maintain a single store and change the name of the application packages, according to the developer (com.developer 1.app_do_developer 1, com.developer 2.app_do_developer etc.)but with this solution you cannot easily verify the name of the developer and will require a republication of all modified applications (download counts, comments etc. will be lost); or
  4. Create a new store for each developer and transfer the apps via the following address: step-by-step Google (text in English), however this will imply the cost of creating new stores for developers, if there are no.

I particularly use the first solution.

Issue 1:

Performing a Google Play search with the text pub:XXXX, You can view the Developer apps named XXXX, which is the same Publisher ("pub" comes from "Publisher", Publisher). In the URL, it will appear https://play.google.com/store/search?q=pub:XXXX.

However, it is also possible to perform the research with dev:XXXX ("dev" from Developer). In the URL, you will see https://play.google.com/store/search?q=dev:XXXX.

Still, it is possible to perform the search using the URL https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=XXX, with XXX being your Google user account.

The strange thing is that conducting research with devand with pub we can get different results.

For example, I have two developer accounts (I call them here A and B). I transferred the applications from account A to B after having already developed 4 of them. Below are the results of the searches:

  • dev:A: 4 apps
  • dev:B: 6 apps
  • pub:A: 3 apps
  • pub:B: 3 apps

I’ll be looking into it...

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