Google has decided it’s time to clean house and will be removing the useless or broken appsThe changes to minimum features and anti-spam policies will go into effect on August 31, at which point Google can (and must) remove poor-quality apps that remain on Google Play.
We have all downloaded an app from Google Play. It’s no use and one wonders how Google can allow these types of apps in its store. In a month, the bar for what is required of an app published on Google Play should be raised.
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Google has introduced changes to its features, content, and user experience policy, clarifying what is allowed and what is not. The requirements are two-pronged: minimal functionality and broken functionality. In common terms: that the application is useless and that it does not work because it contains errors.
When it comes to minimal features, Google implicitly rejects apps that have very limited content and functionality, meaning they contain almost nothing. Here are some specific examples that Google mentions: Static applications that only display text or PDFthose that have virtually no content and contain no user experience, such as those that are just a wallpaper or those that do literally nothing.
On the other hand there is broken apps. The Google App Store doesn’t want apps that close, crash, or just don’t work properly. Google has been demoting apps with store-closing issues for a while with initiatives like Vitals, but now it doesn’t even want to see them in its store.
In Google Play there is no more space for “Reiki Charger”
As a user, this means that We should no longer encounter applications that are clearly false or absurd. like a reiki charger or that work so poorly that using them is an ordeal. As a developer, this means ensuring that apps published on Google Play are stable and functional.
These changes or clarifications are included in the July Google Play Policy update and They will be effective on August 31st.. Now, Google reviewers will be able to use these reasons to remove apps that violate them.
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