how to get information of google play store in my android application?

Question

Is there any API for Google play store for getting application name, description, icon, downloads, ratting ??

I found this one but its an Ruby language code. cant find any android sample.

Please help regarding this.

Answer 1

I am not aware of any Google Play Store API specifically for the Android platform (or any platform for that matter). Google certainly does not officially have an API for that. But Andlytics, one of the most popular apps of it's kind on the Google Play Store is also an Open Source application.

It is available on github here: Andlytics. This should be helpful getting you started. I think it works on scrapping data. Mere speculation on my part about this of course.

UPDATE:

A re-look to the link by the OP reveals that the library is already in Java.

A quote from the webpage: https://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/ This is not an official api. I'm not afiliated to google in any way.

This library allow you to ask directly google's official android market servers for information, search for apps, ...

Main target is java but it can be easily adapted to other languages since it's Google ProtoBuf based.

There is a Ruby port by jberkel here and a PHP port by splitfeed here. These is also a crawler on top of this library by Raunak Gupta here.

And this is a link to it's source: https://code.google.com/p/android-market-api/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%2FAndroidMarketApi%2Fsrc%2Fcom%2Fgc%2Fandroid%2Fmarket%2Fapi

Perhaps, it can be, somehow, used in an Android app too.

Hope it helps. ;-)