Does anyone know how to "embellish" the app description in the play store? For example put "news", format text, etc.
See the example below:
Experimentally, I've found that you can use:
<b>...</b>
to bold, <i>...</i>
to italic, <u>...</u>
for underline, <br />
to force a single line break http://google.com
appears as a hyperlink.
(Caution when attempting to use a <a>
HTML tag with custom description because does not works and breaks formatting) →
(→), ™
(™) and ®
(®); see this W3 reference for the full list. Special notes regarding Google play apps :
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to indent a paragraph of the text, <blockquote>...</blockquote>
for a text is slightly smaller, <small>...</small>
and <sup>...</sup>
for super- and subscripts. <sub>...</sub>
to set the font color in HEX encoding. Google Play site specials :
<font color="#000000">...</font>
for shaving. Retrieved from link