Google's Play Store Cleanup: How It Affects App Developers
Google's Play Store Cleanup: How It Affects App Developers
Discover how Google's crackdown on 'low-quality' Android apps impacts developers. Learn about the new standards and what developers need to do to ...
What Constitutes a 'Low-Quality' App?
According to Google's updated policy, 'low-quality' apps include those that:
- Are unstable or prone to crashes.
- Lack responsiveness or are slow to load.
- Offer minimal functionality such as single-page apps or simple wallpaper collections.
- Fail to install or load properly.
LOL
Thanks for doing what you should have been doing for 16 years.
Publishing on the play store now requires giving out personal identity documents (like drivers license or passport), full legal name/phone number/email/tax ID/etc., as well as your private signing keys.
That's a hard nope for me.
I'm surprised this wasn't already the case. You're distributing potentially malicious code to users' devices, and they expect a base level of safety from the Play Store. You're free to publish elsewhere, so it's not like Apple's policy.
I am not an android developer, and privacy wise I don't try to put the toothpaste back into the tube. I would have been fine with everything except the last one. What happens when there is a data breach on Google?