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Google removes Trump’s official app from Google Play because it was useless

2021 was the year that Donald Trump and some related platforms have seen their distribution affected, after being blocked in social networks and application stores. The last one is the official application of the Donald Trump campaign, which has been removed from Google Play, although for a simpler reason.

The app, which surpassed 500,000 installs last year and had an average grade of 3.41 stars before being removed, was removed by Google for have no functionality Or, simply put, because it hadn’t worked for a few weeks.

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Without functionality there is no site in the Google store

The official application of the Trump campaign officially arrived on Android in 2016. Focused on the 2020 campaign which has ended with the change of administration, it was a centralized place to keep up to date with the campaign, follow the events and news and donate to the cause.

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Apparently, after the change of administration, the application was left to its own devices, so that did nothing but show a charging symbol indefinitely. Google has confirmed to Android Police that, indeed, the app was deleted after it stopped working and developers did not respond to “repeated requests” from Google to fix it.

It is not something out of the ordinary, because one of the application publishing rules on Google Play is precisely to provide minimal functionality. According to the rules, there is no place in the store both for apps that do nothing and for those that “crash, crash, hang or do not work normally“, the infraction in which the official app of Donald Trump would have incurred.

One of the rules of Google Play is that published apps have minimal functionality

Google’s policy is remove applications that do not meet a minimum level of functionality if not fixed in a reasonable time. It is a good method to clean trash from google play, and the truth is that it would not hurt if this rule was enforced more frequently.

Via | Android Police

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