Functionality, Content, and User Experience

Apps should provide a stable, responsive, and engaging user experience. Apps that crash, do not have the basic degree of adequate utility as mobile apps, lack engaging content, or exhibit other behavior that is not consistent with a functional and engaging user experience are not allowed on Google Play.

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Limited Functionality and Content

We do not allow apps that only have limited functionality and content.

Examples of common violations
  • Apps that are static without app-specific functionalities, for example, text only or PDF file apps
  • Apps with very little content and that do not provide an engaging user experience, for example, single wallpaper apps
  • Apps that are designed to do nothing or have no function

 

 

Broken Functionality

We don’t allow apps that crash, force close, freeze, or otherwise function abnormally.
Examples of common violations
  • Apps that don’t install
  • Apps that install, but don’t load
  • Apps that load, but are not responsive

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