What you need to know
- Users are now seeing new Google Play warnings for apps with performance issues.
- This warning appears if other owners with similar Android models to yours experience frequent issues with your app.
- If the app crash rate exceeds 8% on a particular phone model, all owners of that phone will be warned and may avoid them until the issue is fixed.
Google seems to have taken extra steps to warn users about apps that don’t work.
Mishaal Rahman murmured About this new warning about apps that may stop working on your phone (via Android Police). A new warning for users is based on data collected by Google about the technical performance of your app on devices similar to those you own.
Additionally, it appears that Google was planning to introduce this new warning system to the Play Store in October. According to an Android developer blog post, Google’s per-phone-model quality bar was introduced because some apps work perfectly fine on some of his Android models and not on others. is. This has resulted in a “bad behavior threshold” that Google wants developers to maintain their apps with.
The user-perceived crash rate and user-perceived ANR rate thresholds were set at 8%. Exceeding this triggers a Play Store app warning that some users now see.
Some users are reporting that Google Play is telling them, “Recent data from similar devices indicates this app may stop working on your device.” On Telegram pic.twitter.com/fdGW96xyCfMarch 2, 2023
Frustrating to use an app is never a good thing and Google seems to be trying to remove such silliness from the store. It also gives the user a chance to decide whether or not to download the app. This is only if the user has prior knowledge of this useful information.
Google also says it limits problematic apps from appearing in certain detection sections if they’re tagged with a technical warning.
That said, app developers should be able to nip the problem in the bud before it hits the measly 1% user-perceived crash rate across all Android devices. Google provided developers with the Play Console tool. With this tool, you can monitor your app’s core vitals and view areas that need fixing in future patches.
It’s becoming the new normal for developers to be responsible for the products they put on the Play Store. In July 2022, Google replaced the old permission list with a data safety section (before we say it’s reverted). This was a method that was completely transparent to the user as to what data was obtained and how it was used — the amount of information given was still up to the developer.
