Posted by Kurt Williams, Product Supervisor, Google Play
We’re excited to announce a brand new function that can provide help to to extend the rollout velocity of app updates and meet Play’s high quality bar. On telephones and tablets working Android 7.0 (SDK stage 24) and above, the Play Retailer will immediate customers to replace your app if it crashes within the foreground and a extra steady model is obtainable. This can scale back your user-perceived crash price.
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| The Play Retailer can now routinely immediate customers to replace your app after a person seen crash. |
What it is advisable do: nothing!
These new prompts don’t require any integration by you and are enabled routinely when Play determines {that a} newer model of your app has a statistically related, decrease crash price. Moreover, because the dialog is proven by the Play Retailer and never your app, the replace immediate may be proven even when your app crashes on startup.
Information pushed enchancment over time
There are a number of thresholds we have in mind, which we’ll tune over time to attain one of the best final result. These embrace:
- Consumer exercise stage of an app model in line with Vitals to make sure now we have statistical relevance
- Foreground crash price of an app model and of its newer model
- Variety of occasions a immediate may be proven for every model of your app on a tool, if the person doesn’t select to replace
We imagine that this new function will assist your customers replace to one of the best accessible model of your app, and provide help to ship one of the best expertise to your customers.
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