If you have a considerable amount of downloads and good reviews on your app, you might get eligible to be featured in Play store. But before, Google will review your app and they are pretty picky in this process.

Here are some basic “rules” you will need to follow (with love, from Google)

Generic

Your app’s targetSdkVersion must be set to the latest version in order to ensure that newer platform behaviors such as hardware acceleration and the correct default visual theme are applied.

Permissions

Don’t request READ_LOGS permission on your app. Log entries contain the user’s private information, so this permission has been labeled as “Not for use by third-party applications” in the Manifest.permission guide. Instead, use ‘UncaughtExceptionHandler’ to obtain crash data

To dial a phone number, your app should use the ACTION_DIAL action, which does not require the CALL_PHONE permission.

The following permissions could be used to access sensitive or personally-identifiable information. Please either remove these permissions, or raise your app’s maturity level to Medium or High. READ_SMS READ_CONTACTS READ_CALL_LOGS READ_PHONE_STATE



Notifications

Your app’s notification icons in the status bar must be completely white, with no colors.

If your app creates a notification while another of the same type is still pending, avoid creating a new notification object. Instead, stack the notification.

Store content

If you have wearable version, make sure to include at least one Wear screenshot in your Google Play listing. The screenshot should be added to the end of the phone category.

The images under “screenshots” in your Google Play listing can not be all modified with additional promotional text/graphics. Some promo slides are acceptable, but you need to upload at least one unaltered, high resolution (1280 x 800 minimum) screen capture for phone, 7-inch tablet, and 10-inch tablet to give users an unmodified view of the UI before downloading.

Make sure you add a link to your app’s privacy policy in “Additional Information” in the Google Play listing (under “Contact Developer”)

UI & UX