google play - Android Developer Console - Change app owner

Question

I've two accounts as Android Developer at Play Store: Account1 and Account2. I have an App with package com.example.miapp associated to Account1 from long time ago. I need to associate the App to the Account2; that Account2 will be the owner of this app. In other words, migrate my app from an account to another. Is posible? If I need something similar but between two different persons accounts, is it posible? How I can do that?

Answer 1

Yes it's possible. I've done it.

Details can be found here: http://phandroid.com/2012/06/21/getting-acquired-how-to-transfer-ownership-of-your-android-app-or-game/

or here: https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/checklist/3294213

The problem is not transferring an app to another account (and it doesn't matter if that's between two of your own accounts or between two different persons's or company's accounts), that's a matter of less than a day, but transferring the signing key. If the signing key is used for no other apps, then there's no problem. If other apps are signed with the same key and if the transfer happens to another person/company then you'll have to share the key, which isn't always desirable.

My recommendation is therefore to sign each app with another key, because that makes such a transfer easier.