Over the past year, I published 6 applications on the Play Store, all of which are aimed at distribution only in my country in the "Prices and Distribution" section of the developer's console. Nevertheless, today I checked the statistics on the locknuts (CURRENT SETTINGS BY THE COUNTRY DEVICE) , and all of them have a set of settings in different countries (ten or more). How is this possible?
And I know that the distribution filter works somehow, because one day I asked a friend abroad to install one of my applications, and he couldn’t until I checked his country in the “Prices and distribution” section. Therefore i don't know why
The only explanation I can provide so far is that these sections test different properties to get a country. Maybe the “distribution” only takes care of the country defined by the operator, while the information in the statistics checks where the phone is now ... This is not so intuitive, and there is no clear description in the Developer Console.
I found an abnormal thread asking the same thing, but did not respond to it properly and is closed today.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20008062/android-app-being-downloaded-from-non-selected-countries
User @jasonflaherty suggested using a modified Google Play that does not check countries. That might make sense ... but I would like more opinions.
Does this happen in your applications? Any idea what is going on?