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It's a very simple question.

I've published an app , and in the description I have some bullets that need to have indentation.

How do I add indentation to the app's description on the play store?

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OK, I've found a workaround:

for empty space, use "&#8195"; . just put this string as it is inside the play store description.

For example, if you wish to put a bullet with 2 spaces before it, use (without the '"') .

"  •"

This is based on this post.

Also, you can just put the real character instead (without the '"'):

" "
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Looking through the description of even Google published apps, this doesn't appear to be possible via markup - you simply have to do the bullets yourself, which looks ok for one level, but as you have found not very extendable to multi level bullets.

For example

I suggest that rather than use bullets and then hyphens as your 2 levels, you try how you think bullets and two bullet characters look as your two levels.

EDIT: A previous answer detailed the HTML tags you can use, so one possible workaround is to have your first level bullets say be bold (using <b>) and the second level bullets normal or italic (Using <i>).

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  • Is there maybe blank characters that can be used ? like whitespaces ? – android developer Mar 21 '14 at 14:16
  • As far as I can tell, all whitespace at the start of a paragraph is stripped, and what you think of as bulleted lines are each treated as their own paragraph – zmarties Mar 21 '14 at 14:21
  • Isn't there any way to overcome this? Any workaround whatsoever? I know for sure that there are some HTML tags that are supported. Isn't there any tag for this? – android developer Mar 21 '14 at 14:47
  • All the advice that Google gives is simply that you can have up to 4000 characters. I've never found any HTML tags that work - what ones do you think have an effect? – zmarties Mar 21 '14 at 14:58
  • OK - I've found the previous answer that mentioned HTML tags, which I see you have already commented on. http://stackoverflow.com/a/18746972/3383428 – zmarties Mar 21 '14 at 15:26