This question have a lot of responses already but none of it helps me
I created an Android app and it says that I can't install it on tablet. If I run project from Android Studio on tablet it works perfectly.Also it doesn't find the app by name only on the tablet.
On desktop when open my app's page:
On tablet when open my app's page using a direct link:
My tablet has Android 4.4.2
in app gradle file:
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 23
in app manifest I am using:
<!--for IMEI -> is not a must to have gsm-->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.launcher.permission.UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<!--is not a must to have autofocus or even camera-->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus"
android:required="false" />
<!--to support all screens-->
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
"For your app to be showcased in the 'Designed for tablets' list in the Play Store, you need to upload at least one 7-inch and one 10-inch screenshot. If you previously uploaded screenshots, make sure to move them into the right area below." This can be found when you are setting the distribution for your app on google play. If you do not provide a screenshot for this screen, Google will set your app just for phones.
Does your tablet have gps? If not you should probably add:
<uses-feature android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION"
android:required="false" />
And also try adding xlargeScreens to true.
Check if your tablet is set in supported devicess.
Go to Play Dev Console, then click on APK, then under supported devices click 'see list' and navigate to Samsung to check if your device is set.
Alternatively in same APK section click on your current app version and in popup, check if your language (and region) are supported in Localizations section.
Both cases might checkout to be OK, but never hurts to check :)
Related
I have searched through the google but could not find any reason why google play showing support for only 45% devices it support to 90 to 92 percent devices on the play store
here my manifest permissions
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.READ_PROFILE"
android:required="false" />
<uses-permission
android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS"
android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.android.vending.BILLING" />
but google play showing some extra permissions am also wondering why play store showing this
Also i have a question that can google play filtering apps on camera flash or flash light availability?
any help will be appreciated thanks
You likely have a library that uses those other features. In particular, it looks as though you have a library that uses the camera and thus adds the camera, microphone, flash, and autofocus features.
You can easily identify the library that is adding these features by looking at the manifest merger report generated by Gradle. This is located at app/build/outputs/logs. The manifest merger report text file there will list out every manifest element pulled in from different manifest files and which file they came from.
If you truly do not require those features, you can declare your own <uses-feature> elements with the android:required attribute set to false.
Please try to add the following to your manifest, please change the required in order of your functionalities:
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera"
android:required="true" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.camera.flash"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.microphone"
android:required="false" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.screen.portrait"
android:required="false" />
Also, why is your api lvl 16+? If you switch to 15+ you will have a lot of more devices.
I developed a wearable app, worked fine on my devices (Nexus 5, Samsung Gear Live and Moto 360) and put on playstore. However, when I browse the app on PlayStore, it said "No eligible devices for app install".
These are the permissions:
Phone:
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BODY_SENSORS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE" />
Wear:
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BODY_SENSORS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
I already tried this:
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
android:required="true" />
For both apps, still no luck. How to solve this problem? Thanks.
Edit: if you want to try the app, here is the link
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepalert.heartrate
Edit 2:
For wear, I used this pair
minSdkVersion 20
targetSdkVersion 21
For mobile, I used this (those are defaults when I generated my project)
minSdkVersion 17
targetSdkVersion 21
Edit 3: after I remove the GET_TASKS permission as suggested, the app can be installed on my device running LolliPop 5, but not on my friend LolliPop 5.1, which is annoying since the newer one is supposed to be backwards compatible. Then if I change targetSdk to 22, it works on both. So in all, it's fine now. Hope helpful to somebody facing this crazy mess.
it seems that my phone is also not compatible. i would suggest you try to check if the app is avaliable in every country or has any restriction (being still in beta we should have acces to it ,thought), and check if all the permissions are necessary , could be that one of them , like GET_TASKS, wich is deprecated ( developer.android.com/reference/android/… ) could be blocking.
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Have published the app on the google play store. Able to download and install on android phones.
But the app is not at all listed in Play store for tablet devices.
i suspect there is something wrong in my manifest file.
contents of the manifest file are
<supports-screens
android:anyDensity="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:resizeable="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
Please guide me with the changes which i have to make so that the app gets listed on Play Store for Tablet devices.
thanks in advance
There are two reason, I know, why my app doesn't be shown on Play Store.
The device's OS version is lower than you specified using "minsdkversion" on Androidmanifest.xml.
Permission things. If you declared permissions of Phone Call, Camera etc, and Tablet that not have those hardware, Users cannot find my app on Google Play Store for their device.
So, We should add some code to Androidmanifast.xml like below.
<uses-feature
android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
android:required="false" >
</uses-feature>
For more informations, check this Q/A.
,this document and this.
After #Lal's answer i did a simple test. I added the permissions below and upload a simple apk. Manifest is like below.
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SEND_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_LOGS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.fingerprints.service.ACCESS_FINGERPRINT_MANAGER" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA"/>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.USE_FINGERPRINT" />
<uses-permission android:name="com.samsung.android.providers.context.permission.WRITE_USE_APP_FEATURE_SURVEY" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" android:required="false" />
I uploaded app to play store and i can install for tablet. Then i removed
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" android:required="false" />
and tried to update play store app and there was a warning that tablets cant download after this update. I took screenshot, may be some one can need this.
and this is details.
After published update, i could not install for tablet.
Does anyone know how you can see why Google Play Store is marking specific devices for an app you created as 'not compatible' ?
I created an app and one of my testdevices was a GalaxyTab2. On this device all functions of the app are working no problem when you just put the apk on the device using a USB cable/or just downloading it from a website.
However when I upload the app to playstore the GalaxyTab2 is listed as an unsupported device. So GalaxyTab2 users are unable to install the app.
In the Google Play Developer Console you can see an overview of unsupported devices. But it seems that you can't get any info 'why' the device is unsupported.
This currenlty lists 1000 devices. Of these a lot will be unsupported due to the fact that their Android version is too old. But from some devices (like the GalaxyTab 2) I am sure they can and run the apk no problem.
Some lines of my manifest:
<supports-screens android:smallScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:largeScreens="true"
android:xlargeScreens="true" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FLASHLIGHT" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="9"
android:targetSdkVersion="16" />
Try adding:
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.flash" android:required="false" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" android:required="false" />
To your manifest. Your FLASHLIGHT permission may imply that it is a required feature, and as the Galaxy Tab 2 doesn't have a flash, it'd be incompatible. Same for autofocus, as pointed out by #323go.
The problem can be with the feature requirements for certain permissions.
For example
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
may include the requirement of AutoFocus, so I would try to add
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" android:required="false" />
to the AndroidManifest.xml.
Also the permission
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FLASHLIGHT" />
may include the requirement of flash hardware so I would add
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.flash" android:required="false" />
as well.
Here you can find a list that shows all permissions that imply Feature Requirements
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html#permissions
Remove android:allowBackup="true"
I published my APK to Android market. I can search it via https://play.google.com/store/search?q=[package name], but I can't install it on my Nexus One device which running Android OS 2.3.6, the popup shows not compatible with your device. The manifest file is configured as below:
<supports-screens
android:largeScreens="true"
android:smallScreens="true"
android:normalScreens="true"
android:resizeable="true"
android:anyDensity="true"
/>
<uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="8" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO"></uses-permission>
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CAMERA" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
<uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera.autofocus" />
What problem in my configuration made My Nexus One device is filtered?
There's nothing wrong with your manifest; I'd wager you have Copy Protection enabled. From the documentation:
To copy protect an application, set copy protection to "On" when you
configure publishing options for your application. Google Play will
not show copy-protected applications on developer devices or
unreleased devices.
Since the Nexus One is a developer device, it will show as incompatible. I ran into this same issue on my Galaxy Nexus.
Add this to your manifest
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="15" />//=======> the target version is your wish(> 10)