Google has announced new guidelines for the presence of Android apps on its Play Store. The new policies expect to remove any misleading information offered through an app listing to the Play Store users. The in-transit policy changes are revolved around the information related with an app, including the app title, its icon similarly as the name of the developer. The guidelines perceive these as the “most important discovery elements” for apps on Play Store.
New guidelines for Play Store app titles
Starting with app titles, Google clarifies that it will not allow certain indications of rankings and promotions on the names of the app going on. This joins the typical demonstration of perceiving an app as “#1 on Play Store” or “top app” or even promotional pointers like “free” or “sale.”
Moreover, Play Store apps will not be allowed to have misleading elements in the title. An outline of this may be seen as apps showing “download now” in the title. The usage of CAPS, pointless remarkable characters, or emoticons will in like manner be denied with the exception of if the genuine name of the app calls for it, like that of PUBG. Google will moreover limit the length of app titles to 30 characters.
Checking preview elements
Some Play Store apps might be seen with misleading preview assets, which are, honestly, expected to give an accurate depiction of the app and its functionality. These preview assets join screenshots, trailers and more information of the app gave on the app page on the Play Store. Under its new guidelines, Google says that it will crackdown on apps that don’t follow these protocols.
The encroachment may consolidate the depiction of execution markers or promotional words like “free” or “sale” in the preview assets. It will moreover apply to misrepresentation of the app or its functions similarly as a shortfall of information gave through these assets. Google will similarly check if these preview assets are limited accurately and are not hard to scrutinize or not. Any app found to ignore these guidelines will be dismissed for “promotion and recommendation on huge Google Play surfaces” starting in the second half of 2021. To lay it out simply, these apps will not be allowed to exist on Google Play Store soon. Google will give more updates on these guidelines soon.