Inline Install API eligibility criteria for apps

This page describes the eligibility criteria for apps to use the Inline Install API. In addition to meeting the criteria, developers must integrate the API and accept the Terms of Service in Play Console.

Eligibility criteria

To qualify for access to this premium growth tool, you must provide a high-quality and trustworthy user experience, and you must be a developer in good standing on Google Play. In addition, the app that is to be installed must be of sufficiently high quality.

The following table describes all of the criteria to be met:

Criteria Definition
Both caller-app and app that is to be installed are high-quality apps.

Google Play cares about app quality and uses various signals to evaluate users' experience of your app. Apps are only eligible for the Inline Install API if they meet a minimum quality bar.

You can read more about how we evaluate the following:

  1. Play's definition of quality
  2. Requirements for core value engagement metrics
  3. Technical quality requirements, including more detail on ANRs and crashes

You can also see Android vitals overview to learn how Play is evaluating your app's quality and which quality recommendations to prioritize next.
Caller-app meets eligibility criteria for premium growth tools.

All app categories are eligible for the Inline Install API, as long as other premium growth tool criteria are met.

See Google Play Premium growth tools to learn more about these eligibility criteria.
Caller-app ensures appropriate use of the Inline Install API. Google Play wants to provide users with contextual and seamless journeys. If we see that the Inline Install API is inappropriately used, we may revoke use.