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For all the complaining about Apple's store, the Play Store has always been worse imo. You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at lea

For all the complaining about Apple's store, the Play Store has always been worse imo. You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people.

joshstrange 17d ago
> You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you are saying here but less than a month ago I released a brand new app with no beta period, direct to production (white labeled app, which is why I didn't need a beta)
- bpx51 17d ago
  Same happened to me yesterday, I published a new app and it was reviewed and published within a few hours without any beta testing. but I think this is why I see people ready to buy old playstore accounts for real money, maybe this only affects new accounts
- brewtide 17d ago
  I'm just working on my first app (thanks to AI...) and if you have a new dev account created sometime after 2023 they are making you do a 12 person, 14 day beta run before anything else occurs, apparently.
  - joshcartme 16d ago
    It gets worse! If Google decides the people in your test don't engage enough and/or you didn't respond to their feedback, they may not give you production access. I've got a game that's available on iOS, I released there first and did lots of testing to deal with the low-hanging bugs. After doing the 14 day test Google emailed me: Possible reasons why your production access could not be granted include: - Testers were not engaged with your app during your closed test - You didn't follow testing best practices, which may include gathering and acting on user feedback through updates to your app
- sync 17d ago
  As an individual that 'dozen people beta test' is required. It's not required if you're a business. Also depends on when your account was created. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/14151465?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
- basisword 16d ago
  I think it only applies to newer accounts and individual rather than company accounts. To make things worse, Google doesn't allow you to switch an account from individual > company. You need to create a whole new account.

For all the complaining about Apple's store, the Play Store has always been worse imo. You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people.

joshstrange 17d ago

> You can't even release an app without first doing a beta test with at least a dozen people. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what you are saying here but less than a month ago I released a brand new app with no beta period, direct to production (white labeled app, which is why I didn't need a beta)

bpx51 17d ago
Same happened to me yesterday, I published a new app and it was reviewed and published within a few hours without any beta testing. but I think this is why I see people ready to buy old playstore accounts for real money, maybe this only affects new accounts
brewtide 17d ago
I'm just working on my first app (thanks to AI...) and if you have a new dev account created sometime after 2023 they are making you do a 12 person, 14 day beta run before anything else occurs, apparently.
- joshcartme 16d ago
  It gets worse! If Google decides the people in your test don't engage enough and/or you didn't respond to their feedback, they may not give you production access. I've got a game that's available on iOS, I released there first and did lots of testing to deal with the low-hanging bugs. After doing the 14 day test Google emailed me: Possible reasons why your production access could not be granted include: - Testers were not engaged with your app during your closed test - You didn't follow testing best practices, which may include gathering and acting on user feedback through updates to your app
sync 17d ago
As an individual that 'dozen people beta test' is required. It's not required if you're a business. Also depends on when your account was created. https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/14151465?hl=en https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
basisword 16d ago
I think it only applies to newer accounts and individual rather than company accounts. To make things worse, Google doesn't allow you to switch an account from individual > company. You need to create a whole new account.