I've noticed this
Google Play is regularly slower now than App Store Connect, which never used to be the case
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
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Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#22F-Droid's great but their build queue has had multi week waits too, difference is you can see exactly where your build is stuck instead of guessing.
You can also choose to host your own repositories like futo and new pipe do.
Hopefully the process is straight forward so others can easily pick it up.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#23Not sure how it works behind the scene, but our app (present on the store since 2018) is taking a couple hours at best with Google, and usually less than 24h with Apple.
Very much likely an automated triage based on code change or complexity.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#24A public FTP server is next app store.
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#25AnkiDroid (~17 years old) submitted our latest alpha on Sept 03, 2026, 4:40 am. Still pending review.
thanks for your app! using it for learning danish and finding it very useful.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#26Why can't you wait for a week? That doesn't sound like a long time.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#27Why can't you wait for a week? That doesn't sound like a long time.
For a critical bug fix, a week can be a very long time.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#28F-Droid's great but their build queue has had multi week waits too, difference is you can see exactly where your build is stuck instead of guessing.
You can also choose to host your own repositories like futo and new pipe do.
Part of the value of F-Droid is the curated distribution model that hopefully catches the worst behaving developers that think they have a god given right to your data though.
Re: The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
#29AnkiDroid (~17 years old) submitted our latest alpha on Sept 03, 2026, 4:40 am. Still pending review.
thanks for your app! using it for learning danish and finding it very useful.
Team effort, but thank you!! I've just taken the next month and a half off to work on things full time. I'm excited!
The next update won't be huge, (Google required us to make all screens 'edge to edge'[0], which took up most of my time last month). I'm hoping for some solid improvements now that's out the way, once the release pipeline has returned to normal.
Feel free to get in touch if you fancy contributing.
[0] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/layout/edge-t...
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