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    Did Google Play just revise their ranking algorithm? Installs suddenly dropped as far as 67% Android Dev

    Did Google Play just revise their ranking algorithm? Installs suddenly dropped as far as 67% Android Dev


    Did Google Play just revise their ranking algorithm? Installs suddenly dropped as far as 67%

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 02:29 AM PST

    Did Google Play just revise their ranking algorithm? Installs suddenly dropped as far as 67%

    One of my apps did quite good over the past months in terms of install growth and generated revenue. During the past month I saw a 30% increase in downloads.

    On 10th December I saw I slight decrease (about 10%) which appeared to be a normal fluctuation. As it turns out it was not because on 13th December my daily installs dropped by 67%. This also did happen two months ago but after one day the installs were almost back to normal and recovered since then. But this time it's different. The install drop persists for three days and I assume it won't just disappear.

    My users mostly come from Germany, Italy, Mexico, Brazil and the U.S.

    I checked the ranking change index for these countries on AppTweak. And there's indeed a significant anomaly between 10th and 13th December.

    Ranking change in the U.S. (AppTweak)

    I'm glad that my income is largely not only dependant on Google Play because it was cut in half because of the install drop. I'd be probably starving now.

    Did any of you experience a similar phenome? And does any of you have advice of what I should do in order to get my daily installs back to normal.

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    Dealing with bad reviews on the Play Store

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 06:42 AM PST

    I have an application on the Play Store with about 3000 active users and an average score of 4.2. This application uses the accessibility service and I have set up a privacy policy that stipulates that I do not collect personal data. I even mention that my application does not have access to the Internet and therefore could not do anything with this data.

    Here's my problem: a user gave me a one-star rating and claims that my application is made to steal credit card numbers. It seems obvious that he is ignorant and has not understood the system alert message that appears when the accessibility service is activated.
    I replied by telling him that he was completely wrong, but he persists and says that Google must be notified.

    I hesitate to report the review to Google because it is objectively malicious and comes from a user who doesn't understand anything but I'm afraid it will be misinterpreted and will only make the problem worse.

    Do you have any advice on what to do in these cases?

    submitted by /u/toneiv
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    Normal Review / Download rate

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 01:45 PM PST

    I just saw a new app with 10k+ downloads (Less than 50k) and almost 2k reviews whereas my app has almost 150k downloads and only 1200 reviews. The other app has nothing special and that's why i think those could be fake reviews. Both apps have 4.5+ score. What do you think?

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    AndroidDevChallenge'2019

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 11:22 AM PST

    Hey, Anybody's idea shortlisted for this year AndroidDevChallenge?

    submitted by /u/AghaSaad
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    Help an idiot out.

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 03:57 PM PST

    This has probably been posted a million times, so for that I apologize, and this might not be the right subreddit for it, so again I apologize.

    I have an idea for an app, that I've researched and found a need for in my demographic and geographic area. However, I am incompetent when it comes to IT and development. I cant say I've put a ton of effort in, but looking at the amount of information I would need to learn to become competent against what I can learn in a few hours (which is zero, because I get no where) I quickly realize the way I am doing it isnt going to work.

    Not at all blaming it, but I grew up with dial up internet and as much as computer science as a field interested me, i quickly got my teeth kicked in when trying to learn it in late highschool/ early college.

    Where can I find courses or information to start from scratch where they will ELi5 all the information. I have no problem paying for it, but I do work full time so I cant quit and enroll in a coding class.

    Or, where can I find someone to partner with that can make the app for/with me without them just taking the potential company. Side note, I realize not everyone is a jerk and would just steal the idea, but still.

    Thanks for the help

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    Cheap phones to buy for testing?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 03:28 PM PST

    My app is nearly ready for production and I'd like to improve testing by buying a 3rd Android phone.

    I currently have a Google Pixel 4 and Samsung S8. What's a good 3rd phone to buy?

    submitted by /u/GerrardSlippedHahaha
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    var timesStarted by persisted.Int(0) - Easily persisting vars backed by Android's SharedPreferences through the use of delegates.

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 01:58 PM PST

    Build a Survey App Advice

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 01:44 PM PST

    Hello everyone, im looking to create a survey app and i want to create the questions in a dynamic way inside the app by the user soo i wonder what could be the best way to do it.

    I have tested to build each question as a fragment then show them all in single activity but the coordination between them was to hard then i switch to the listview i let the user fill the info about the questions in a specific activity then i inflate the question to the list that regroups all the questions and show each item based on the type of question using a fixed layout for each type

    *** so what will be your approach to realize a similar app???

    Any suggestions will be helpful - thanks.

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    Someone stole my app

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 07:31 AM PST

    I have an app published on Play Store for a little more than year now.

    A couple of months ago, I received a warning in my AdMob dashboard stating:

    Ad serving is disabled in one or more of your apps because of a policy violation.

    I went to see in Policy Center and it's NOT my app, basically someone downloaded the apk of my app, changed the package name and re-uploaded it to his Play Store account, while it [the app] still had MY admob ids in it.

    I tried to find a way to contact Google about it, but all I could find is "How to appeal", I don't want to do that as the app is not mine. So i did nothing.

    His account was deleted, and the warning disappeared after a day or two. but it keeps reappearing (Supposedly because his app still has a few users and still generates Admob requests) every once in while (Like every 2-3 weeks).

    How can I contact Google and clarify the situation ?

    submitted by /u/BenjieWheeler
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    App updated rejected due to Violation of Families Policy? But I didn't update the app.

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 07:49 AM PST

    I have a few apps that have few downloads. Since the developer Google account is different from my personal Google account, I only read the e-mails to my developer account from time to time. I just checked the developer e-mails and found this e-mail below from about two months ago.

    My question is, was that "review" done by a human? Or was it some kind of automated A.I. nonsense? I don't think I updated the app, and I don't remember whether I updated some of the meta data such as rating due to those warnings that told me to re-apply ratings or whatnot for their new family rule or something, which seemed useless because my app had no NSWF content whatsoever.

    I checked the "rejected" app's description, and the length was about a thousand characters. That isn't excessive, is it? Since the app is completely free without any monetisation and mainly created for my own use (but uploaded to the Play Store to help others), I kind of wrote the description a little bit personally. But I can't think of anything "misleading", "irrelevant", or "excessive". The problem of the e-mail below is that it is not telling me what exactly is wrong... The only thing that MIGHT be irrelevant is that in the last part of the description, I had written that I might add more features in the future if this app becomes popular. But can that really be a reason for which an app can be removed from the Store? I could remove that sentence and try re-submitting the description, but then if that was not the "policy-violating" part, I could get another strikes for deception or something. I had such an experience before. I thought the description was the reason of rejection so I edited the description and resubmitted it, but I got a "Deception" policy strike instead, because it was the app's name for which it was rejected in the first place. I eventually got re-instatated after contacting Google's support, though.


    Publishing status: Rejected

    After review, your app has been rejected and wasn't published due to a policy violation. If you submitted an update, the previous version of your app is still available on Google Play. However, the previous version of your app may be subject to removal if you do not resolve the issue outlined below.

    Issue: Violation of Families Policy Requirements

    Apps that contain elements that appeal to children must comply with all Families Policy Requirements. We found the following issue(s) with your app:

    Version(s) APK:1

    Eligibility Issue Metadata

    We don't allow apps with misleading, irrelevant, excessive, or inappropriate metadata, including but not limited to the app's description, developer name, title, icon, screenshots, and promotional images. Your app must include metadata text and images that accurately reflect the app experience.

    submitted by /u/evolution2015
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    Admob ads

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 06:38 AM PST

    Is it possible to obtain more revenue from ads if your app is suitable for under 18 people?

    submitted by /u/sermolday
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    Modularization - Comunication between feature modules

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 08:49 AM PST

    Hey guys, how are you? During several discussions about modularized architecture and feature-module communication, Alex Soares (https://github.com/AlexSoaresDeSiqueira) and me (https://github.com/jeziellago) always hit the same key to make communication clean, simple, and that each feature-module could communicate with another without having to know each other, but Most approaches always led to various communication failures. So we decided to create a lib to ease all these problems, so we created FlowNav, a lib that came to facilitate all this communication work between feature-modules. Take a look there, we are accepting contributions so open PR's 😁. Fill free for contact me or Alex for anything. This is FlowNav repo: https://github.com/jeziellago/FlowNav

    submitted by /u/jeziellago
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    [Realm] Extending an object extending RealmObject gives compilation error.

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 07:54 AM PST

    Ok, I have class called BookData which exends RealmObject, and class Chapter which extends class A. I'm getting the following compilation error:

    error: Valid model classes must either extend RealmObject or implement RealmModel. 

    I'm stumped as to why this is happening, since through inheritance this should work.

    submitted by /u/Dokramuh
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    Can I use bitly links in my app to track users?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 06:39 AM PST

    I googled everywhere and found no answer.

    Can I use bitly links in my app and if someone clicks on my link it will redirect users to my website or social media and track what browser and what country they're from?

    Or that is something we are not allowed to do?

    submitted by /u/SteamGuard
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    Is it okay to post our discord support link within the playstore description of our games ?

    Posted: 14 Dec 2019 11:26 PM PST

    So i heard from someone it is a good idea to post discord links in the game description to facilitate easier communication with our players and i can get feedback to improve and update my game clearly. I think it is a great idea, but i just want to make sure it is 100% safe within googles terms and conditions. Is putting up discord links a common thing among other developers ? and is it safe for me add it in my game description ?

    Thanks

    submitted by /u/codehawk64
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    Any Android Image Processing library?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 02:07 AM PST

    I would like to include an image processing library into my app that includes shadow/highlight adjustment, cropping and lighten/mean filter instead of just simple brightness/contrast/saturation sliders. Please recommend if there is any.

    submitted by /u/behwc
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    Why does Android Studio keep installing multiple SDK build tools without asking?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 12:39 AM PST

    Why does Android Studio keep installing multiple SDK build tools without asking?

    In the past it always asked me if it's ok to install. Now it keeps installing those without asking:

    https://preview.redd.it/9p5apumeer441.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=baa65ec7e33b0fb2cda0a9b1bff81a31c516ecc2

    Each time I remove the old ones, they come back later, probably when I open some "old" projects from some Github repositories.

    I don't even get why it needs those. It should have an option to always use just a single one (the latest), just like any other normal component...

    submitted by /u/AD-LB
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    What is some creative way to build a basic support ticket system app?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 03:02 AM PST

    I'm looking to test an app idea and looking for an open-source app which I can use the code, or source code for sale that simply a user will create an account, then create a new ticket, then I answer it, then the user can comment on my comment then I comment on their comment haha and so on. A user is able to create many tickets and each ticket will have a different number.

    The app idea is simply I answer my online students' questions thought an app. Any open-source code I can modify and use for this task? I don't code but I will find someone who can help to modify it.

    Is the solution I'm looking for is right for the task I need? It seems that I need some sort of support ticket source code so I can use it, modify it then share it with my students on Google Play.

    I will have around 20-30 new tickets every day by users. The ticket will most likely be text-based, but the ability to attach a photo would be great.

    If I can't find some open source, on average, how much I'm expecting to pay to have something like this done?

    submitted by /u/David6543210
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    How to learn create Android apps? 14 free courses - TheStackCode

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 04:07 AM PST

    How is Awareness API not a laughing stock?

    Posted: 15 Dec 2019 03:36 AM PST

    Smart phones are packed with sensors yet on a OS level they are as context aware as a brick. So Google's solution to the problem is to create an API that requires an internet connection to broadcast an intent when users plug in their headphones?

    I understand that data mining people down to every second of their life is Google's business model but it blows my mind how gate keeping functionality that should have been OS native 10 years ago gets a pass from anyone.

    Inb4 "Just use android.intent.action.HEADSET_PLUG intent filter" lol.

    submitted by /u/lkasjhdk
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