#app_developers

The RuStore audience exceeded 22.5 million users per month The team of the online application store RuStore for the Android operating system - the domestic analogue of Google Play - shared the latest news about the project. New features have become available to developers that will simplify the process of managing and testing applications, and will also increase the number of downloads. [caption id="attachment_84065" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Google Play[/caption] A new promotion format is appearing in RuStore - in-game events. In the “Interesting” section, banners will appear with announcements of events from developers with dates, descriptions and links to applications. This will further attract the attention of users and increase the number of downloads and payments in applications and games. The domestic alternative to Google Play is launching new features Uploading videos to application cards has also become available. When publishing an application, developers can add a link to a video, which will be displayed to users in the application card in the section with screenshots. You can download videos from any popular video hosting site. To check in-app purchases using test bank cards, Sandbox will be launched. The update will allow you to safely test payment integration without the need to conduct transactions with real money. Developers will be able to switch between real and test purchases at any time. In addition, developers will soon be able to download applications in the Android App Bundle (AAB) format. This universal format takes into account the capabilities of the smartphone and automatically adapts to them. This will make it easier for developers to publish and manage applications in RuStore, and users will be able to download the content they like faster, since thanks to the new format the size of applications will be smaller. RuStore was created by the VK company (formerly Mail.ru Group) under the patronage of the Ministry of Digital Development. This application directory became available in May 2022. At the beginning of February 2023, RuStore left the beta testing stage. More than 20 thousand applications are already available in the store, and the audience has exceeded 22.5 million users per month. 

More than 12 thousand applications from 7 thousand developers are already available in the store The team of the domestic analog of Google Play - the online application store RuStore for the Android operating system - shared the latest news about the project. As the press service announced, the store now has tools for collecting and analyzing errors and remotely managing mobile applications. [caption id="attachment_58582" align="alignnone" width="780"] Google Play[/caption] This will allow you to find and fix errors in real-time, as well as test updates without publishing a new version of the application. Developed by the team of the social network Odnoklassniki, the Tracer tool has become the Russian analog of Firebase Crashlycs from Google. It helps you find technical issues in Android mobile apps in real-time and provides automatic bug reports. Another advantage of Tracer is the ability to find performance bottlenecks that cannot be detected during testing. By quickly identifying such problems, developers will be able to avoid application crashes and audience churn. The domestic alternative to Google Play is developing Remote Config allows you to test new features by releasing them to only a subset of users. If the functionality works with errors or is not liked by the audience, you can turn it off in real-time without updating the application. With Remote Config, you can publish feature sets to different user groups. For example, developers have the opportunity to launch updates for part of the audience with a certain device model and enable the rest after testing. New tools are already available to developers in the RuStore Console. As the company noted, they have a clear interface, and the integration process does not require complex settings. Let us remind you that RuStore was created by the VK company (formerly Mail.ru Group) under the patronage of the Ministry of Digital Development. This application directory became available in May 2022. At the beginning of February 2023, RuStore left the beta testing stage. Since its launch, RuStore's monthly audience in Russia has exceeded 12.5 million people. More than 12 thousand applications from 7 thousand developers are already available in the store. Of these, more than a thousand applications were created by foreign developers, in particular from China and Singapore.