Google had indicated that it will make it mandatory for developers to add content ratings for all apps in Android Market. On the official Android Developer blog, the company noted that the content ratings will provide users with additional information to help them select the best applications for them. In the past, Apple has faced troubled waters with the un-rated sleazy content in the iOS Apps. Hence, with iOS 3.0 update implementation, Apple has made it mandatory for developers to give appropriate rating to apps.

Content ratings are important and an easy way to separate the apps meant for mature audience only. With update in Android Market Developer Content Policy, we believe, Google is actually preparing for the launch of Android 2.3 Gingerbread update. In the coming weeks, Android App Developers will have to provide any of the four content rating levels - All, Pre-teen, Teen and Mature. For more details about each rating level, check out this link.

With Gingerbread 2.3 on the anvil, Google is once again indirectly preaching the "do no evil" ideology. Content ratings will relieve concerned parents about their kids staying away from objectionable and emotionally disturbing (at least for the pre-teens) content. Google believes that the developers themselves are ultimately responsible for the content rating of an app.

We'll get to see content ratings in all the Android Apps in coming weeks.