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Code Readability Requirements

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  1. Developers must not obfuscate code or conceal functionality of their extension. This also applies to any external code or resource fetched by the extension package. Minification is allowed, including the following forms:

    1. Removal of whitespace, newlines, code comments, and block delimiters

    2. Shortening of variable and function names

    3. Collapsing files together

Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.

Last updated 2022-11-01 UTC.

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