Is there a way to remove an update from the Google Developer Console?
Players that already have downloaded that update can keep it, but for those who haven't, I don't want them to download it as well.
My current "solution" to this is to just push an old version of the app signed with a new version number to the Developer Console, but I guess there's a better way, which I haven't figured out yet.
Thanks in advance.
In the Google Play Developer Console, select your application and select the "APK" menu option. This should display the current and previous versions of your APK. If you then click the "Switch to advanced mode" button, a "Move to Prod" button should appear next to previous APK versions. If able, these should allow you to move previous versions of your APK in production.
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I uploaded an apk in play store in the morning and it's live now but i saw a crash in the same apk. I have fixed the bug and rolled out a new version but it will take time to be shown in play store.
I don't want anyone to download the previous version which already is live and crashing. How can I unpublish that?
In the current version of the Google Play store Console here is the procedure of unpublishing your app.
Go to your "play.google.com" dashboard.
Select your app
In left menu item select "Store presence"
Then, select "Pricing & distribution"
Click "Unpublish" in the "App Availability" section
when you want to publish a new version follow the above step and in the last step select option "publish" your application is live with the latest version.
I have set up my app and prepared open beta using the Android Developer Console, but now I want to know how many have signed up for the beta. Is it possible to:
See how many signed up for open beta?
See who (by email) signed up for open beta?
I tried a google search, but all that appeared was information about alpha/beta testing and how to use it. There was nothing on seeing who/how many signed up for it.
Is this possible?
Update (August 2022)
There's an additional option if you go to Statistics. Configure the report by "Users -> Installed audience -> All Users" OR "Device -> Install base -> All devices" (note, you can click "Select another metric" to view both). Then click "View By" and select "App version". Use the filter chips to display your version. Scroll to the bottom to see the data table, the latest date row can show you exactly how many users/devices have your app with that version.
Update (December 2021): As commented by #alexislg, the testers count isn't there any longer. If you open "Open Testing" (or another track), and if you have testers, the count will show up in the summary toward the top.
Original answer (2020): With the update to the redesign (as of Oct. 12 2020), just go to the Releases section and click Releases overview. You'll see how many testers are currently enrolled for each track.
Yes, you can see how many users have enrolled to be beta testers. You need to go under the "Beta testing" tab in the "APK" section. See screenshot:
You can't see the user email though.
With recent changes, you can check number of beta testers using Release Management option.
Select your app -> Release -> Testing -> Open testing
Statistics > Devices > Install base
View by: App version
The button "+ App version" gives you a select that has the exact number of installs for every version.
This way you can determine how many people run your latest beta build.
So google has changed their publishing interface so that Recent changes no longer goes under Store Listing but under a specific apk. The problem is, I don't see where to add those comments in the apk that is actually in production. For the unpublished APKs I can just go in "Show details". Does anyone know how to add those comments for the APK that is actually serving in production?
Go to https://play.google.com/apps/publish
Click on your application
Click on APK in the left menu
Click on the version you have in production
Scroll down to What's new in this version?
Click on the seemingly-uneditable text. It should become editable.
Save
As title states. I clicked on "Publish" in the google play developer console. And it said my app now got uploaded. But I dont know which apk file was uploaded. How can I find out?
EDIT: I am 100% signed in correctly. Here is an image of the tabs on the left.
In the tab with the android robot picture, it says I have no applications. But in the tab with the google controller thing, I can click on my app, look at the game details, leaderboards, achievements etc and I can click publish but I dont know what it's publishing...
Go to your Developer Console (All Applications) and then click on the app. On the left, there is a list of things to choose (Statistics, etc.) so click on APK.
That will tell you everything about the version and version code of the APK. You can click on the latest version to get some details on it, and at the top of the page it even tells you the package name.
You can by checking the version of the app. Click on all apps -> apk, then you see a list of apk's you uploaded and the current version number.
Are you sure that your app is on play store and not only in play game?
If you upload it with your account should be appared in the tab with android's icon
How to publish beta test-version in Android play store ?
I'm trying to allow beta test my phonegap build app in the android play store. I already uploaded a signed apk in the beta tab and added a google+ group with some users inside ... but I'm slightly surprised that I cannot find how to install or even find this app on the testers smartphones. I opted myself as user in the group but cant see a link to the app or something like that. Shouldn't the app be already visible to beta users in the app store? Or do I have to push the publish button? The info popup tells:
"Your app can only be used by your testers when it is published to Google Play.
If your app has no production APK then it will only be visible to Alpha and Beta
testers. The link that your testers can use to opt-in will be displayed here when
you have published your app."
Sounds to me that it should be published. But doesn't it mean that the beta apk will be moved to the published-area and not being then a beta any more? I'm afraid that the app will be then visible to all users in the play store not only for my beta testers.
Could someone explain me how to publish a beta for my testers only?
EDIT:
It seems that everything I need is the opt-in link that is missing. Any idea why?
In order to be able to get the link to share with your group you have to first press the "Publish" button in the upper right. After doing this you will see the link to share with users appear as brheal shows above.
I'm adding this graphic to the discussion to help clarify exactly which one to press and which to not press.
Per the discussion above I was still a bit worried about pressing the publish button. I just did it and it works.
For more clarity I thought I'd share what it looks like. After publishing your beta apk you have to wait up to 24 hours (it took mine about 12) and then go to 'Manage list of testers' in your 'Beta Testing' tab. When it's ready you will see the opt in link available to share:
This is really an issue Google should address ASAP. You enter the console hoping to find the sections but the documentation says something else altogether. I just solved this and found the link, here are the steps updated with the current UI of the console which is not matching the documentation:
Open Google Play Console
Open your app
In the left panel go to Release management -> App releases
Scroll down to Open track, Closed track or Internal test track section according to your case, click Manage
Go to the section Manage testers and click Internal test
At the bottom you will see the link if everything is properly configured and the app is published.
VERY IMPORTANT
You need to configure the internal test list, I assume that if you
are looking for the link you've already done this.
The app needs to be published, remember it takes some hours, otherwise you won´t be able to see the link.
Here are the screenshots:
Not enough points to comment, hence a separate answer.
My suggestion is to upload a new build after setting up the beta testing.
I created a new app and rolled out the Beta version of the app.
After that I enabled the "Closed Beta testing" for a list of users - alas no opt-in link was ever generated.
After scratching my head a bit I released a NEW build which generated the opt-in link immediately.
I figured that enabling the "Closed Beta testing" AFTER the Beta version was released could have caused the issue and is maybe why the UI is constructed the way it is.... just a guess.
Try and release a new build.