Google Play PolicyBytes - April 2023 policy updates

Theresa, Product Marketing Manager for Android and Google Play, shares important updates from our April 2023 Google Play policy announcements.
Chapters:
00:28 - 2023 Initiatives
03:52 - Account Deletion Requirement
06:40 - Foreground Services (FGS)
08:26 - User-Initiated Data Transfer Jobs
09:26 - User Ratings, Review, and Installs
10:09 - SDK Requirements
10:53 - Target API Level Requirements
11:28 - Timeline
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[@JoseAntonioDeDiosMedina]

Spain?

[@ozgurcelebi6368]

turkish??????????????????*

[@aadhikaavya]

Hindi?

[@emmaamelia5673]

Urdu ?

[@VLADMOTIVATES]

Barbarian????

[@RakibulHasan-gn5qn]

I Don't know why Google Doing this😡😡
In Every week there is a new update.. After completing one and next week again new update.. Iam frustrated 😡😡

[@stuboy78]

I have a app developed in VB6 that still runs on Windows 10. Microsoft is far better than these policy makers.

[@iAmKilljoy]

Serious question: what happens if I don't update my app to these standards? I understand if I want to push a new update the whole thing needs to comply, but what if I don't touch the version I already published to the Play Store? Do you take it off the Play Store?

[@stuboy78]

Google : We want the world to be safe so we screw developers happiness with changed policies every few months that wont let apps developed last week work today...
Also Google : You can watch any video on RUclips that makes no sense as long as you tick "Im above 13"

[@nimbalabsinc8052]

Are analytics and crashlytics info too considered as data associated with the account?

[@mdev5825]

OK, and what about you ! do you allow developers to delete their google play account ?

[@sandwichtube]

Please provide documentation / template on how to create a web based link to delete a Firebase account. What code do you put into the website? Thanks.

[@bolebolo]

let's change and add new things every single day, let's make programmer suffer... let's force them to change things constantly and they can't learn and achieve all the things we change and add every day. Congratulationsto Google !!!!! rape us

[@aff-rayhan4776]

Please make Google play gifts cards for Bangladeshi Google play store users. We like this features because it's very very easy method to purchase any games items or any paid apps.

[@spwebconnect]

2 application account got terminated before expiring 30 days of notifications from policy update why are you are doing this with us at least allow us to update chages also need clear understanding for chanegs

[@jopadjr]

83rd... Thanks

[@blue6980]

this thing is awful , a startup with a team of only 3 people have to do extra work every week to comply cause the almighty google choose to do an update every week .

[@Henriette-vg1tp]

With 3 people you're lucky. I'm one person, full job on the side, app revenue is zero. What's the point of trying to build something in the Android ecosystem anymore?

[@greifmatthias]

@@Henriette-vg1tp exactly the same over here. Was in the middle of a big update with features users requested, random mail from google hi 2 weeks blabla else app removed from playstore. need to cut corners in this big update last minute because of some policy changes .. again

[@namcancode2181]

Hard to way

[@Henriette-vg1tp]

So now Google is making it mandatory for an app to have an associated website, just so we can tell the user how to delete? And how exactly do we do this when everything is Firebase? Will I need to learn JavaScript now so I can make website with actual functionality to delete the user data, instead of just providing an email address so the user can get in touch for deletion? Yet another stab in the back for us indie developers!! You seriously don't want us to contribute to the Android ecosystem anymore, do you? Have you secretly been infested with appleitis or something?

[@aashutoshrimal]

Now it sounds more like IOS APP STORE.