Google Play app description formatting

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I ve made an Android application that is available on Google Play  Now I want to add some more formatting to my app description  eg  indent  links  lists     But I cannot find any website where possible formatting is listed  Google Help pages cannot help me either on this subject  There exists a lot of different formats and I don t really know which one to use  eg  HTML or wiki formatting     I could test it with trial and error  but that would take some time  because Google Play only refreshes after 2-3 hours  And while I m testing  my app description would be rather ugly if the wrong format was used   tl dr Is there a list of all possible formatting I could use in the app description for Google Play

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Currently  June 2016  typing in the link as http   www example com will only produce plain text    You can now however put in an html anchor     lt a href  http   www example com  gt My Example Site lt  a gt

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Experimentally  I ve discovered that you can provide    Single line breaks are ignored  double line breaks open a new paragraph  Single line breaks can be enforced by ending a line with two spaces  similar to Markdown   A limited set of HTML tags  optionally nested   specifically     lt b gt     lt  b gt  for boldface   lt i gt     lt  i gt  for italics   lt u gt     lt  u gt  for underline   lt br   gt  to enforce a single line break  I could not find any way to get strikethrough working  neither HTML or Markdown style    A fully-formatted URL such as http   google com  this appears as a hyperlink   Beware that trying to use an HTML  lt a gt  tag for a custom description does not work and breaks the formatting   HTML character entities are supported  such as  amp rarr    rarr     amp trade    trade   and  amp reg    reg    consult this W3 reference for the exhaustive list  UTF-8 encoded characters are supported  such as                          and    Indentation isn t strictly possible  but using a bullet and em space character looks reasonable   amp  8226  amp  8195  yields    8226   8195     Emoji are also supported  though on the website depends on the user s OS  amp  browser     Special notes concerning only Google Play app    Some HTML tags only work in the app     lt blockquote gt     lt  blockquote gt  to indent a paragraph of text   lt small gt     lt  small gt  for slightly smaller text   lt big gt     lt  big gt  for slightly larger text   lt sup gt     lt  sup gt  and  lt sub gt     lt  sub gt  for super- and subscripts   lt font color   a32345  gt     lt  font gt  for setting font colors in HEX code   Some symbols do not appear correctly  such as   8227   All these notes also apply to the app s  What s New  section    Special notes concerning only Google Play website    All HTML formatting appears as plain text in the website s  What s New  section  i e  users will see the HTML source

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As a matter of fact  HTML character entites also work   http   www w3 org TR html4 sgml entities html   It lets you insert special characters like bullets   bull     amp bull      trade     amp trade        the HTML way   Note that you can also  and probably should  type special characters directly in the form fields if you can enter international characters      one consideration here is whether or not you care about third-party sites that collect data on your app from Google Play   some might simply take it as HTML content  others might insert it in a native application that just understand plain Unicode

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lt br gt  seems to be the best and only way that currently works on the app version to create a new line break  I have tried it successfully in a review  as well as unsuccessfully tried all other Unicode HTML newline-related characters that the Wikipedia page for newlines would tell me  I used  lt br gt  with   immediately on either side  using no closing tag  and it magically created a single line break without revealing the source or screwing anything up   TLDR   lt br gt  lets you successfully utilize single line breaks in Google Play app -- unlike everything else I tried  a lot    P S  I have no clue how to make the thing show source instead of being used as source      Now I do  and I know it works on both the desktop and mobile sites      Additionally  upon searching for how to make it show the source  I stumbled upon this    lt del gt  lt  del gt

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Currently  July 2015   HTML escape sequences   amp bull   amp  8226   do not work in browser version of Play Store  they re displayed as text  Though  Play Store app handles them as expected   So  if you re after the unicode bullet point in your app update description  that s what s got you here  most likely   just copy-paste the bullet character         PS You can also use unicode input combo to get the character  Linux  CtrlShiftu 2022 Enter or Space  Mac  Hold   2022 release    Windows  Hold Alt 2022 release Alt  Mac and Windows require some setup  read on Wikipedia  PPS If you re feeling creative  here s a good link with more copypastable symbols  but don t go too crazy  nobody likes clutter in what they read

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This is not bullet but you can consider it  As there is nothing like big dot   I used below symbol in the description and its working fine      Black Circle   New Moon   Full Moon   Diamond With a Dot   Small Orange Diamond    Gear   Black Flag   White Flag    Play Button    Fast-Forward Button    Heavy Large Circle    Eight-Pointed Star    Black Medium Square    White Medium-Small Square    Black Medium-Small Square    Black Large Square  You just need to copy and paste it over description  Below is the result

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Another alternative to cut  copy and paste emojis is   https   emojicut com

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Title  Short Description and Developer Name  HTML formatting is not supported in these fields  but you can include UTF-8 symbols and Emoji      Full Description and What   s New   For the Long Description and What   s New Section  there is a wider variety of HTML codes you can apply to format and structure your text  However  they will look slightly different in Google Play Store app and web  Here is a table with codes that you can use for formatting Description and What   s New fields for your app on Google Play  originally appeared on ASO Stack blog     Also you can refer this    https   thetool io 2020 html-emoji-google-play

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Include emojis  copy and paste them to the description   http   getemoji com

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