The following glossary provides an overview of the necessary terms and concepts.
Designation | Area | Description |
|---|---|---|
Google Play | Google Play | An online store where users can download apps and buy other digital products. |
Google Play Console | A platform that offers an interface via which apps can be published on Google Play. The Google Play Console also displays details of apps, including all products and content sold via Google Play. | |
Google Cloud Console | A platform that provides and manages backend APIs, such as the Google Play Developer API. | |
Cloud Pub/Sub. | A real-time messaging service that can be used to send and receive messages between applications. Google Play uses Cloud Pub/Sub to transmit developer notifications in real time. To use Cloud Pub/Sub, a project with an active Cloud Pub/Sub API must exist on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Google offers quick start guides on these topics. | |
Pub/Sub-Theme | A topic of a named resource that is an information feed. | |
Pub/Sub subscription | To receive information on a specific topic, a subscription to this topic is required. Several subscriptions are possible for one topic, but each subscription belongs to a single topic. | |
Service account | Service accounts are used for authorized API calls from applications such as Frisbii Media. If an application authenticates itself as a service account, it has access to all resources (theme, subscription, etc.) to which the service account has access. | |
Purchase | A purchase describes the purchase of an in-app product that was created for a specific app. | |
Receipt | A receipt is used to verify a purchase via the Google Play Developer API and the Frisbii Media API. | |
Package Name | The package name corresponds to the name of the app. The designation is used for processes, e.g. API calls. |