I have written an app that is hosted on our private server. We release updates to our customers via a push notification. All this works fine.
We always intended to publish the app on Google Play Store eventually but one of our customers that is a council, has published the app on the store without asking us. I think he wanted control of updating the app and the benefits of Alpha/Beta testing. This is causing us problems as when i try to upload the apk from my developers console, Google is saying the package name already exists on the Play Store.
I understand that once an app has been published on the Store then it cannot be deleted. It can however be unpublished. The following things concern me.
- If the other person unpublishes the app, will i be able to upload the app from my developers console?
- Will what i want to do require the other person to delete his developers console account?
- If the other person does delete his account will there still be a reference to the package name after this deletion of account, meaning i still can't upload my app.
- Now that someone else has published my app first, will i have to re-name the package of my app to upload to the store?
Any advise is appreciated, thanks in advance
Matt.