I want to publish my Xamarin.Forms App to Google Play Store. But when I upload the APK it gives me warning and disables roll-out option. It says we need to use Android App Bundle (.aab) format so that APK can be optimized for size and resources.
Currently, Visual Studio 2019 Archive option does not support the Android App Bundle. I have taken latest update of Visual Studio 2019 but still above format is not supported.
I googled and found some link to do this from the command prompt by modifying some settings in the Project file. But the build returns errors after couple of minutes with exit code 1.
This is frustrating as I can't publish it to Google Play Store. I have already published the iOS version of App.
Any help here will be very much appreciated.
Me and my team are currently releasing to Google Play with no problems our app as APK.
The App Boundle is a nice way to release smaller applications by delivering just what the device that downloads your application needs. The Xamarin Show published recently a video on this topic, that could be of interest for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IOZ0SUKZq4
Through the following images i show how we upload/publish our APK:
First, in the image below you see that APKs are still supported:
APK uploads correctly:
Then we are able to save and review the APK:
APK is uploaded with warning:
The warning states:
For now we just ignore the warning and go on to roll out:
In case that after following those steps your Start Rollout option is not yet enabled, it might be the case that you still have some other Listing Sections for your Application. After you introduce all the information required by Google, the Start Rollout option must be available.
I am developing an Android game and currently trying to integrate with Google Play Game Services. I got stuck at the sign-on feature.
I use GoogleSignIn, getIntent, startActivityForResult etc. - all as described in Google manual. I think all's setup correctly, because when I build the app, deploy to Google Store (Internal Tests), and then I install it from there, all looks good: onActivityResult is called with result.isSuccess()==true and GoogleSignIn.getLastSignedInAccount returns != null.
The problem is when I try to run the app from Android Studio (or install APK manually). In this case, onActivityResult is called with SIGN_IN_REQUIRED and getLastSignedInAccount is always null. I am pretty sure all's setup fine (APK is signed, Android Studio is configured to sign the APKs etc.).
To ensure it's not about my Android Studio setup, I have installed manually exactly the same APK which I uploaded to Google Store but again - result is the same. When installed from Google Store, it's OK, when installed manually it's not (again: exactly the same APK binary).
Can you please help me? Theoretically I could continue development, but each I'd like to test something I'd need to upload new version to Google Store...
Thank you
Hmmm...its usual DEVELOPER ERROR, what you can do it..add your SHA1 code on firebase console, and it will work, it is showing this behaviour caus your signed key SHA1 is already added, that why it is working on release build and not on debug build, add your systems SHA1
How to get SHA1?
usually right side of android studio have a bar which says gradle click on it, expand it got to app>Tasks>android>signing report double click it...it will give you your SHA1, paste it on firebase console, wait for 1-2 minutes and check. It will work.
I've found the following error when running my android application in android studio. app couldn't get installed on my device because of this error. Didn't find the solution :(
please help
Auth: [GoogleAccountDataServiceImpl] getToken() failed.
Status BAD_AUTHENTICATION,
Account: ,
App:com.android.vending,
Service: androidmarket com.google.android.gms.auth.be.account.b.d: Long live credential not
available.
I had the same issue what helped me was that I had wrong credentials in my google-services.json file and after getting a new file my problem was fixed.
in the process of resolving this issue I also updated my google play services but I do not think this is necessary .
I got this error when tried to install app directly from Android Studio.
It was due to certificate mismatch, since I used release certificate for setting up the app in Play Console, while Android Studio signs the app with debug certificate by default.
Installing app via adb resolved the error.
https://developers.google.com/games/services/android/quickstart#step_4_test_your_game
Make sure to run an APK that you exported and signed with a
certificate that matches one of the certificates you used during the
application setup in Google Play Console.
I have the same problem some days ago. I just compile my whole code in a new project and Problem Solved!!.
Don't know what was the real problem. There is an issue filed here, with no solution.
There are several reasons you can get that message:
The account you are trying to log on with needs to be re-authenticated on the phone (try a different account)
The gms:play-services version is out of date (needs to be 15+ as of Jan 2021)
Your app fingerprint is not the right one. You need one for dev builds, different one for prod -- which is different based on how you sign (do you have the final publish key, or does Play store re-sign with the final publish key?)
Follow the Google tutorial and get their stand-alone project, it should take 20 min, and check your setup there. If you are running it with all the right accounts it should work. Then go back to your app.
https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/android/start
I updated Google Play Services on my phone and stopped receiving the same error. I am importing com.google.android.gms:play-services-cast:9.6.1 and analytics:9.6.1. Not sure if the version running on the device was too low but problem is now resolved but not sure how to prevent this error for users running older versions of Google Play Services.
Tested the other solutions but nothing worked. Rebooted the device and error was gone.
If you using firebase server, As per the firebase updation if you give phone number authentication put your country code before contact number it is mendetory.
example - +91 9999998888
This happened to me, auth errors in ADB, among them:
android Warn Auth [GoogleAuthUtil] GoogleAuthUtil
Because, like mentioned above, I had a debug build running on phone previously. So I fully uninstalled the app on my phone, and the next [Build and Run] ran successfully.
Please try the App with new google credentials or even try creating the whole peoject on console og google play services if you have used it .
In my case it was a dependency version problem. I had to update the auth dependency for firebase to the latest one:
implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:17.0.0'
Here is my take towards this problem:
You may be using a single email to try and log in to google. It may be possible you might have changed the password of the particular email in the recent past. Make sure u remove your google-email from your phone/emulator. When u re-run your application, you will be asked to enter both email and password credentials.
Check if your credentials.json is still valid. Sometimes its possible that your client ID might be removed/corrupted if you have not used your android application for a long time. Make a new one and dont forget to copy-paste it in app folder of Android Project view.
PS: I am new to Android Studio and writing answers on stackoverflow in general. If you are reading this comment please let me know what improvements i can make while answering questions in the future.
I copied and ran the code in a different project that had priorly worked on simple DB operations of Firebase. Probably it already had the authentication files in place so launching the app was solved there
Mostly your token has gone bad. And needs a new one.
Go to project database > settings > General > download Json file and replace it with the one in the local project directory.
I fixed this problem with updating fingerprints (sha1 or sha256)
My problem was with Microsoft App Center.
We recently set our pipelines to send aab files to App Center, instead of apk files.
It seems that our bundle was resigned by App Center with some generated keystore. That's how App Center distributed apk files, even though our pipeline uploaded aab files.
In other words: even though our pipeline is using our own keystore to sign the aab bundle, in order to distribute through the App Center, after sending the aab to App Center, the App Center is creating universal apks with another generated keystore.
After rolling back our pipeline to send apk instead of aab, Google SignIn on our react-native app with firebase was working again.
"When you distribute Android Application Bundle (AAB), App Center generates a universal APK, signs it with a generated signing key, and distributes it to a device."
Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/appcenter/distribution/uploading
I am developing an Android Application using Xamarin.Android in Xamarin Studio. It uses Google Play Game Services.
The project has run and tested find up until this point. Yesterday I upgraded my development PC from Windows 7 to Windows 8.1. In the process I also had to reinstall Xamarin Studio.
Now when my app attempts to connect to Google Play, it fails with error "RESULT_APP_MISCONFIGURED" which as far as I can tell means that my app is not properly authorized to access the Google Play API. However, nothing has actually changed.
I tested an older version of the app, and it is still able to connect to the Google Play API. Nothing in the code itself has changed, so I think it must be something to do with my recently upgrade of Windows, or the recent re-install of Xamarin Studio.
Any thoughts on what would help narrow down the problem? Is it possible the debug keystore has changed somehow?
An additional clue: when I attempt to build an deploy to a device that has the older, working version of the app on it, I get the following error:
Deployment failed because of an internal error: Failure
[INSTALL_FAILED_UPDATE_INCOMPATIBLE]
I then have to manually uninstall the old version before the new one can be deployed.
As has already been pointed out, the debug keystore won't be the same on all installations of Xamarin.Android. Which is expected behavior.
When using Play Services you want to create a keystore, preferably one for debug and one for release, or as different aliases in the same keystore (you figure that out).
Then you can make the build process automagically sign your app by adding some stuff to your .csproj file. You can read more about this in the docs.
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">
<AndroidKeyStore>True</AndroidKeyStore>
<AndroidSigningKeyStore>public.keystore</AndroidSigningKeyStore>
<AndroidSigningStorePass>MyKeystorePassword</AndroidSigningStorePass>
<AndroidSigningKeyAlias>MyKey</AndroidSigningKeyAlias>
<AndroidSigningKeyPass>MyKeyPassword</AndroidSigningKeyPass>
</PropertyGroup>
You can make a similar block for Debug as well choosing either another alias or another keystore.
Yes, debug keystore is part of the Xamarin installation and it changes if you reinstall Xamarin. You need to update the key signature on Google console, this time create a keystore and keep it hidden, keep it safe (so to speak).
I'm using unity android, and I'm trying to upload my app.
It's a 80Mo app, so I had to split it.
Here is how I set up the Other Settings in player prefs (unity3d):
Bundle identifier: com.CompanyName.APKName (that's an example obviously )
Bundle Version: 1.0
Bundle Version Code: 1
Minimum API: (lowest) 2.0.1
Device filter: Armv7 only
Install Location: Prefer Extern
Graphics Level: OpenGL ES 2.0
Internet: Auto
Write Access: Internal only
API: .NET 2.0 subs
The product name is different than the APK name.
My files are named:
- APK: APKName
- Expansion file: main.1.com.CompanyName.APKName
In the build settings, nothing is changed (Development Build is still False).
(I'm not using a patch file).
My problem is that when I upload the APK Expansion file, it gets stuck on "processing". Apparently it's an internal error that occurs, and google play is failing the upload but doesn't display anything on the screen. I've been trying to upload that for days now and I can't find anything that helps online.
EDIT: On chrome I get stuck to processing and with firefox, I get stuck to 99%...
I've see theses post StackOveflow post 1 StackOverflow post2 but nothing changes for me.
I'm following this tutorial: tutorial unity to google play
EDIT: I can't access my app through the old console... I get the following message:"Failed to load application list. Try again later."
Thanks for the help
Boris
Ok I did it!!!
I had to create another version of my app with a higher version number. Then I went to the old console, as my app wasn't accessible through the old console I had to upload again my first APK by clicking on upload apk. Once uploaded the old console shows an error saying that there is already an app with that package name. After closing the error message the app is accessible through the old console and therefore from there I was able to upload my version 2 (the new one) APK + main OBB. After that, from the old console, I deactivated the old version and deleted it. I went back to the new console design and this is it !!!!
Sorry for posting with a second account I'll delete the first one.
if you keep example work in you application package name you cannot upload apk into google play..