When updating an App in Play Store, one can put a "What's new" or "What has changed" text in all supported languages to the update. The input field appears when you "upload new APK" in the Developer Console.
Many people miss this text, because there is often more than one update available across all installed Apps on the device, and the user clicks "Update all" in most cases, not looking at the individual update notes.
Now I want to access the text I put in this What's new section from my app-update from within my App, to present it to the user when he starts the App the next time - in the language of the user.
Is there any API or dynamic link to play store to gain access to this text? What would be the best approach here?
What I have tried:
I looked at the html source of a play store page of one of my apps and found out, that there is a div-tag, that has always the same name (or class, to be exact) and it also appears only once in the entire html source of the page:
<div class="recent-change">
so parsing from this to the next closing div tag would give me the text... but loading a 10-30kb html page for parsing 200 characters seems odd...
Is there a better approach?
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