Improving an Android App's Google Play Screenshots
May 6, 2017 11:53 AM   Subscribe

The screenshots of our Android app (in Google Play sales page) look like absolute crap on cheaper devices, and we can't figure out what to do.

The app is texty, and so are the screenshots. They were shot hi-res, on a Nexus6P, but look like fuzzy crap on all cheap Android devices (but perfectly sharp viewed on Nexus6P and other high quality devices).

It appears that Google's process degrades image quality in a way that affects cheap devices much more than fancy ones (it involves converting PNGs to their proprietary WEBP format), and this is much more noticeable with text than with graphical elements.

Google Play screenshots of other text-heavy apps - e.g. New York Times and Wall Street Journal - show similarly fuzzy text on cheap devices, so we're not very hopeful.

Any suggestions for making texty screenshots look decent on cheap phones without degrading appearance on good phones?
posted by Quisp Lover to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)
 
Response by poster: Thanks, WCityMike. No, we just gave up. Figured if NY Times puts up with it, we need to, as well. Also, zero responses on AskMeFi generally indicates window-tilting.

But we may try your suggestion, thanks! :)
posted by Quisp Lover at 4:51 PM on May 13, 2017


Response by poster: Nope, Google won't accept WEBP.
posted by Quisp Lover at 1:02 PM on May 14, 2017


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