9.10. Managing Your Apps in Google Play

The Google Play Developer Console allows you to manage your account and your apps, check users’ star ratings for your apps (0 to 5 stars), respond to users’ comments, track the overall number of installs of each app and the number of active installs (installs minus uninstalls). You can view installation trends and the distribution of app downloads across Android versions, devices, and more. Crash reports list any crash and freeze information from users. If you’ve made upgrades to your app, you can easily publish the new version. You can remove the app from Google Play, but users who downloaded it previously may keep it on their devices. Users who uninstalled the app will be able to reinstall it even after ...

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