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Part 2: Android application 47 Overview WINDEV Mobile allows you to develop applications for the Android operating system. Once the applications are created, developed and checked, all you have to do is deploy them. Several deployment modes are available: • Deployment via Google Play (or another market). • Deployment on a Web server. • Deployment from the PC via ADB. • Deployment by copy. Deployment via Google Play Google Play is an online service used to download applications (free of charge or not) on mobiles devices compatible with Android. Once published, the application can be downloaded by the users all around the world via the Google Play application installed on their phone. The publication of applications on Google Play must comply with specific rules: • During the first publication, you must register beside the Google Play service via a Google account. Once registered, you have the ability to publish or update as many applications as you want as many times as necessary. • The published application must be signed with a private cryptographic key. You have the ability to sign your own application: using a third-party organism is optional. The validity period of certificate must end after October 23, 2033. The applications generated by WINDEV Mobile are automatically signed by using the information specified in the generation wizard ("Signature of application" step) with a sufficient validity period. Caution : The published application must not be signed with a generic key (whose use must be limited to the tests in GO mode). • An icon must be associated with the application. The generation wizard of WINDEV Mobile allows you to define the icon to use. Remark : Google Play is the most common application but other applications are available. Deployment via a Web server You have the ability to propose Android applications for download from a link on a Web page. To do so, you must: 1. Copy the "apk" file of the application onto the Web server that hosts the page proposing the download of the application. Reminder: the "apk" file is created by WINDEV Mobile when generating the Android application.