I have a question about the ANR and the supposely "punishement" that comes with it if you are above the threshold. I have had a few games available in the store for a few years now and they all have/had around 1% ANR (above the limit) mainly due to Admob. I never had an issue with the number of downloads or being featured in categories. I even went up to 15k-20k downloads/day for a while on one of my games with 1% ANR (all other vital metrics are quite perfect though).
A year ago I was able to go below the 0.47% mark by manually removing the problematic devices (quite a big task to do). But I did not see any change in my organic download/ranking/featured. So I just put back the devices (and I went back above the 0.47% mark and did not see an impact as well on the ranking/download). Recently I just did the same again but this time by removing all devices android 8.1 to 11 that have 1 gig of RAM and less (those seems to be the culprit). I went at around 0.3% (below threshold). After a month of being below threshold, I did not see any change in my ranking or download (actually, my downloads went quite down...) So my question is... Did anyone actually notice a difference by being above or below the mark? Are we trying hard(and losing users/getting complain that the game is not available on their devices etc) by trying to go below the mark but in fact it does nothing at all? (Maybe the "You will get punished if you are above the limit" is just a soft way to have developers improve the quality of their games but they never really used it to un-promote or affect the organic algorithm? I could not find anything on the web with a real example where people noticed something. Since this ANR issue is pretty common to a lot of developers, maybe they never really implemented the "punishment" for this metric? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/a63863bf-1192-406c-939c-b79578e44bean%40googlegroups.com.
