Posted by Kurt Williams, Product Supervisor, Google Play
We’re excited to announce a brand new function that can show you how to to extend the rollout velocity of app updates and meet Play’s high quality bar. On telephones and tablets operating Android 7.0 (SDK degree 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 accessible. This may cut back your user-perceived crash price.
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| The Play Retailer can now mechanically immediate customers to replace your app after a consumer seen crash. |
What it is advisable do: nothing!
These new prompts don’t require any integration by you and are enabled mechanically 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.
Knowledge pushed enchancment over time
There are just a few thresholds we keep in mind, which we are going to tune over time to attain the very best consequence. These embrace:
- Person exercise degree of an app model in response to Vitals to make sure now we have statistical relevance
- Foreground crash price of an app model and of its newer model
- Variety of instances a immediate may be proven for every model of your app on a tool, if the consumer doesn’t select to replace
We imagine that this new function will assist your customers replace to the very best obtainable model of your app, and show you how to ship the very best expertise to your customers.
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