Is there a way to link to all of a developer's Google Play Store apps?

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In my app, I want to allow users to open the Google Play store to see all of my other apps. In iOS, I just use the following (example) iTunes link to pull them all up:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/electronic-arts/id284800461?mt=8

Is there a way to get ALL of my apps to show (besides a search for my company name, which is rather generic)?

score 35 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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Search for a product, including the pub: tag, as can be found at the API page entitled Linking to your products. Note that searching via a URL requires a different method. Both are included here. Start an intent like this:

try {
    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://search?q=pub:Developer+Name+Here")));
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("http://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Developer+Name+Here")));
}

Note that the market doesn't work on the emulator, so this code will instead pull it up in a URL. This method courtesy of this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Nov 29 '12 at 17:08

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I am getting "ActivityNotFoundException: No Activity found to handle Intent { act=android.intent.action.VIEW dat=market://developer?id=abc }" – Ethan Allen Nov 29 '12 at 17:12
No that was on my device with 4.2. – Ethan Allen Nov 29 '12 at 17:23
market://details?id= works just fine. changing it to developer causes the crash. – Ethan Allen Nov 29 '12 at 17:25
Are developer ids unique? How can I ensure the search results will not include apps from any other developer with the same name as myself? – Jose Gómez Mar 03 '15 at 14:59

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 29 '12 at 17:06

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Just use the developer parameter. This is the shortcut for googles

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Google+Inc.

Google's Apps

Just put a + between works if there are spaces

answered Nov 29 '12 at 17:06

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Not found also with/witout space and dot – Vlad Dec 24 '18 at 06:44

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 29 '12 at 17:36

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Android actually has an even better way to handle this.

You can also group all your applications by the package names, provided you had the discipline to actually think over it. For instance, if all my apps start with com.mycompanyname.androidappname, I can simply search https://play.google.com/store/search?q=com.mycompanyname.*

answered Nov 29 '12 at 17:36

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This works like a charm. I'm using this to link to a subset of my apps, for them I have a "subdomain", i.e. com.mycompanyname.someofmyapps – Jose_GD Dec 10 '14 at 14:50

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Dec 24 '18 at 06:47

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Now there are another ways described here

https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/linking-to-google-play#OpeningPublisher

e.g. for Google Inc https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5700313618786177705

answered Dec 24 '18 at 06:47

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 04 '21 at 06:08

You can use this, it works for me

private void moreApps(Context context, int devName){
        try {
            context.startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                    Uri.parse(context.getString(R.string.url_market_search_app)
                            + context.getString(devName))));
        } catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
            try {
                context.startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW,
                        Uri.parse(context.getString(R.string.url_playstore_search_app)
                                + context.getString(devName))));
            } catch (Exception e) {
                Toast.makeText(context,
                        R.string.install_google_play_store,
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }

}

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Is there a way to link to all of a developer's Google Play Store apps?

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