Privacy

Not legitimately. Google has no feature to sell or transfer ownership of a developer account. A “sale” is really handing over the login to a personal Google identity — which you can never truly own, and which Google can freeze the moment re-verification does not match the person operating it. The supported route is Google’s official app transfer, which moves a listing rather than an account.

Because there's no clean way to do it. Selling means sharing a full Google login — Gmail, Photos, Contacts and more. Even deleted data can be recovered, and the original owner can reclaim the account at any time, taking your apps with them.

No. Google's account-recovery and data-retention systems mean traces can be recovered after deletion. Selling exposes your private life to a stranger and never fully transfers control. If you want the account to earn without giving it away, keep ownership and work with a publishing partner instead — see how Android app ad revenue sharing works.

Yes — if your app serves ads to users in the European Economic Area or the UK, Google requires you to gather consent through a Google-certified Consent Management Platform. In practice that means integrating Google's User Messaging Platform (UMP) SDK, or another certified CMP, and showing the consent form before requesting ads. The requirement came into force in January 2024 and is enforced at the ad-serving level: without a valid consent signal, ad requests from EEA and UK users are limited to non-personalised inventory or refused outright, which shows up as a sharp eCPM drop for European traffic. Setting it up is a one-off job — configure a GDPR message in the AdMob privacy and messaging section, add the UMP SDK, and request consent at app start before initialising the ads SDK. Apps aimed only at non-European markets still benefit from having it, because traffic mix changes.