From 08710f1b69e2188a439b54f1ae59a574f71681d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dirk Dougherty
- If you've built great apps designed for kids or families, the family discovery experience
- on Google Play is a great way to surface them to parents.
+ If you've built great apps designed for kids or families, the family
+ discovery experience on Google Play is a great way to surface them to
+ parents.
Developers are invited to opt-in these apps and games to the new Designed for
+
+ Developers are invited to opt-in these apps and games to the new Designed for
Families program. Apps that meet the program
- requirements will be featured through Google Play's family-friendly browse
- and search experiences so that parents can find suitable, trusted, high-quality
- apps and games more easily.
+ requirements will be featured through Google Play's family-friendly
+ browse and search experiences so that parents can find suitable, trusted,
+ high-quality apps and games more easily.
-Opt-in your apps and games to Designed for Families from the All Applications page
-in the Developer Console, under Pricing and Distribution. For more information on
- opting-in, visit the Google Play Developer Help Center.
+ Opt-in your apps and games to Designed for Families from the All
+ Applications page in the Developer Console, under
+ Pricing and Distribution. For more information on opting-in,
+ visit the Google Play Developer Help
+ Center.
+ New browsing categories give you improved visibility to parents.
+ New browsing categories give you improved visibility to parents.
-Designed for Families expands the visibility of your family content on Google Play, helping parents easily find your family-friendly apps and games throughout the store. And new features create a trusted environment that empowers parents to make informed desicions and engage with your content. Only apps and games opted-in to the Designed for Families program will show up in searches initiated from the Family section in Apps Home. They’ll also be more visible when users search for family or kid related content from anywhere in the Play store. The Family star button on Apps and Games Home points to an enhanced discovery experience for parents looking for family appropriate content. The new Family section includes uniquely merchandised content, new categories, and age-based browsing. Participating apps will receive this additional visibility on top of their existing categories, rankings, and reviews elsewhere on the Google Play store.
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- Browse
- Character pages
+ Designed for Families expands the visibility of your family content on Google
+ Play, helping parents easily find your family-friendly apps and games
+ throughout the store. And new features create a trusted environment that
+ empowers parents to make informed desicions and engage with your content.
+
+ Only apps and games opted-in to the Designed for Families program will show + up in searches initiated from the Family section in Apps Home. They’ll also + be more visible when users search for family or kid related content from + anywhere in the Play store. +
-Character pages let parents discover your content based on familiar brands and characters.
-+ The Family star button on Apps and Games Home points to an enhanced discovery + experience for parents looking for family appropriate content. The new Family + section includes uniquely merchandised content, new categories, and age-based + browsing. Participating apps will receive this additional visibility on top + of their existing categories, rankings, and reviews elsewhere on the Google + Play store. +
+Parents can now discover content for popular characters from around the globe in one place, including apps, games, movies, tv shows, books, and even music. This provides a powerful way for parents to discover content from familiar brands and beloved characters, and allows you to reach a highly relevant and targeted audience.
++ Character pages let parents discover your content based on familiar brands + and characters. +
+The family sections include their own merchandised collections. The themed collections on these pages are curated to ensure quality and limited only to content accepted into the Designed for Families program.
++ Parents can now discover content for popular characters from around the globe + in one place, including apps, games, movies, tv shows, books, and even music. + This provides a powerful way for parents to discover content from familiar + brands and beloved characters, and allows you to reach a highly relevant and + targeted audience. +
-Apps participating in Designed for Families are marked with the family star badge, which reflects the target age you select for your apps and serves as a signal of quality for parents.
++ The family sections include their own merchandised collections. The themed + collections on these pages are curated to ensure quality and limited only to + content accepted into the Designed for Families program. +
-Participating apps are marked with the family star badge.
-+ Apps participating in Designed for Families are marked with the family star + badge, which reflects the target age you select for your apps and serves as a + signal of quality for parents. +
++ Participating apps are marked with the family star badge. +
+-The Designed for Families program is designed to be inclusive of apps that are made for kids as well as those that can be enjoyed by the entire family. General audience apps that have no specific benefit or relevance for audiences under the age of thirteen will not be accepted into the program. To participate, there are specific guidelines and policies your apps need to meet, which are assessed in an app content review. - + The Designed for Families program is designed to be inclusive of apps that + are made for kids as well as those that can be enjoyed by the entire family. + General audience apps that have no specific benefit or relevance for + audiences under the age of thirteen will not be accepted into the program. To + participate, there are specific guidelines and policies your apps need to + meet, which are assessed in an app content review.
@@ -102,12 +155,19 @@ The Designed for Families program is designed to be inclusive of apps that are m
-To learn how to opt-in and find more details about the program, visit the Google Play Developer Help Center. + To learn how to opt-in and find more details about the program, visit the + Google Play Developer Help + Center. +
-If you'd like to receive occasional emails with news relating to the Designed for Families -program and Google Play opportunities, sign up using the Designed -for Families Interest Form +
+ If you'd like to receive occasional emails with news relating to the Designed + for Families program and Google Play opportunities, sign up using the + + Designed for Families Interest Form
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/docs/html/google/index.jd b/docs/html/google/index.jd index 2d3ee05..a2a6c50 100644 --- a/docs/html/google/index.jd +++ b/docs/html/google/index.jd @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ footer.hide=1-The Android Data Binding Library is available as a developer -preview. Expression syntax and behaviors may change prior to the full release -of the library, currently planned for Q3 2015. If you have feedback or want to report -issues, please use the issue -tracker. Stay tuned for more information about Data Binding and examples of how to use it. -
-This document explains how to use the Data Binding Library to write declarative layouts and minimize the glue code necessary to bind your application logic and layouts.
+The Data Binding Library offers both flexibility and broad comnpatibility +— it's a support library, so you can use it with all Android platform +versions back to Android 2.1 (API level 7+).
+ +Android Studio 1.3.0-beta1 or higher is required.
+ +Please note that the Data Binding library is a beta release. + While Data Binding is in beta, developers should be aware of the following + caveats:
+To get started with Data Binding, download the library from the Support +repository in the Android SDK manager.
+ +Make sure you are using a compatible version of Android Studio. +The Data Binding plugin for Android Studio requires Android Studio 1.3.0-beta1 +or higher.
To get started with Data Binding, download the library from the Support repository in the Android SDK manager.
+ +Make sure you are using a compatible version of Android Studio. The Data Binding plugin for Android Studio requires Android 1.3.0-beta1 or higher.
+Setting Up Work Environment:
@@ -391,7 +437,7 @@ ListItemBinding binding = DataBindingUtil.inflate(layoutInflater, R.lay <variable name="userList" type="List<User>"/> </data> -+
Note: Android Studio does not yet handle imports so the autocomplete for imported variables may not work in your IDE. Your application will still compile fine and you can work around the IDE issue by @@ -771,7 +817,7 @@ android:text="@{@plurals/banana(bananaCount)}" Have an orange Have %d oranges -android:text="&commat{&commatplurals/orange(orangeCount, orangeCount)}" +android:text="@{@plurals/orange(orangeCount, orangeCount)}"
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