I've developed an application that works through Google's GSuite using OAuth2. The app is working fine and is part of the GSuite account that was set up to allow testing while developing it (which is the owning account of the app in the Developer Console). However, I now want to give the app to another GSuite company but can't see how to get them to add it?
The application has been submitted for review with Google to get it added via the Marketplace but we're keen to get the second company using it ASAP. I've had a look through the Google docs but couldn't find anything that appeared relevant and even tried to see if I could find an existing question on here. If anyone can point me in the right direction that would be much appreciated!
Cheers
You won't be able to give it to another company until it's published, so if the review is taking linger than expected, your best is to contact Google GSuite support
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First I have to apologize if it seems like I am asking a question that has been asked before, but I looked at the Google App Engine documentation and the questions and answers here, and I am finding a lot of inconsistencies.
So my question is: I signed up for a new Google account in August 2013 specifically for developing an app for Google App Engine. I would like to use a custom domain with my app. In the documentation it says that I need to sign up for Google Apps in order to do this. It also says that I can sign up for a free account for 1 person. But it looks like this is not possible anymore since December 2012. I've seen several answers on this here, but they seem outdated as well.
So do I really have to pay $50/year for Google Apps, a service that I really don't need, just to use a custom domain with my Google App Engine App?
Actually there is one free solution, which is not that obvious.
Go to AppEngine -> Application Settings -> Add domain -> Sign up for Google Apps
Start a free 30 day trial - Do not add the billing options
Setup your domain
Add the domain to your app engine project
When the 30 day trial expire the domain will still work.
Have a look at this discussion : https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-appengine/jC_K-YlmXhM
Yes you have to pay now. Look in the official appengine issues page, this particular issue has been very active lately. See
https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=8528#c24
Actually, there's a better free solution, if you only need one user:
Sign up for Google Apps for Business (through Google App Engine)
Go to Billing and cancel your whole account.
Log in again using the same credentials.
That's it! You now have a non-trial, fully functional, good ol' 1 user Google Apps domain.
I have set up http://www.footballverdict.com and it's hosted on Google App Engine. Everything works fine. You can visit the custom domain without problems. For some reason when I do a search on Google for "football verdict", the results show startorsit.appspot.com/ask and startorsit.appspot.com/about. There is no footballverdict.com in sight for the main site! It's been at least two months since I hooked up the custom domain. The blog sub-domain does show up in the search results, but that's because it's not hosted on Google App Engine.
Does anyone know how to get the custom domain into the search results and remove the appspot.com sub-domain?
The easiest way to handle this is to have your app detect if it's being requested on appspot.com, and if it is, send a 301 to your canonical domain. Search engines will pick up on this and start listing your canonical site instead.
The answer? Canonical URLs.
Google Webmaster Tools has a great little blurb about it here, and Yoast has another one here.
I hope this gets you pointed in a good direction.
Best of Luck! ~Isaac
Are you using google webmaster? I think this might help. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=83106
It will still take some time for the updates to get into google tho(up to 180 days).
I would like to delete the account I have with Google App Engine since I don't use it and I also would like to stop receiving email from Google regarding this account and policies update and alike.
Is there a way to do this?
UPD:
I raised this issue in google issue tracking system and it has been accepted as a valid feature request. http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=5745
UPD2:
A nice person from Google offered his help in deleting of my account as soon as I remove any apps I have there. Thanks for that!
A note from Google accouts TOS:
13.2 If you want to terminate your legal agreement with Google, you
may do so by (a) notifying Google at any time and (b) closing your
accounts for all of the Services which you use, where Google has made
this option available to you. Your notice should be sent, in writing,
to Google’s address which is set out at the beginning of these Terms.
By myself I didn't found how one can delete google app Engine account, so it's possible that this is not Services which you use, where Google has made this option available to you. As other option I see is to ask on Googl App Engine community question board, and hope that google moderators read those question.
I'm using Google's user api on Google App Engine for authentification. As nearly everyone have a Google Account and api is easy to implement, that solution is convenient.
The problem is, though, with user who do not have a Google Account (or have no idea what a Google Account is). Where the api provides a nice interface to log in/log out and redirect immediately and easily to the app, nothing is said to developers about potential new users.
So here are a couple of things worth noticing:
Google' new Google Account page (https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount) is pretty straightforward, but not convenient at all for new users of a GAE app: no mention of anything not Google (users who don't really know what authentification is won't have any clue of why they need to open an account with Google), dead end (won't lead anywhere in the end), ugly.
GAE Log In screen includes a link to the New Google Account page. This link is of the form:
https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAccount?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2F_ah%2Flogin%3Fcontinue%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fprofile%2F&service=ah<mpl=gm&sig=0aa0a000aa000a00000aa0000a000aa
(Where example.com is the return url provided to the API). Great! But the situation is in no way different than it was: still a dead end, still no mention of any non-Google app, still ugly).
So, I'm asking, is there any imaginative way to provide a nicer interface for new users? Have anyone have ideas of how to present the process to the new users (a video for how to create a new account? some kind of tutorial page? etc.)? Just trying to think outside of the technical box here...
Regarding the various authentication options you can check out the Java or Python docs on OpenID (http://openid.net/)
Basically this allows supporting authentication by different agents, which includes Google accounts or even your own GAE application's custom implementation.
Furthermore you can check out User Experience summary for Federated Login for more information regarding UX considerations and best practices - with user authentication.
Looking at the Google App Engine API, it seems that despite all its great features, the User API is extremely limiting. It seems you can only authenticate people who have a Google account, or use an OpenID account, or via some OAuth kung fu (handshaking with a Facebook account etc).
This appears to be a major stumbling block for anyone who wants a proprietary user base by creating user accounts within the application. In short, I don't want my users to have to use or create a Google account to access my app.
Has anyone else come across this limitation and has it been a deal breaker for using the GAE? Am I missing something? It is possible to deploy my own Spring based security etc within the app and use my own User API? Comments on this issue greatly appreciated. Thanks.
You're free to completely ignore the Users API and implement your own authentication system, as you would in any other hosting environment. Nothing about App Engine prevents you from doing so.
The Users API is just there as a convenience, in case you'd like to spare yourself the effort of re-implementing everything, and spare your users the inconvenience of filling out another sign up form and remembering another set of credentials.
You can always implement your own user management system.
In my application I have used spring-security for this purpose. spring security 3.0.1 works perfectly fine with app engine 1.3.5. There may occur some issues integrating other versions of both. I found below links extremely useful :
http://www.google-app-engine.com/blog/post/Spring-security-fix-for-google-app-engine.aspx.
http://www.dotnetguru2.org/bmarchesson/index.php?p=1100
http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine-java/browse_thread/thread/964e7f5e42840d9c