Essential facts of Google Play Console that every developer must know

What is Google Play Console?

Google play console is not a new thing to Developers. If you are new to App Developing; Google Play Console is the only platform that apps and games publish to Google Play Store. Having a developer account is vital to publish an app in the Google Play Store.

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Creating an account

For creating an account sign up here. Creating an account is pretty simple as other accounts. Users have to pay a one-time Registration fee worth 25$ using their Debit or Credit card on the other hand, which is pretty affordable compared to other services. Make sure to use your own and constantly used Gmail account and strong password and if in case note down the email address and the password that will be useful in the future.

What are the pros of Google Play Console? 

Users can have as many developer accounts as they wish to have and using their accounts according to the guideline is the user's responsibility. If one account gets banned from the google play store, the responsible team will find every account of that user and ban those accounts also. To learn more, hang in.

Get the benefit of publishing an unlimited amount of apps and games without any charges. Service charges have been reduced to help boost developer's success as of the 2022 January 1 service fees are,

For the first $1M (USD) of the earnings service fee will be 15% for each year and For the earnings, more than $1M(USD) will be 30% each year for the developers who enrol in the15% service fee tier.

The service fee will be 30% for the developers who haven’t enrolled in the15% service fee tier. For more information Service fee as of 1 of January 2022.

Google Play Console gives a crystal clear image of how your app interacts or engages with the audience and a comparison between the apps which come under the same category. This helps to recognize what are things that should be improved to reach more audiences.

Whether it’s a beginner developer or an experienced developer Google Play Console helps to manage all the phases of publishing, manage to price, and distribute across the platform.

Developers get the golden opportunity to test their apps and collect the information and understand the performance before launching apps since the platform reached out to over one billion active users on android.

App Developers will be able to generate good revenue and without insisting on any other third-party services they can directly publish their apps and save unnecessary costs.

Developers have the ability to track app performance from any android device.  Sign in to your Google Play Console account by using your smartphone or tab or anything and you can check the number of downloads and the amount you have generated till now. Details are fingertips away.

Get the opportunity to get discovered on Google play search. You get the chance to display your name on your apps in the google playlisting.

If developers succeed on Google Play Console’s stats with good quality. That means their apps are more likely to be downloaded by many android users. The better quality is the higher their ratings and downloads will be.

If the stats say otherwise, that means the developer needs to work on the app to make it to the nine.

Before submitting an app, developers need to concentrate on a few facts, whether the apps compile these Content policies and local laws.

1. Inappropriate content

Terrorist content, Violence, Hate Speech, Bullying and Harassment, Dangerous products, Sensitive Events, sexual Content and profanity, Marijuana and Tobacco, and Alcohol come under inappropriate content.

Google play store does not allow terrorist organizations and content related to terrorism to publish their apps on the Google Play Store and does not allow apps that promote illustrate and encourage violence, hate bullying. 

If an app includes content related to anything that encourages hatred based on ethnic origin, casts, gender, race, religion, age, nationality, disability. Sexual orientation, gender identity that app will take under hate speech and do not get permission to possess further.

In addition, the Google play console does not allow apps that promote the sales of Marijuana, tobacco, and alcohol. Sexual content and profanity, pornography, or any content that promote a sexual act in exchange for payment will not get permission to publish under the content policies and local laws.

The apps which contain EDSA (Educational, Documentary, Scientific, or Artistic) will be allowed according to local laws (for some cases some apps won’t be allowed in some counties) to provide the EDSA context.

2. Child Endangerment

Apps that are supposed to use children includes Adult content 

Sexuality, excessive violence, motivates harmful and dangerous activities; those apps won’t be allowed by play Console.

In case they find out. The team will report to appropriate authorities and take the relevant action to delete the Google accounts that involve such cases.

3. Illegal activities

Google Play Store doesn’t allow apps that represent and encourage illegal activities.

4. Financial Services

They don’t allow those who are more likely to deceptive and harmful financial services and products.

As Google Play Console says “If your app includes or promotes financial services and products, you must follow the state and local regulations for any region or country”

As stated in the content policies “they don’t allow apps that contribute uses with the ability with trade binary options

5. Real money Gambling, Games, and contests

Google Play Console allows real money gambling apps, ads, and content. That is related to real money gambling, daily fantasy sports apps, and loyalty programs with gamified outcomes that meet certain demands.

Also, the authorised gambling apps with Valid licensed and the product according to the laws of the country, such as Online Casino Games, Sports Betting, Lotteries, Daily fantasy sports, Horse Racing (For some counties those games and apps aren’t visible due to the regulations of each country.  

For more details (Developer program policy)

An app follows the above content policies and local laws. Also, meet the success of Google Play Console stats with good quality, more likely to catch the audience's your app or game is good to go.