🏆 Say hello to Focus Friend, Google Play's Best App of 2025! 🎉 This brilliant productivity timer helps you focus with your adorable animated "Bean" friend. Put your phone down and earn cozy upgrades for your Bean! 🧶✨ See more 2025 winners → https://goo.gle/49HZlOf
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🧑🍳 Chiharu Sugawara, an avid baker and coder, saw her colleagues struggling with the daily frustration of what to cook. She took the chance to combine her passions and co-founded Delish Kitchen. The app uses 55,000+ simple, chef-approved video recipes to help millions cook with confidence. What started with four employees, has now grown to over 200. Discover more stories → https://goo.gle/3XR4hsS
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Congratulations to Age of Learning's ABCmouse 2 for being named one of Google Play's best apps of 2025! 🐭🍎 🌟 The ABCmouse 2 app has 4.6 stars on the Google Play Store, with millions of downloads. We love to see examples of delightful apps built with Flutter topping the charts! See all the winners → https://goo.gle/4i85k0W
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VP & GM of Play + Developer Ecosystem | Fortune 100 Board Member | Helping Devs Build Successful Apps and Games on Android
Congratulations to all the developers that made Google Play's Best of 2025 list! This year’s winners aren’t just a collection of high quality apps, games and books but examples of content that pushed culture, technology, and user expectations forward. Here are some of the top-ranking apps and games that impressed us with their creativity, engineering, and innovation: - Best overall app: Focus Friend by Hank Green - Best overall game: Pokémon TCG Pocket - Best multi-device app: Luminar - Best multi-device game: Disney Speedstorm You’ll find the rest of this year’s winners in the blog linked in the comments!
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Nail your pre-launch strategy from day-one with the Google Play Apps Accelerator. During the 12-week program, you’ll dive into topics focused on building the perfect go-to-market plan to supercharge your app's launch. Apply by January 7 2026 ➡️ https://lnkd.in/ebTWEZhC
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Expanding to new markets doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming. 💡 Introducing Gemini-powered localization in Play Console. Get high-quality translations for your app strings, instantly simplifying your expansion. Reaching a global audience has never been easier. Check out the blog for all the new features designed to accelerate your success → goo.gle/play-updates25
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Mobile abuse threatens your revenue, growth, and user trust. Google Play's Integrity API offers resilient threat detection, verifying genuine interactions from your unmodified app on certified Android devices. ✅ The impact is massive: apps using it see 80% lower unauthorized usage! Leaders like Uber, TikTok, and Stripe rely on it. We've made integration even easier and added in-app remediation prompts. Learn more → https://goo.gle/4o6Sxxd
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The Google Play Best of 2025 Winners Are Here! 🏆 We're thrilled to announce the winners of the Google Play Best of 2025 awards, celebrating the incredible brilliance, ingenuity, and quality of the year's best apps, games, and books. This excellence is a direct reflection of our mission to evolve Google Play into more than just a store—it's an experience built entirely around you, the user. Our efforts to tailor your experience, unify gaming across devices, boost rewards, and make content discovery easier are all designed to better support the developers who make the platform shine. ➡️ Our success is tied to our developers' success. Their innovation is the engine that fuels Google Play and provides the world-class content these awards are designed to honor. A huge congratulations to all the winners! We've also caught up with the creators of the "Best App," "Best Game," "Best Multi-device App," and "Best Multi-device Game" to hear how they crafted these award-winning experiences. Read on for the full list of award winners in the U.S.→ https://goo.gle/3XAapFN
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Google Play Games Level Up program is an all-in-one toolkit designed to recognize and reward great gaming experiences, providing you with powerful tools and promotional opportunities to drive business growth for your game. Games can stay enrolled in the Level Up program and maximize benefits by meeting the user experience guidelines by each program milestone. Here is your timeline for program eligibility → https://lnkd.in/e-ANv8xr
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🤝 We're raising the bar on technical quality! Our collaboration on the new Excessive Partial Wake Locks metric—now a core vital in Android vitals—is designed to help you deliver a great, power-efficient user experience. Excessive battery drain is top of mind for users. Use this refined metric now to prepare. Titles that don't meet the quality threshold may face visibility and store listing warnings starting March 1, 2026 → https://goo.gle/49YZAEH
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