Google announced earlier this week that it would soon be implementing a content rating system in the Android Market. The new ratings would designate appropriate age ranges for each new and currently existing app in the Market (a feature not currently present in Apple’s iTunes App Store).

According to a developer advocate at Google, the new rating system has now gone live with Google’s Android developer tools. Starting now, developers will have to select one of four ratings – All, Pre-Teen, Teen, or Mature – before they can submit apps to the Market. Developers will also have to go through their current catalogs and assign ratings to each app therein. The ratings are not currently visible to end users while browsing the Android Market, though the system is planned to go live within the next few weeks. Any apps that have not been rated by developers by the time Google’s new ratings system becomes visible for end users will be designated as mature, which may potentially hurt sales.

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Source: Droid Gamers

Authors: TechHead

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