Google is starting to deploy a change on its Play Store: on the page of an application you want to download, the store will be able to tell you if there are crashes with it among other users with the same smartphone or the same tablet. What to know if his device is powerful enough or not to run the game of the moment for example.
An example of a horrible feeling is when you spend time downloading a video game on your mobile phone, you pass the loading screen and… it drags. In addition to being frustrating, it wastes our time. To solve this problem, the Play Store will tell you if this or that application tends to stop on your smartphone or touch pad. This even though the application store will be more discreet on Android 14.
A welcome update to the Play Store
This is Android expert Mishaal Rahman reporting the change to the Play Store – via Android Police. It indicates that some users have an alert message when they want to install certain apps, something they have never seen before. In another tweet, he specifies that other mentions of the change had already been shown, including a first in October. We can think that the deployment is done more widely now, after a test phase with a limited number of users.
Some users are reporting that Google Play is telling them that “recent data from similar devices indicators that this app may stop working on your device.”
I haven’t seen this before, so I think it could be relatively new.
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— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 2, 2023
A statement shared by Android Policewhich recalls that the goal was to collect data on how often apps crashed not only among users, but also when they exhibited annoying multi-second hangs. Google had set thresholds at 1% for these two aspects, all devices combined. But for similar devices, the triggering of this message is fixed at 8% crashes.
The message that appears in red indicates that ” recent data from similar devices shows that this app may stop working on your device “. This does not mean that the application will not be usable at all, but simply that there are probabilities of crashes or untimely slowdowns.
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