Google today is announcing strengthened protections for Android developers publishing apps to its Google Play store. The changes are a part of Google's
What I don’t get from the article and announcement is how exactly does the testing works. Are you supposed to find 20 people that volunteer to test your app on your own, or can you just publish it as an in-testing app on the Store? What if it’s a small app and you can’t find the 20 people to test it?
I don’t really understand what problems Google is trying to solve with all the changes to the Play Store in these last few years. As a user, the problem is not low quality apps that haven’t been tested. It’s low quality copy pasted “free” apps that use the most despicable dark patterns. It’s not moderating questionable content like normalizing police violence (created right after the BLM protests).
What I don’t get from the article and announcement is how exactly does the testing works. Are you supposed to find 20 people that volunteer to test your app on your own, or can you just publish it as an in-testing app on the Store? What if it’s a small app and you can’t find the 20 people to test it?
I don’t really understand what problems Google is trying to solve with all the changes to the Play Store in these last few years. As a user, the problem is not low quality apps that haven’t been tested. It’s low quality copy pasted “free” apps that use the most despicable dark patterns. It’s not moderating questionable content like normalizing police violence (created right after the BLM protests).