The Play Store new policies and guidelines that will improve app quality and discovery for users.
Firstly, the company declared if the app title, icon and developer name does not match the upcoming policy, it will not be allowed on the Google Play Store.
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“Since your app title, icon, and the developer name are the most important discovery elements on your store listing page, we are preparing to launch a new set of policies to keep these elements recognizable and unique,” Google said on Friday.
Google came up with new policies which involve restricting the length of app titles. That should not be more than 30 characters. The developer cannot promote its app icon itself. Graphic elements that mislead users in the app icon will also be restricted.
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As per Google, the benefits that you provide to the store images, video, titles, descriptions even, your app name itself is essential to users choosing on what to download.
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When Google Play was launched, back in 2008, it was easy for developers to come to notice. With only a few hundred apps and games available on the Play Store. As the traffic grew more fake apps came into existence, now Google Play has millions of apps and games available to users in over 190 countries.
Although we are not sure about more details about this policy change, including implementation dates. That will arrive later this year.
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