Posted by Steve Suppe, Product Supervisor, Google Play and Manuel Wang, Product Supervisor, Google Play; Ashley Marshall, UX Writing Lead, Google Play
Google Play Console is continually evolving to enhance the way you handle and publish your apps. We all know that launch moments are actually necessary to you. Whether or not that is launching a brand new model of your app, or updating your retailer itemizing – you want the appropriate instruments that will help you launch with confidence.
One problem you’ve shared with us is an absence of predictability and management over the app overview course of. Beforehand, it was exhausting to foretell which modifications can be despatched to Google for overview, and which modifications can be revealed instantly. There was additionally no technique to ship a number of modifications for overview collectively, for instance, for those who wished to replace your app concurrently considered one of your retailer itemizing screenshots.
Because of your suggestions, we’re making some modifications to present you extra flexibility and management over the app overview course of.
Management when modifications are despatched to Google for overview
On the Publishing overview web page in Play Console, you’ll quickly see a brand new part referred to as “Adjustments able to ship for overview.” Everytime you save a change in Play Console that’s topic to overview, will probably be listed right here – as an alternative of it being robotically despatched for overview. You may then ship these modifications for overview collectively, everytime you’re prepared.
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| On the Publishing overview web page in Play Console, you’ll quickly see a brand new “Adjustments able to ship for overview” part the place your modifications might be saved so that you can ship for overview. |
How this works with managed publishing
When you ship modifications to Google for overview, they will seem within the “Adjustments in overview” part on the Publishing overview web page.
When you’ve got managed publishing turned on, these modifications will seem within the “Able to publish” part as quickly as they’re permitted. You may then publish these modifications everytime you’re prepared.
When you’ve got managed publishing turned off, modifications might be revealed robotically as quickly as they’re permitted. We suggest turning managed publishing on whenever you need extra management over app modifications or want to push an app replace stay at a particular time.
Take away modifications which might be able to publish or in overview
To offer you much more flexibility, we’re additionally including the flexibility so that you can take away modifications which have already been despatched for overview, or which might be able to publish.
Adjustments you take away will as soon as once more seem within the “Adjustments able to ship for overview” part.
The way it works
Here is an instance of how we expect these new modifications will add predictability and management to your app publishing course of, and the way they’ll allow extra versatile workflows.
Think about you could have a serious replace to your app that is because of go stay and requires a number of modifications to occur on the identical time, resembling publishing a brand new launch, updating your retailer itemizing screenshots, and making modifications to your Knowledge security type. Here is how this might look with all the new enhancements that we have made in Play Console.
1. Make modifications to your app, retailer itemizing, and Knowledge security type in Play Console
You may make modifications to all the totally different components of your app at your personal tempo, with confidence that these modifications will not be despatched for overview or revealed till you are prepared.
2. Ship modifications for overview whenever you’re prepared
On the Publishing overview web page, you may now see all the modifications which were made. You may ship them for overview collectively whenever you resolve you’re prepared.
3. Take away modifications for those who’ve made a mistake
Think about that you’ve got made a change to one thing else accidentally, or your advertising crew has instructed you that among the screenshots you initially uploaded must be modified. On the Publishing overview web page, now you can take away these modifications from the overview, make any crucial updates, and ship the modifications for overview – once more.
4. Publish in keeping with your schedule with managed publishing
Plans change on a regular basis. Think about that your advertising crew tells you that your launch date has been delayed by every week. Or, what if you do not need your modifications to go stay on a weekend, when nobody is within the workplace? You may select to activate managed publishing and management precisely when permitted modifications are revealed.
We’re actually excited to share these upcoming options with you, and hope these modifications provide you with extra predictability and management over the app publishing course of.
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