My app is on Google Play for a week. Original apk size was about 40MB. Few days later I updated the app and now it's 46MB. And here problem begins: users, to update the app, need to download 46MB, not something around 6MB.
I think it isn't okay, as other apps in PlayStore only download needed data and not whole new apk. So: am I doing something wrong or should I turn on something in Play Dev Console?
Play Store tries to download deltas of your changes when updating an app, not the whole APK. See this article for some of these optimization, including some tips.
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Few weeks back I uploaded first version of my app to google play. Everything, including updates, worked great until now.
When I install apk directly to my phone everything works as expected I have 0 High score, google achievements works and ad is showing.
But when I dowload the SAME apk from google play(after I published it) the game shows highscore of 60 and neither achievements or ad are showing. (I am using Unity and its playerPrefs system of saving data).
I went and investigate the situation and I found out something weird to me.
In the artefact library I downloaded my apk and there are 2 types.
1) The one that I uploaded
2)One tha google somehow edited
Somehow the 2. apk diferes A LOT from what I uploaded.. Namely the uploaded state of highscore(even some other saved stuf)
It is possible that I forget to clear playerPrefs in earlier version, but NOT in this one.
How is it posible that google somehow merges my new apk with older one?
And when I am uploading new apk I dont keep the old ones, I am deactivating them so where is the problem.. It is my first published app and I dont know some of the "advanced wording".So please if you know what is happening go slow on me ;)
(Sure I missed something :/ )
Thanks for all help.
Google doesn't modify APKs uploaded to the Play Console. The fact that you observe a different behaviour of your app related to gaming suggests that maybe your integration with the game library has some issues.
Overall, given that we don't know the setup of your console and your releases, you would have more luck reaching out to the Play Console support team.
I have a app on Google play store.
I want to put it update version on play store.For that i have just incremented app version code from AndroidManifest.xml.And upload that version on Google play store.
All is going fine and my app uploaded successfully on store.
What the updated version is not showing so far instead the old application is appearing.
So how much time it take to get upload perfectly so that users got the updated version.?
It takes 3-4 hrs to update an application in google playstore.wait for couple of hours,you will get it.All the best. :)
Normally its takes 3-4 hour for an app to get updated. But some times it may take more then that due to more traffic.
I am working on an Adobe air based Android app. Since it's over 50MB, I have a separate obb file. At the moment my app is not published, still there as draft, and I need to test the obb downloading functionnalities before moving on.
So, does anyone know of any way to download an app from the store that is there as draft? I tried adding my own google group to the testers list, but it seems like a publish is required as well.
Am I just missing something about the draft mode? It seems pretty useless if you can't even make sure that what you uploaded is actually functionnal before publishing.
I want to update the APK file on Google play store.
After uploading new APK file, i clicked Activate, It asked whether to replace the previous APK file, i clicked ok. Then i get this:
But when i refresh the page i again get the 1st Image. Moreover if i search for my Application, and click on it, It shows Version as 1.0, not 1.0.1.
Is it because, Google takes time to process this? If thats the case, it atleast shouldn't show the 2 APK files, which looks like i didn't Activate it.
Thank You
It takes some time to actually get to play market. Couple hours maybe.
You can see your old APK in advanced mode.
After Activate new uploaded apk save the changes you have done. may this help you
I activated a new version of my application on Google Play approximately 3 hours ago. The information about it already been updated (description, screenshots) but the apk not yet, continue the old version. It is normal to happen?
Make sure after you uploaded the APK, you 'activate' it. Just by uploading it, changing description and save it won't update the APK itself, you are just updating the description.
What I normally do is after uploading a new APK, I update the What's New section, go back to activate the APK and then finally hit 'Save' button.
Before Google Play, the APK update is almost instantaneous. But lately, new APK updates takes at least 1 to 4 hours to get updated on Google Play website.
UPDATE: nevermind, saw you 'activated' a new version in the question.
It will take more time to update the apk, generally I have seen anytime between 1-12 hrs, depending on the time of day you update the apk. Apk is updated once or twice a day. If you are lucky to update your apk just before the internal process updates then your will see it updated very soon.
Text and Picture on the other hand are just html that is rendered, so it is updated right away.
I try to update late night before or around 12 midnight, then by next morning 9am (london time), it is updated in google play / market.
Sometimes I have updated at 8am london time and it is reflected updated by around 10am!
HTH
I had a similar issue where my tester was able to see the production version of my app in Play Store but not the new Beta version update even though it was uploaded many hours before and available to other Beta testers as an update.
I had added him as a Beta tester to my Google Group, also added as a test user in my Google Play Store account. The solution was to force stop Play Store then restart it again.
The Beta Update was available as soon as he went back into the play store and searched for the app.