The AppBrain SDK and Google Play policy changes

TL;DR: Google updated its Google Play policies and we updated the AppBrain SDK to be fully compliant with the policies. Apps with older SDK versions need to upgrade to version 16.00 or later before June 28.

The Google Play Referrer API and the AppBrain SDK

Market shares for Android phones and tablets on AppBrain

Researching phone market shares became easier today: AppBrain now shows country distributions for popular Android devices.

Let’s take the Samsung Galaxy S8 and the Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 as examples which are…

AppBrain Automatic Interstitials: easily control ad placement in your Android app

Target specific users with AppBrain’s CPI boosts

Do you ever wish you could target your CPI campaigns more precisely at users who will engage with your app? Or that you can get impressions specifically for users who are more likely to make in-app payments, for instance users on tablets?

This…

Google Play policy update — incentivized installs forbidden

Google has released an updated version of the Google Play policy. The most impactful change is that incentivized installs are now forbidden:

Cheaper app promotion in many countries

Promoting your app at AppBrain has become cheaper for many countries in the world. It is…