Linking to your products
For a link that includes des the Google Play brand icon, check out
Badges page.
Google Play provides several link formats that let you bring users to yourproducts In The Way You Want, from Android apps, web pages, ads, reviews, articles, social media posts, and more.
The link formats let you:
- Link to a specific app's
Product details page
- Link to
List of all of your apps, or
- Link to
Search Result of your choice
- Link to
Collection on Google Play
If you are linking from an Android app, you can also control whether the linklaunches The Play Store application or the browser, which takes the userto the Google Play web site.
Linking to a product details page
Use the format below to deep-link users directly to a specific app's productdetails page. at the product details page, users can see the app description, screenshots, reviews and more, and then install it.
To create the link, you need to know the app's fully qualifiedPackagename, Which is declared in the app's
Manifestfile. The package name is also visible in the developer console.
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From a Web site:
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http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_name>
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From an Android app:
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market://details?id=<package_name>
Here's an example:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps
For details on how to send the link in an Android app, see
Linking from an Android app.
Linking to a product list
Use the format below to link users to a list of apps published by you. theproduct list lets users see all of the apps from a specific her, withratings, Editorial badges, and an install button for each.
To create the link, you need to know yourPublisher name, Which isavailable from the developer console.
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From a Web site:
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http://play.google.com/store/search?q=pub:<publisher_name>
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From an Android app:
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market://search?q=pub:<publisher_name>
Here's an example:
http://play.google.com/store/search?q=pub:Google Inc.
For details on how to send the link in an Android app, see
Linking from an Android app.
Linking to a search result
Use the format below to link users to a search query result on Google Play. the search result page shows a list of apps (and optionally other content) thatmatch the query, with ratings, badges, and an install button for each.
To create the link, you just need a search query string. If you want thequery to search outside of the Google Play apps listings, you can remove&c=apps
Part of the link URL.
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From a Web site:
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http://play.google.com/store/search?q=<search_query>&c=apps
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From an Android app:
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market://search?q=<seach_query>&c=apps
Here's an example:
http://play.google.com/store/search?q=maps&c=apps
For details on how to send the link in an Android app, see
Linking from an Android app.
Linking to a collection
If your app is featured or appears in one of the Google Play top charts orcollections, you can use the format below to link users directly to thecollection. the collection shows a ranked list of apps in the collection, withratings, short descriptions, and
An Install button.
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From a Web site:
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http://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/<collection_name>
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From an Android app:
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market://apps/collection/<collection_name>
Here's an example:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/editors_choice
For details on how to send the link in an Android app, see
Linking from an Android app.
Table 1.Collections on Google Play.
Collection |
Collection_name |
Staff picks (featured) |
Featured |
Editor's choice |
Editors_choice |
Top paid |
Topselling_paid |
Top free |
Topselling_free |
Top New free |
Topselling_new_free |
Top New paid |
Topselling_new_paid |
Top grossing |
Topgrossing |
Trending |
Movers_shakers |
Best Selling in games |
Topselling_paid_game |
Linking from an Android app
There are two general formats for links that are accessible to users onandroid devices, the two formats trigger slightly different behaviors on thedevice:
market://
Launches the Play Store app to load thetarget page.
http://
Lets the user choose whether to launch theplay store app or the browser to handle the request. If the browser handles therequest, it loads the target page on the Google Play web site.
In general, you shoshould usehttp://
Format for links on Web pagesand
market://
For links in Android apps.
If you want to link to your products from an Android app, createIntent
That opens an Google Play URL, as shown in the examplebelow.
Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);intent.setData(Uri.parse("market://details?id=com.example.android"));startActivity(intent);
Summary of URL formats
The table below provides a summary of the Uris currently supported by the Google Play (both onthe Web and in an Android Application), as discussed in the previous sections.
For this result |
Web page Link |
Android app Link |
Show the product details page for a specific app |
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_name> |
market://details?id=<package_name> |
Show APPs by a specific her |
http://play.google.com/store/search?q=pub:<publisher_name> |
market://search?q=pub:<publisher_name> |
Search for apps using a general string query. |
http://play.google.com/store/search?q=<query> |
market://search?q=<query> |