How would help a new app store Android

How would help a new app store Android

With over two million apps, the play store is the most important source of app for Android. But we be honest: the mass of apps is more onerous. Many apps are broken, not look good or have too much advertising. So it is necessary often several attempts to find the app for themselves. But what would a perfect app store look like?

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The play store, endless spaces. We write the year 2016. These are the adventures of the Starship Android, that with his 2.25 million apps strong crew over ten years on the road is to explore foreign Galaxys, new gaming and new applications. Many light years of good usability away Android reaches applications, which never reviewed a person previously.

The search is no fun for the right app within the largest source for Android apps. The an app requires too many permissions and spying on you. The next looks bad and is hard to operate. The other paving to your display advertising and bugging you with notifications.

Unfortunately does not help the rating system in the play store. Click farms in Bangladesh, India, Egypt and other countries give the app marketers enough five-ratings of Star, to keep the average rating of 4.0. So, enough to land in the first ten hits for a search term. It is a fight against windmills of the legitimate user to counter consistently with one star reviews.

The problem: the whole good apps play store is located next to many bad apps. There are indeed alternative app market for Android, but all apps that you seek can be found in any of them.

Alternatives to the play store
The Amazon app store is the perhaps most popular play store alternative together with his free Department underground. Unfortunately, the number of available apps is massively restricted; Statista speaks of 600.000 apps. This is because among other things, that the shop and the apps included on the Amazon devices are optimized using an outdated Android version.

The app store has other weaknesses. App updates come late and does not automatically install itself. You have to individually confirm each installation. This is because that Android gives the app store as an unknown source; a Google made Android problem. Also, obvious app fakes, that want to fish out your login information cavort in the app store.

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Amazon's app store is full of fakes. Right: a telegram forgery. / © ANDROIDPIT
At least with the fake detection, Google is relatively nimble play store. And also the automated malware detection works fast enough so that malicious apps rarely long linger in the play store. This blog entry sponsored by applause provides a good overview of the security of the play store. Also Google's cooperation with independent security companies work out quite well. However, this doesn't change that bad apps are offered in the play store from a users perspective.

Every app in the play store would have to be checked editorially
But not good enough is a purely machine-based approval process for apps. Google and security companies are currently working on deep learning algorithms, which more accurately analyze the design of apps. If about an app without interface requires access to the SMS function, it is considered already as a warning signal. This improved the machine-aided quality control, will solve the problem of bad apps but in the medium term.

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The play store has an editorial staff. But she are little visible effort. Apple (right) makes more since. / © ANDROIDPIT
A good app store has an editorial staff that checks all incoming apps on their usability and. There are clear design guidelines that comply with app developers. It would be even better if such an editing then would crack down. This looks then like this:

A good app store editors is cracking
An app is not compliant and not sufficiently, the corresponding app developers should rework their user friendliness from the editorial perspective at least within a certain period of time. He does not, he has his app outside of the play store market.

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There are occasional topic pages in the play store, but Apple has significantly more. / © ANDROIDPIT
A good app store editors sorted out and helps with good and current recommendations
The app curating works amazingly bad play store. Sure that Google knows everything about us, can predict it amazingly bad, what apps for us are useful. Apple is clearly better positioned. The app catalog can be in many categories and thanks to editorially prepared lists pleasant crawl. And even better: the apps are of high quality. Android, this is a game of chance.

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The-app of city of the multi in Android (left) sees useless bad out. / © ANDROIDPIT
Huawei's app market HiSpace could be dangerous to play store
Several hundred million customers Huawei China incubated with just a play-store competitors with tremendous potential. Where Google and the play store are not available, alternatives can flourish. And Huawei can be no slouch with his HiSpace.

The Huawei-app-store will according to mobile divisions-chef Changzhu Li editorial checks, as we it at Apple watch. Poor apps are consistently kept from the catalog. That the app store one day to Europe will be exported, the expert in an interview does not rule out with us.

And now that the market share of the Huawei smartphones grow, many Android users mainly their apps could relate in a few years from the play store alternative. Why should itself through the vollgemüllten search result lists in the play store torment, if an alternative less, ensure high-quality results?

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