Now that you have
the initial version of your application in mind, your development phase
has come to an end. Now, you're starting
to think about releasing your application
to the Google Play Store. Although you learned about
several important steps in the previous lesson regarding prerequisites for
application submission, there are still a
few key things to consider before submitting
your application. Over the next few minutes, you will explore several
components you need to ensure are correct on your
Google Developer account. Choosing an innovative
and appealing name for your application is as important as the design and build
of the app itself. When you are designing
your application, the name of the final product
should be considered. Another vital
element is to write a good description for
your application so that potential users have
a sense of what the application is about and
how it will benefit them. Descriptions should be no
longer than 4,000 characters. A good place to start would
be to look for some of the most popular Google
Play Store applications and read their descriptions
for inspiration. Along with a strong
description of your app, consider the keywords
you will select to help place the app higher in the
Play Store search engine. Think about what keywords
should be used to easily find and search
for your application. Created keywords will be the words that your
application will be known for and discoverable in the pool of roughly two
million applications. Because there is such
a high number of applications in the Play Store, you need to really
think about the words that might not be
as commonly used, but also consider
that the words you choose need to be
related to your app. Google introduced screenshot
and video elements to help developers showcase their app to
potential customers. Think about what your primary
screenshot will be and what is the most
important feature within your application. Customers are generally
just glancing over the description and might
not read it in detail. So a good screenshot
can make up for that and attract the user to
download your application. Let's explore how this
works in practice. After I have configured my
Google Developer account, I also need to make sure that my Android Studio project has several key things set
up correctly as well. First, I need to make sure
that the application name, identifier and version
are all set up correctly. To check the app name, open stringsx.xml file, and check the value of
the app name resource. There I will set my application display name to Little Lemon. This will be a text
displayed below the application icon after users download it
to their phones. Next, you make sure
your bundle identifier matches the identifier set
in the Google Developer, and I can confirm
it is the same. The application submission to the Google Developer will
fail if it does not match. To set identifier, open
the build.gradle file located in the app module and check the
namespace attribute. I will also check
if the version of the application
is set correctly. As this is my first submission
of this application, I want version name to be 1.0 with a build
version code of 1. The minimum supported
SDK version is set to 21.
This means that even people with an
older Android device will be able to download and use it. Last important thing I need to verify is application icons. And so, these are just some of
the things you need to consider in your preparation
for submission phase. Consider successful applications in the Google Developer and become inspired to put that into use for your application.