Better understand conversions with the new country breakdown in the Google Play Developer Console User Acquisition Report

We launched the User Acquisition Performance report last August, in the Google Play Developer Console, to help you understand how users discover your app on Google Play and how your different acquisition channels perform at converting users to buyers.

To provide more granular capabilities within the tool, we’re introducing a new country breakdown. Now, you can get deeper insight into your conversion funnel, and track conversions by country from Store listing visits to repeat purchases. Use this to understand where you should spend time improving your store listing and branding.

TIPS: For low performing countries, check if you’ve localized your listing in that country’s language, and if not, try our professional App Translation Service [https://goo.gl/yidohX] . Once your store listing has been localized, you can maximize conversions by running language-specific Store Listing Experiments [https://goo.gl/xoEWPG].

The new country breakdown in the User Acquisition Performance report in the Google Play Developer Console

Take a look at this video of the first ever class of Launchpad Accelerator, a new program that provides late-stage, mobile apps startups in emerging markets with mentoring and resources to successfully scale in their local economies.

You can learn more about how to participate in the next class here: https://goo.gl/7QT0YW

M update: +Colt McAnlis explains new features in the “Profile GPU Rendering” tool.

https://goo.gl/WoZ9Hk

#PERFMATTERS

New Outsourcing Playbook for Android apps

Hot off the press, check out the Outsourcing Playbook for Android. It’s full of advice to make you more successful when outsourcing your app development. Use the guide to build an effective strategy to improve how you select and work with agencies. This will help you get the quality app you need to increase your reach and meet your business goals.

Get it on Google Play now: http://g.co/play/outsourcingplaybook

You can also download the PDF version of the guide here: https://developers.google.com/agency/

ADB Episode 47: That Syncing Feeling

In the latest episode of Android Developers Backstage, +Chet Haase and +Tor Norbye chat with +Christopher Tate about cloud sync, backup and alarms.

http://androidbackstage.blogspot.com/2016/04/episode-47-that-syncing-feeling.html

Top tips for using the new Android Wear -round identifier

Hoi Lam shares some of the best practices when building for circular screens! With API 23, you can now separate resource files by whether the screen is round or not using -round suffix in the resource directories (e.g. layout-round, values-round). How should you choose between BoxInsetLayout, layout-round and values-round? Read on to find out!

http://goo.gl/R8uFCE

Deprecation of BIND_LISTENER with Android Wear APIs

If you’re an Android Wear developer, we wanted to let you know of a change you might need to make to your app to improve the performance of your user’s devices. If your app is using BIND_LISTENER intent filters in your manifest, it is important that you are aware that this API has been deprecated on all Android versions. The new replacement API introduced in Google Play Services 8.2 is more efficient for Android devices, so developers are encouraged to migrate to this as soon as possible to ensure the best user experience. It is important that all Android Wear developers are aware of this change and update their apps as soon as possible.
Learn more from +Wayne Piekarski at: http://goo.gl/9Hl26U

#AndroidDev #AndroidWear

Enhancing App Security on Google Play

For great tips on how to build more secure apps, check out the +Google Play App Security Improvement Program. As part of the program, we also help you identify potential security enhancements when your app is uploaded to Google Play. In fact, we’ve worked with developers to improve the security of over 100,000 apps through the program last year.

http://goo.gl/Zd4b7G

Developing for Direct Boot

For some apps that schedule alarms and receive messages, delivering timely notifications is critical. With Android N, we’re introducing the option for apps to run before the user unlocks the device after a reboot, so your users will never miss that important alarm clock in the morning.

In the recently released Android N Developer Preview 2, we’ve changed the names of some methods and Intents related to Direct Boot to better reflect their actual behavior. For example: Context.createDeviceEncryptedStorageContext() is now Context.createDeviceProtectedStorageContext() and PackageManager.MATCH_ENCRYPTION_AWARE is now PackageManager.MATCH_DIRECT_BOOT_AWARE.

Check out our blog post (http://goo.gl/8Z7QWd) to learn more and remember to #BuildBetterApps!

Build your own TV channel using the TV Input Framework on #Android TV! http://goo.gl/P8mbxQ

Join us for the first ever Google Play Awards taking place this year at Google I/O
Check out the nominees across 10 award categories including Standout Startup, Most Innovative, Best App, Best Game and more. See who wins by joining us in person or via the livestream on May 19. http://goo.gl/VCvldQ

#io16 #AndroidDev

Today, we’re excited to announce that Sony will join the N Developer Preview family of supported devices with the Xperia™ Z3.

The Xperia™ Z3 joins Nexus 5X, 6, 6P, Nexus Player, the Pixel C tablet and General Mobile 4G (Android One) in giving you an early look at the next version of Android. Sony has been working closely with us to bring you the N Developer Preview on Xperia™ for early testing and development.

To get started, you can download the latest N Developer Preview from Sony (currently Developer Preview 2, available at the link below) and manually flash it to your device. You’ll then receive future Developer Preview updates over-the-air, direct from Sony.

We’re continuing to work toward giving you more options for early testing and development on N Developer Preview. Stay tuned!

https://goo.gl/eYlwtk