GOOGLE TO FLAG ANDROID APPS WITH EXCESSIVE BATTERY USAGE ON THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE

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Google has announced that it will begin flagging apps on the Google Play Store that pass a defined bad behavior threshold. The Android vitals system will track partial wake locks, the cumulative time the app spends with background work while the screen is off, and prevent the device from entering sleep mode. Flagged apps will have a warning on their Play Store page and be excluded from prominent discovery surfaces such as recommendations.