Google recently declared that it will remove obsolete Android apps from the Play Store if they didn’t support the platform’s latest capabilities or had been ignored. According to a new report, Google’s crackdown on outdated Android apps would result in the removal of roughly 900,000 apps from the Play Store.
According to CNET, analyst firm Pixalate predicts that Google and Apple will remove or conceal 1.5 million apps from their respective app stores because they have been neglected for at least two years.
When broken down, the Google Play Store is said to contain about 869,000 old Android apps that haven’t been updated in the last two years. As Google previously stated, these “abandoned” apps will be hidden from visibility in the Play Store and will not appear in search results for any potential new users. These apps’ current users will not be affected.
This change to the way the Play Store hosts apps will take effect on November 1, 2022, allowing developers plenty of time to update their apps. To avoid these changes, Google requires that apps from the previous two years must target an API level. By May 2022, that means aiming for API level 29, which corresponds to Android 10. API levels 31 and 32 are now available in Android 12 and 12L, with API level 33 in beta testing in Android 13.
Google has yet to respond to the claimed figure.
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