Developer Newsletter: New Play Console Data and Best Practices to Grow Globally

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New Play Console data to help you make stronger decisions Revamped metrics to help you better understand acquisition and churn. For the first time, we're providing data on returning users and devices, install methods, and churn types to help with your growth strategies and business reporting. LEARN MORE FEATURED MEDIUM POSTS Winning in emerging markets Winning in emerging markets Now in Android blog series: Episode 1 - Kotlin, AndroidX, Blueprints, and ADS Now in Android blog series: Episode 1 - Kotlin, AndroidX, Blueprints, and ADS Patterns for accessing code from dynamic feature modules Patterns for accessing code from dynamic feature modules What's new on Android • Android Q Beta 6 launch: the final beta before the consumer release, to help test your apps for compatibility and get familiar with the latest privacy features and behavior changes. • Android Studio 3.5 stable launch: with increased stability and performance. This release focuses on fundamentals, fixing critical bugs and reworking important features such as Instant Run, now called Apply Changes. LATEST ANDROID STUDIO What's new on Google Play • Target audience and content form in Google Play Console by September 1st: all existing apps must fill in the new target audience and content section of the Google Play Console and comply with our new policies. • Pause subscription report: get new insights including the length users paused for and whether they returned or churned at the end of their pause period. LAUNCH GOOGLE PLAY CONSOLE Best practices to grow globally Check out these best practices on expanding your app or game business to new markets. • How to find success in emerging markets: tips from top partners based in mature markets. • Localization best practices to expand your business to Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Japan and Korea. READ MORE Android Developer Story: Jagex brings Runescape from PC to mobile Hear how Runescape Old School, a longstanding PC franchise with a huge community following, was brought to mobile using subscriptions to increase revenue and engagement with existing players. WATCH NOW Find a Kotlin/Everywhere event near you Kotlin/Everywhere is a series of community-led events where you can learn the essentials and best practices of Kotlin in Android, Google Cloud Platform, and multi-platform development. Over 250 global events have already been planned and more are being added regularly. SIGN UP Registration for Firebase Summit is open Join us in Madrid to learn how Firebase can help your mobile and web teams build, improve, and grow your app. Enjoy technical deep dives and be the first to hear our latest updates. REGISTER NOW Announcing Flutter 1.7 Flutter 1.7 contains support for AndroidX and for updated Play Store requirements, a number of new and enhanced components, and bug fixes to customer-reported issues. READ NOW Flutter Create's big winner is a self-taught 'beginner' Zebiao Hu taught himself how to use Flutter in one month. Then he took home the grand prize for Futter Create, which challenged developers to build an app using less than 5 kilobytes of code. READ NOW Navigating Android vitals The Android vitals dashboards allows you to receive alerts and access detailed information about your app, identifying performance details and allowing for informed decisions on how to improve its performance. LAUNCH THE PLAY ACADEMY Thanks for tuning in, The Google Play team Archive  |  Subscribe Connect with us Did you find this newsletter useful? © 2019 Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA This message was sent to ndrdnws.androidnews@blogger.com because you asked us to keep you up to date with news and tips from Google Play. If you do not wish to receive these emails, please unsubscribe.