Google Play Looks to Rehash…
3 Ways Google Play Looks to Rehash Modern App and Game Distribution
The distribution of an app on the Google Play store largely contributes to the success of the same. With hundreds of thousands of apps now populating the App Store, the developers behind the Google Play are looking to make the store more flexible. With modern app development tools such as the Android Studio, developers can easily build more robust and functional apps to cater to a broader audience. These days, one can even avail 3rd party apps for the system such as mobile tracker apps, or camera apps with expansive in-built image filter libraries.
How is the Google Play store evolving?
Modern apps and games have thus leapt leagues ahead of their predecessors for older builds of the Android OS. The distribution of these modern apps and games is a real concern for developers who want to break through the burgeoning sea of apps and rank among the editor’s choicest. The Google Play store is thus being revamped by its generous developers who want to make modern app distribution easier, customizable and powerful.
To be precise, the Google Play store, in itself is very much going to look and feel the same. However, with the help of a few tools and tweaks the developers behind the store are going to evolve the Android app development sector:
i. Real-time analytics tools
Thanks to the integration of new tools, such as the Android App Bundle which has been a pioneering development IDE launch for modern Android developers, developers can take better decisions when developing apps. Take for example, the aforementioned free mobile tracker app; unless you have enough storage on your phone, you may not be able to install the app and use it, defeating the developer’s purpose.
With the new Play Console integration, developers can check app size metrics reports, and find out which of their users have uninstalled due to the lack of space. Thus, the tool helps developers find out the realistic target demographic for their app, with intuitive, actionable data. Nifty, right?
ii. Tools of the development trade
Testing apps obviously leads you to develop better apps, by fine-tuning the coding. However, testing could not get further easier with the new internal app sharing tools in the Android App Bundle. With internal app sharing, any member of your team can launch test build versions as easily as sharing final build APKs. Extending on the example of the mobile tracker app, developers can release test versions for different android smart-device models in a systematic fashion.
For this, you do not even have to continuously implement version codes or product signing keys. Not only does this mean better collaboration within development teams. Essentially, developers have sped up workflows and development timescales.
iii. Improved app update features
With the new Android App Bundle you can build apps with in-app update features. In erstwhile iterations of Android apps, leaving the app to update its version was a nagging feature that drew complaints from a lot of users.
But, now, users can update your app, without having to minimize or exit the same. Developers can decide whether the update is immediately necessary for installation or can be allowed for installation at the users convenience. Users can also stay abreast of the app update progress. Internal app-sharing also allows you to test the in-app update feature of your app!
Thus, if anything, then the distribution of your app on the Google Play store can only get easier from here.
