Focus on quality
Android vitals were introduced at I/O 2017 and already 65% of top
developers are using the dashboard to understand their app's performance. We're adding
five new
Android vitals and increasing device coverage to help you
address
issues relating to battery consumption, crashes, and render time. Better performing
apps are favored by Google Play's search and discovery algorithms.
We're
improving
pre-launch reports and enabling them for all developers with no need to opt-in. When
you upload an alpha or beta APK, we'll automatically install and test your app on physical,
popular devices powered by Firebase Test Lab. The report will tell you about crashes, display
issues, security vulnerabilities, and now, performance issues encountered.
When you install a new app, you expect it to open and perform normally. To ensure people
installing apps and games from Google Play have a positive experience and developers benefit
from being part of a trusted ecosystem, we are introducing a policy to disallow apps which
consistently exhibit broken experiences on the majority of devices such as crashing,
closing, freezing, or otherwise functioning abnormally.
Learn more
in the policy center.