Fix is arriving for broken app developer pages on the Play Store
Two million apps sit on theGoogle Play Storeat any given time. Most of the downloads go to names we’ve all heard of, making it all the more vital for the smaller publishers to get known. One handy way fans could get to know all the apps a developer has made was to either visit their website… or GitHub… or LinkedIn… or their non-existent web presence… or to take a look at their developer listing page on the Play Store. Except those listing pages are kind of messed up right now.
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Android Police founderArtem Russakovskiisays he’s not been able to access some key publisher listing pages including ones for Apple, Netflix, and Spotify.
One other user said he’s been dealing with this problem for the past couple of days.
We did some further digging and found that publisher tag hyperlinks with URLs that refer to the human-readable name of the publisher likehttps://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Righteous+Hammer+Gamesdon’t work, but ones that refer to the Play Store’s internal identifying code for the publisher e.g.,https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6079376672689401879, do work. Google LLC’s developer page can be reached with the URLhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=5700313618786177705, but nothttps://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=Google+LLC. It’s hard to tell whether this is a causal factor or just something correlative.
We’ve reached out to Google for comment.
UPDATE: 2022/08/08 18:13 EST BY JULES WANG
Google says fix is rolling out
On Monday, a Google spokesperson told Android Police that the company has identified a fix for the issue and that it has started rolling it out. As of this update, we were still unable to get the URLs with the human-readable names to work.
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