Google on Thursday announced it has opened doors of its Play app store for app developers living in China.
This means that Chinese developers will now be permitted to create and sell Android apps through the Play store in more than 130 countries; excluding China where the Play store is currently not accessible. In other words, they can now earn revenue by publishing paid apps and apps with in-app purchases or subscriptions via the Google Play store.
The announcement was made via a post on the official Android Developer Blog, which read “As part of that continued effort, we’re excited to announce merchant support in China, enabling local developers to export and sell their apps to Google Play users in more than 130 countries.
Chinese developers can now offer both free and paid applications through various monetisation models, including in-app purchasing and subscriptions. For revenue generated on Google Play, developers will receive payment to their Chinese bank accounts via USD wire transfers.”
Google said that revenue generated by the developers will be deposited directly into their Chinese bank accounts courtesy USD wire transfers.
Developers living in China can visit play.google.com/apps/publish and get themselves registered as a developer. For those willing to sell apps and in-app products will also be required to sign up for a Google Wallet merchant account, which is available on the “Revenue” page in the Google Play Developer Console.
A recent report from the Information also suggest that Google is planning to launch a version of its Google Play app store in China in conjunction with Huawei and ZTE. The search engine giant had exited China in 2010 after repeated hacking attacks and persistent censorship.
