The team behind the Google Play Store has announced some new options for app developers that will affect the user experience with it to some extent. Some of these changes will give some apps more visibility and promotion, while others will be prevented from appearing in recommendations, and you might even see some apps have their descriptions changed just for you.
In an effort to give users a better experience and encourage a higher level of quality in the apps they try, Google will begin filtering app recommendations to limit those that crash or freeze too often. Applications that exceed the threshold of 1,09% failures or 0,47% ANR ("Application Not Responding" errors for five seconds) will no longer appear in recommended application lists or may include warning that they may have quality issues.
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Google is also working on a new feature to re-introduce apps to users that may not have worked for them in the past. Google Play calls these Churned-user Store Listings and will allow developers to create alternative app listings that will appear to users who have previously tried an app and then uninstalled it. This can ideally create an opportunity to set different expectations about how the app can be useful. Of course, this may also mean that the application record may change significantly between the first and second viewings.
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In addition, the software giant described several innovations to help protect developers from hacking attempts and dishonest reviews. First up is a set of new features coming to the Play Integrity interface to help detect risky network traffic and debug the interface on devices. The second is an emerging program, the purpose of which is to work more closely with developers in the fight against inauthentic reviews, which are only intended as an attack on the developer or to push the application out of competition.
