Access Android vitals data through the new Play Developer Reporting API

Posted by Lauren Mytton, Product Supervisor, Google Play

 

High quality is foundational to your sport or app’s success on Google Play, and Android vitals in Google Play Console is an effective way to trace how your app is performing. In reality, over 80% of the highest one thousand builders examine Android vitals no less than as soon as a month to observe and troubleshoot their technical high quality, and lots of go to each day

Whereas the Android vitals overview in Play Console permits you to examine your app or sport’s high quality at a look, many builders have informed us that they wish to work with their vitals knowledge outdoors Play Console, too. A few of your use instances embody:

• Construct inner dashboards
• Be part of with different datasets for deeper evaluation, and
• Automate troubleshooting and releases

Beginning as we speak, these use instances at the moment are attainable with the brand new Play Developer Reporting API.

The Play Developer Reporting API permits builders to work with app-level knowledge from their developer accounts outdoors Play Console. On this preliminary launch, you get entry to the 4 core Android vitals stability and battery metrics: crash price, ANR price, extreme wake-up price, and caught background wake-lock price, together with crash and ANR points and stack traces. You too can view anomalies, breakdowns (together with new nation filters in Vitals), and three years of metric historical past.

Arrange entry to the brand new Play Developer Reporting API from
the API Entry web page in Play Console.

Getting began with the API

To allow the API, you should be an proprietor of your developer account in Play Console. Then you may arrange entry in minutes from the API Entry web page in Play Console. Our documentation covers all the things it’s good to know to get began.

Utilizing the API

You could find pattern requests within the API documentation, together with a listing of out there endpoints (for each alpha and beta releases).

Greatest practices

After getting enabled the API, chances are you’ll want to ship some requests manually to get a way of the API assets and operation earlier than implementing extra complicated options. This may additionally assist you set up question occasions, which is able to fluctuate relying on the quantity of information being processed. Queries over very long time ranges, throughout many dimensions, and/or towards very giant apps will take longer to execute.

Most of our metric units are refreshed as soon as a day. To keep away from losing assets and request quota, we advocate you employ the supplied strategies to examine for knowledge freshness and confirm that new knowledge is accessible earlier than issuing a question.

Thanks to all of the builders who requested this function. We hope it helps you proceed to enhance your apps and video games. We hope it helps you proceed to enhance your apps and video games. To be taught extra about Android vitals and the Play Developer Reporting API, view our session from the Google for Video games Developer Summit.

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