Posted by Lydia Gaymond, Product Manager, Google PlayPowered by the Android App Bundle, Google Play offers all developers the benefits of a modern Android distribution. As the Android ecosystem expands, it’s more important than ever to know how your app is being delivered to different devices.
Delivery Insights helps you better understand and analyze your app’s delivery performance and what contributes to it, and take action to improve the experience for your users. Here are five recent Play Console updates that you can use to gain more insight into your shipping performance.
1. When you release your app, you will now see the expected app size and update size in the release area, so you can know if the size change from the previous release is acceptable.
Find the expected app size and update rate when creating a new release. |
2. If you use advanced Play delivery tools, such as Play Asset Delivery or Play Feature Delivery, details on how these are delivered to users are now available on the Statistics page and the Delivery tab in the app bundle browser. Understanding the usage of your feature modules and resource packs will help you make better decisions about additional modularization and show usage patterns to your users.
Find details about how your feature modules are shipped to users on the Delivery tab in the App Bundle browser in the Play Console. |
View performance metrics for each module on the Statistics page in the Play Console. |
3. When analyzing your existing release, you can see the “freshness” of your install base and how many users are on it to help you understand how quickly users are migrating to new releases. To improve your update rate, consider using the In-App Updates API.
Find out how many users are on your current release and how quickly users are migrating to new releases. |
4. To dive deeper into the performance of your individual app version, you can find information on download rates per device model, most common update rates, and install base in the app bundle browser.
On the Application Bundle Browser page, review and install device-specific bundle downloads. |
5. All these features along with other app metrics are also available in your app dashboard where you can monitor these metrics over time.
Track these new delivery metrics on your app dashboard. |
We hope these changes help you make more informed decisions about your app development and give you a detailed view of how your app is delivering to end-user devices.
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