Apps App Rejected from play store "designed for families"

[Laura Baker]

Hi,
This is the first game I have written and I am trying to publish it to Google Play store in the "designed for families" section. The app keeps getting rejected with the following feedback:

- Apps in Designed for Families must include metadata text and images that accurately reflect the app experience.

I have read all the guidelines and policies and I cant work out where I am going wrong! I have revised the short and full description and I feel they fully reflect the app. The images are all screen shots from game play so they should accurately reflect the experience.

I have changed the "family category" to be "Brain Games" as this is the best fit for the app. I m happy to include the full description and short description and the images that i have used for the release but I didnt want to bombard the thread with to much information...

Have I totally missed understood the feedback??? is it actually referring to the metadata in the androidManifest?

Thanks for reading I hope someone can help as I am really stuck!

 

[scary alien]

Hey Laura,

I've no experience with this type of app, but I"m guessing they're looking for ALL of the detailed criteria to be addressed/met/covered in your app description.

Try going through their policies and requirements and make a list of everything that they mention and verify that you've got that base covered:

https://play.google.com/about/families/ (be sure to expand and review all of the sections)

https://play.google.com/intl/ALL_us/about/families/developer-distribution-agreement-addendum.html​

Here's other links that you might find helpful (but I'm guessing you might have already run across them):

https://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/families/faq.html

http://kidoz.net/blog/google-designed-for-families/ says:

For an app to be included in the family section it’s not enough to simply be appropriate for kids, it must provide kids with added value.​

For an app to comply with the Designed for Families section a privacy policy must be posted for users.​

Cheers and best of luck!

Let us know if you every get it pushed through .

 

[Laura Baker]

Hey Scary Alien,

Thanks for your reply. You are correct I am familiar with all these links. But I revisit them in absolute detail.

Thanks again