Google Play Developer Newsletter | App bundle improvements, new in-app review API, and more

What's new on Android and Google Play

View as webpage August 2020 Google Play Week recap Get the highlights from Play's week during 11 Weeks of Android, including: • Android App Bundle: learn about improvements to dynamic delivery and the requirement for new apps in H2 2021. • In-app review API: leverage the new API so users can seamlessly leave ratings and reviews within your app. READ RECAP What else is new on Google Play • Play Console 2-Step Verification: protect your account with a second layer of security. It will be mandatory later this year. • Google Play Pass: if your app has in-app subscriptions, you can now nominate your titles to join. NEW PLAY CONSOLE BETA Webinars about the new Play Console Welcome to your new Play Console Release with confidence Grow your audience What's new on Android In our final #11WeeksOfAndroid, we're focused on UI. Learn about new UI capabilities in Android 11, like IME animations, and dive into Android's new UI toolkit, Jetpack Compose. Reddit AMA: join us for a #RedditAMA this Thursday, August 27th starting at 12:00PM PDT. Ask us your burning questions about Jetpack and Jetpack Compose. 11 WEEKS OF ANDROID Upcoming Google Play and Android deadlines • Target API level - Android 10 (API level 29): • November 2, 2020: all app updates, excluding Wear OS apps, must target at least Android 10 (API level 29). • Account Hold and Restore: • November 1, 2020: all apps that use in-app subscriptions must support Account Hold and Restore. • November 1, 2020: all subscriptions will be automatically opted into Pause and Resubscribe unless these features are proactively turned off in Google Play Console. UPCOMING DEADLINES Featured Medium articles Best practices for implementing Play Billing How Illyon transformed and diversified their revenue stream Increase app quality with Firebase and Google Play Introducing ChromeOS.dev An open-source PWA and a multilingual blueprint to build world-class apps and games for Chrome OS. Hear latest news, browse through product announcements, technical documentation and code samples from popular apps. LEARN MORE Google Assistant Developer Day A virtual event, on October 8th to learn about new announcements from our product teams and hear directly from partners and developers about their experience building for Google Assistant. REGISTER TODAY Play Academy: Releasing an app on Google Play To help you manage the critical tasks of testing your app before release, setting the right device targeting, and managing and monitoring updates in the testing and production tracks in real-time, we've reworked the core Google Play Console user journeys to better meet your publishing needs. Learn how these changes can affect you. LAUNCH PLAY ACADEMY Thanks for tuning in, The Google Play team ARCHIVE  |  SUBSCRIBE Connect with us Did you find this newsletter useful? © 2020 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.