What's new on Android and Google Play
| | | Get your app ready for Android 11 | The latest Platform Stability release brings final app-facing surfaces and behaviors, helping users control their smart devices, and giving them even more control over sensitive permissions. Update any third-party libraries to make sure your app is prepared before the OS release in the fall. | | | | | What's new on Google Play | | 11 weeks of Android: tune into the App Distribution & Monetization week (August 3-7, 2020) for the latest on Google Play. | | | Play Console webinars & live Q&A (August 4-6, 2020): set a reminder to get deep dives on the new Play Console beta and an opportunity to ask questions to the product team. | | | | Play seller support expanded: including Bhutan, Central African Republic, Eritrea, Equatorial Guinea, and Guinea-Bissau since June 30, 2020. | | | | | Videos: New in Play Console | | | | | Play Console guides | Help achieve your goals with these new resources: | | | | | | | | | | Apps & Games Community Insights | As an app or game developer, we invite you to help guide the future of Google Play by joining the US-based research community. If selected, you'll have the opportunity to give biweekly feedback on new and existing efforts to improve Google Play products and services. To apply, please fill out this short survey. | | | | | Meet the winners | Congratulations to the winners of the Google Play Indie Games Festival in Europe, Japan, and South Korea. Their games impressed the jury with their storytelling, visual excellence, and creativity. | | | | | Google Play Policy update | Review the latest policies for enhancing user trust and safety with regards to news, AR location anchoring, Families Ads, "All Files Access," and Mobile Unwanted Software. | | | | Upcoming Google Play and Android deadlines | | | November 1, 2020: All apps that use in-app subscriptions must support Account Hold and Restore. | | | At the same time, all subscriptions will be automatically opted into Pause and Resubscribe unless these features are proactively turned off in Google Play Console. | | | | August 3, 2020: new apps must target at least Android 10 (API level 29). | | | November 2, 2020: all app updates must target at least Android 10 (API level 29). | | | | | | | Games Business Fundamentals: new courses | Learn how to map and monitor diverse revenue streams in the latest courses on Games Business Fundamentals, the new Play Academy path about games design and business growth. | | | | | | Did you find this newsletter useful? | | | | | | | |