Android Question Google review times are getting higher

[Alessandro71]

Not strictly B4A related, but just to share experieces...
I have some apps that I publish both on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Updates are always synchronized: I send the new version to the Play Store and the App Store within minutes.
Google Review times have always been fast: a matter of hours, while Apple took at least day.
Since a couple of months, Google times have skyrocketed, topping 2 days in one instance (and obviously it was a critical update).
For critical updates, Apple has an "expedite review" process that can provide faster approval times, while Google has nothing similar: you can open an issue, but answer times are abysmal.
Is it something anyone else noticed? How do you deal with that?

 

[Brian Dean]

Google times have skyrocketed, topping 2 days in one instance

That is interesting, and I will be interested to see what other people say. I don't update apps very often but I have one that has been published for several years. In my experience two or three days is a normal review time. I released an update (half-a-dozen lines of new code) last week and that took a couple of days. The previous update, a couple of months ago, was simply a target sdk level change - that was released in minutes and I was very much surprised.

 

[Computersmith64]

I've released a bunch of updates for multiple apps lately & the review times have been variable. In some cases they've been approved within a couple of hours & in others it has taken up to 1 or 2 days. There was a time a little while back when review times were several days almost every time, but they seem to have improved significantly since then.