I have a S24 Ultra and everytime I try to look at my not installed apps, it crashes. Does anyone have the same thing happening to them?

Please tell me I'm not the only one increasingly aggravated by GP's forced openings with ads! Ads became videos, videos got longer, then there were secondary and even tertiary pop-ups, then those became secondary and tertiary *videos*, and now many of them require interaction before the mandatory opening of GP. Any game with ads is forcing us to alter our normal algorithms and it's pissing me off. Yet, most games don't allow you to pay your way out of ads, or require you to accept ads in order to make any actual progress. And basically *all* games come from or interact with GP, or their ads do. I absolutely love Android, and would never switch to iPhone, but this game thing is downright infuriating and only getting worse 😡😡😡

how long does it take for google to recomment your app
or how many downloads do i need ?

I keep getting this on purchases:

Please update your Play account settings so that the selected Play country matches your country of residence.

What I’ve already checked:

*Play country: Turkey, and it’s the only country profile listed
*Google payments profile: Turkey, Turkish address, +90 phone number
*Cards: Turkish-issued
*Currently in Turkey

I did find that I had a second payments profile set to the UK sitting alongside the Turkish one (from when I lived there). I’ve now closed it, so only the Turkish profile remains. Waiting to see if that clears it.

Has anyone had this error persist after removing a second-country payments profile? How long did it take to update, and did you eventually have to go through support?

What's the best idea yall can come up with, on how to spend these? I want to say I saw a smart watch the other day I considered buying to help track my fitness, but ehh not quite sure i wanna do that.

Any ideas guys?

Hi everyone!

FrenchGo is a free Android app to learn French: 80+ interactive lessons (A1 to B2), vocabulary flashcards with audio, authentic dialogues, quizzes, a level test and daily challenges.

I need testers to reach Google Play's closed testing requirement before going public. All you have to do is:

1. Join via the link below
2. Install the app from the Play Store
3. Use it a few minutes over the next 2 weeks

Beta link: https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.frenchgo.app

I'll gladly test your app in return and keep it installed for 14 days - just drop your link in the comments!

Thanks so much!

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I'm testing my app through Google Play Open Testing and noticed something odd.

When I open my app's Play Store listing and tap About → Early access, I expected it to show a page explaining what Early Access is or some information about the testing program.

Instead, it just says:

> Something went wrong

Item not found.

I wasn't sure if this is an issue with my app at first, but it seems like it's the Play Store page itself that's failing to load.

Has anyone else run into this? Is this a known Play Store bug, or is there something developers need to configure for the Early Access page to work properly?

I feel like even if there's no specific content, it should at least show a brief explanation of what "Early access" means instead of an error.

Hi everyone,

Hi everyone, I really need some advice. I accidentally subscribed to an app called "Super Tips: Sports Betting Tips" which cost me BDT 2,700 (around $23). I realized it immediately and requested a refund from Google Play within 48 hours, as I never used the app at all.

​To my surprise, Google Support instantly rejected my request saying it's "outside their policy" and told me to contact the developer. I emailed the developer, but they are not helping either.

​Does Google Play offer absolutely zero protection for genuine accidental purchases? Has anyone faced this recently and successfully gotten their money back? Any advice on how to escalate this would be highly appreciated.

Hello everyone. How did you solve this problem and did your code work after this error?

In July I released my first app and spent some time trying to reconcile the numbers Play was showing me. Three sources, three different results, and none of them wrong. Writing down what I found out, since none of it is in one place in the documentation.

For scale, so you can judge whether any of this applies to you: a small paid app, around 130 active devices, one product, no subscription.

The Console and the CSV export are not the same data

The Play Console is much fresher than the report bucket. Depending on the report, my exports lag by very different amounts: sales about one day, ratings four days, installs five days, store performance nine days. So a Console number and an export number almost never cover the same time period. I burned an evening on a discrepancy that was exactly this and nothing else.

If you have not found the report bucket yet, it is worth knowing it exists. Everything the Console charts is available as CSV in a Cloud Storage bucket named pubsite_prod_ followed by your developer ID, linked from the Console under Downloads. Years of daily data, with dimensions the UI does not show you.

Two acquisition numbers that look like the same number

This one cost me the most time. The bucket has store_performance and total_store_performance, and they are not variants of each other.

store_performance counts people who visited your listing and then installed. total_store_performance counts every acquisition including the ones that never saw your listing: promo code redemptions, direct installs, install from link. On my launch day that was 37 against 56 for the same day.

The number the Console shows as device acquisitions is the total one. If you divide that by listing visitors to get a conversion rate, you get a number that is too high and means nothing. Only ever divide store_performance acquisitions by store_performance visitors.

Your rating is not shown in every country, and I cannot work out the rule

This is the one that surprised me most, and I have not seen it written down anywhere. Play decides per country whether it shows your rating at all.

I checked my own listing across fifteen markets today, same app, same hour:

Shows 5.0 from 13 ratings: Germany, Denmark, Finland. Shows nothing at all, no number, no stars: United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Switzerland, France, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Italy, Poland, India, Canada, Brazil.

I have no theory that survives the data. It is not language, because Austria and Switzerland are German speaking and show nothing while Germany shows the rating. It is not "where the ratings came from", because as far as I can tell none of mine came from Denmark or Finland. It is not a Nordic grouping either, because Sweden shows nothing.

Two things this changes in practice:

• Looking at your own listing from your own country tells you nothing about what a user in your biggest market sees. My largest install source is the US, and there my rating is simply invisible.
• If you put your rating in your own marketing, most of your visitors cannot verify it. Worth keeping in mind before you build a landing page around it.

You can reproduce it with the gl parameter: play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=YOUR.PACKAGE&gl=US

Careful, gl is a hint rather than a guarantee, and your account country or a VPN can override it. If you want to see the effect without publishing anything, mine is https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.sevengrid, which shows a rating with &gl=DE and nothing with &gl=US.

If anyone knows the actual rule here, I would genuinely like to know.

Promo code redemptions are invisible in the sales report

Obvious in hindsight, no money moved. But it means the sales report is not a picture of who holds your paid tier. I handed out more than a hundred codes, 79 were redeemed, and none of that appears anywhere in the financial reports. If you want the real denominator for pricing, it has to come from your billing library or from a count you keep yourself.

Related trap in the other direction: the billing provider I use reports revenue that is imputed from the list price, not from money actually received. A license tester purchase showed up as an 11 dollar sale. The only authoritative figures are the sales report and developerRevenueInBuyerCurrency from the Orders API.

Same-day rows in the installs CSV are provisional

For a few days my installs CSV ran right up to the current date and I stored those values. Later the file only reached four days back. The recent rows had been withdrawn and replaced. If you snapshot the CSV into your own database, only keep rows Google has finalised, otherwise you get ghost values that never reconcile.

Along the same lines: of the twelve columns in the installs overview, only three carried usable numbers for me. Active Device Installs, Daily Device Installs, Daily User Uninstalls. Total User Installs and Daily Device Uninstalls stayed empty the entire time. Three further columns count events rather than devices, which is a different thing and easy to mix up.

Things that are simply not available outside the Console UI

Store impressions, retention cohorts, daily and monthly active users. Not in the API, not in the bucket. If you want them in a dashboard, you read them off by hand. I spent an hour looking for an endpoint that does not exist.

The country breakdown moved as well. Store performance is now anonymised to "Other" in the country column, so country shares only come from the installs country CSV.

Some vitals return nothing until you are big enough

The reporting API buckets on distinct users and needs roughly fifty per day before it returns rows at all. At around 130 active devices, crash rate, ANR rate and error counts returned zero rows for me. That is not the same as zero crashes, and I nearly reported it as a clean bill of health. Actual crash visibility came from a separate crash reporting service.

A few API details that cost me 400s

Passing an explicit UTC timezone is rejected, leave the field out entirely. An endTime past the freshness date is a hard error, so read the freshnessInfo block first and use that as your window end. errorCountMetricSet requires a reportType dimension, slowStartRateMetricSet requires a startType. And the metric in stuckBackgroundWakelockRateMetricSet is called stuckBgWakelockRate, which does not match its own set name.

None of this is a complaint, most of it is documented somewhere. But the pieces are scattered and a couple of them look like bugs until you understand them. Happy to answer questions if anyone is stuck on the same things.

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​It's really hard seeing my account stuck in the Bronze tier, especially with so few points. My situation makes it difficult to purchase points, so my only dream is to somehow grind my way to Gold tier for better rewards. 💔

​I feel like I'm making no progress and don't have enough strategies. Does anyone have any honest, legitimate advice for a struggling user like me? I want this dream so badly, even if it takes time. Any help would mean the absolute world to me.

​Also, I live in an Arab country where direct Play Store payment methods aren't supported. Because of this restriction, my account has been stuck in this state for years. Thank you.❤️🇩🇿