Google I / O is of great importance for the entire ecosystem that surrounds Android and those services that are related to arrive in a moment to not even know where those of Mountain View are going. This is a matter of strategy and tactics to distance itself from its direct competitors in a sector, that of new technologies, in which a huge amount of money is invested. That importance leads us to be in a few days in which the panorama for this year is being drawn in relation to all Google products.
One of those services that you will receive important news, both for the user and for the developer who launches apps, is the Google Play Store. I already talked last week about some of the details that will soon arrive in this app and multimedia content store, and that there are even already some users who are benefiting from them, to collect in this entry all that set of features that will provide a better user experience, in short.
Access all the betas you want
The ones we usually follow the development of the best appsBoth third parties and Google's own, we have to go through certain steps to get into a beta, which will allow us to receive first those little details that can change the way a user interacts with their favorite application.
This is where Google wants to improve the options that you have with this series of news:
- The apps will have their own card in the Play Store that you will allow you to participate and leave a beta anytime
- Those applications that only exist as beta will appear in search results from the Play Store
- Users will finally have the option to send feedback privately from the same store when they are participating in the beta
- Google Play Early Access is a new section of its own that will show the next apps that are about to be launched and are in beta phase
The app collections
There are a way to find high-quality apps And this is to look at the two options that Google gives with apps related to the one we have installed. This is where Google wants to improve the user experience with a new system that has been called "Collections" and that will be in charge of recommending apps that may interest you.
A great option so that you can find the best apps and do not stay some between the great ocean which is right now the Google Play Store when you want to find a new one that has something that interests you.
What's new for developers
Better tools for developers means they can focus on products and features that are more consistent to the trends or needs of the users themselves. These tools depend on Google and it is where certain aspects have been improved.
Pre-launch report
A feature that must be activated manually from the developers panel and with which you will be able to know certain problems or bugs before the application is finally launched.
It is mainly based on the new Firebase platform which serves to give a summary of problems, inopportune closings, possible vulnerabilities and provide screenshots of the app under different languages, screen resolutions and even the Android version.
The fact that everything goes perfect at launch of an app is vital for it to get the best scores and reviews in the first weeks. On the other hand, a disastrous one in which there are bugs and problems that tarnish the experience of using the app will lead to total failure, even if the developer is able to solve them.
Review improvements
We can indicate two new arrivals. The Reply To Review API and the new benchmarks in the Developer Console. It is in the latter where you can see what the users of your app think if it is compared with similar ones in the store. This includes indices for design, stability, updates, performance and more.
Another novelty is related to the data that will be offered in order to make a better decision in future updates. The developer will know which countries are where the app is being most popular and those benchmarks mentioned. This data will be collected from a special report.
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