I had some doubt regarding android app release,
please respond me as soon as possible.
1. How long it will take for app review in google play ?
2. How soon my app will appear in play store after review ?
3. Can i update my app while app is being reviewed ?
4. How can let the user know about app supporting android OS ?
Google Play doesn't review your app prior to release really like Apple does, so it's very rapid, like 2 to 3 hours after you submit the app.
See above: your app will appear in Google Play Store 2 to 3 hours after you submit it to Google Play.
If you're really that quick, sure!
Wut? If you mean the Android Level supported y your app, that information goes in the manifest.xml and Google Play Store will check for compatibility with the device before allowing the user to download.
Releasing through Google Play Store is extremely easy! Good luck!
How long it will take for app review in google play?
Usually just a few hours, there is no fixed amount of time, in my experience about 6 hours was the maximum
How soon my app will appear in play store after review?
There will be no separate update to inform you that the review is done, its all seamless you publish the app, google will review and put it on playstore.
Can i update my app while app is being reviewed?
Yes, google will just stop the review for your previous apk(? not sure about hopefully someone will correct me on this), but most certainly they will start the process flow of their review process to the latest apk you uploaded
How can let the user know about app supporting android OS?
If your app isn't supporting some android OSes, then your app wont be available in the play store for that OS, but they will still see your app in the web, but when they try to install the app on their device through web, incompatible device error will be shown
EDIT
Will review process held for each app update?
yes every apk upload will go through the review process flow
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The app is available. It just took some time to appear. The reason why I saw it as beta is because my Google account was used for alpha tests.
If you have the same problem, just delete your account from the testers and wait some hours.
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My team and I are working on a mobile game. We tested it in alpha mode and decided to launch it today. From the alpha version, we asked Google to release the app in production mode. The console tells us the app is totally sent but we can't find it on our mobile stores and when I want to see the app on the web store, it shows me the app is in Beta release.
Can someone tell me why we get this ? We didn't ask to pass in beta mode.
Do we just need to wait a bit ?
I see your app on the Play Store. I searched for it and it shows up as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.barracudapps.tradeontube. So it is published and others can find it. But do you know that your app targets Android 5.0 and up?
I have quite a simple question, but I cannot find the answer.
I have made an Android app, and I want to check if Google will accept on the Play Store, but I'm not ready to release it. If google will make issues I want to know now before going further. Is there any way I can send it for approval, and then publish it at a later date?
I know I can do Alpha and Beta testing, but I don't know if that means Google will approve the app for the store.
Thanks!
Edit: The feature seems to have been renamed Managed publishing.
There is a feature called Timed publishing which may be of help.
How does timed publishing work?
When you select timed publishing, your
update needs to be processed before it can go live. Processing takes
up to a few hours.
When your update is processed, you'll see a Go live button. When you
select Go live, you'll make the update available on Google Play within
a few minutes.
As there is no release "sign off" on google play, releasing an app to alpha or beta will trigger the whole process. You will get the malware scan as well as the pre-launch-report to tell you about stuff that didn't work.
There is nothing more that i know of.
You can upload your artifact (APK) in your artifact library, after the upload finishes the Google Play Console will tell you if your APK is valid for rollout. However once an artifact is uploaded it cannot be removed (at least I don't know how). The important thing is to NOT roll out your APK to avoid it to be listed as an app in the Play Store.
PlayStore doesn't have an "approval" phase like Apple's AppStore does, when you first launch your app it takes about six hours to be processed and appear to all PlayStore users.
I was running an app in the Google Play in Beta and then just recently "released to production" using a higher version APK.
However when I go to Google Play listing my app still says AppName (Beta)? I thought it just needed some time to propagate but I made the change 2 days ago and its still showing like that.
Anyone know how to correct this?
It actually looks like its some kind of caching issue or user specific issue.
I decided to open Google Play store from a different browser (where I was not logged in) and the app was no longer showing as Beta.
Only when viewing Play store from my logged in account and from my phone is it showing (BETA).
So for any non-beta testers viewing it for the first time on their phone or via browser I assume its going to show up correctly, which is good enough for me.
It seems that this is from the user's account side. If one specific account subscribed to a beta program it will show as (BETA) on the Google Play Store.
So to remove the beta the user just has to do the following:
Open the Google Play Store on the device.
Find the app he wants to leave.
Tap the app to open the detail page for the app.
Scroll down to find the section on beta testing.
Tap Leave.
Note: I Didn't find out a way to remove this on the Play Console but google i think they should have an option to do it.
I face the same issues . I have published my app two days before but it still showing that App Name(Beta). This happens due to only if you are the beta tester of that app .When you see it from another browser or other google play store ,It won't show beta.But keep in mind that you aren't a member of tester for this app.
To resolve this problem do these things:-
Please remove your account as beta tester from that app.
Or, Log out from device.Again login google account in your device .
3) Clear cache of Google Play Store.
Perhaps ,this will help you. Thanks..
It is due to Play Store caching , clear data of the Play Store , you will no longer see it as beta, plus make sure you are trying to see app on play store from a non-beta account.
It's simple l, just delete the tester list from testers in internal testing console, then clear cache from playstore, your good to go.
I had this problem and it turned out to simply be that I was logged in to google with an account that had signed up as a beta tester. I logged out of google and then the page displayed correctly. So it seems to me the (beta) is related to your account and not the software release which is sub-optimal coding on the part of google.
It showing AppName(Beta) just because of you are a Beta tester for that app.
There are two options:
Logout from browser and then check(different user that should not be a tester)
copy URL and open in in different browser
In my case I had to clear storage of play store application on my device.
Somehow I could not update, my test track was paused, there was no way to opt out so out of desperate I just cleared storage of play store app and done, everything back in normal. PS: Yeah I also deleted app and reinstalled before that maybe this was not necessary, don't know.
Although #Ruben Miquelino's answer is correct, it is not practical to ask every user (users already on beta) to go to a link and remove beta.
I have found a better solution for this problem, If we deactivate the beta track and change target countries(only for beta) then those users will automatically be moved to Production (after Google's review process & Play store cache expiry)
I released an app in the Google Play Store. After a few months I unpublished that app. The problem now is that the same app is available in some other sites / Play Store. When I search the app name in Google, I can see the app and I can download it. The app is still unpublished in the app store.
How to solve this problem? Unpublished app cannot see any where.
ask the site owner to take down your application.The will.But it will appear later.So basically there is no solution for your problem but ask site owner to take down the apk.
This site are doing fake advertistment for you!
They are saying, that your app has more then 50.000 downloads and so on.
It´s just at the beginning, later if you register your app on this site, you have to pay for the fake download values.
PS:
https://mobiles10.info/app/riftboy-dexter/de.hhn.laborgames.coffegame.riftboydexter/
This is a game, which i create with some students during my studies...
I'm sure, we have only 5 downloads, but this site says:
Average rating for Riftboy Dexter Game is 4.1/5 from total 137 user votes.
..
So don´t care about it.
I've developed an application and release it on google market with version 3.0. Later i've done some modification in it and upload new version(3.1) on market. To do this i've first deactivate old version and then upload this new version. Now, when i try to update app in my device (which is having 3.0 version app), i open app page in play store and shocked, because play store page display "OPEN" button inplace of "UPDATE".
Please suggest me the reason for this.
Thanks in advance.
How much time has it been when you uploaded the version 3.1 app?
Because it takes some time for google servers to upload the new version to the play store. Pay attention to the instructions, they are not as same as terms and conditions.
Update your apps documentation:
App updates take some time to be delivered to existing users. If you’ve submitted an update that hasn’t showed up on Google Play, please wait at least 24 hours before contacting our support team.
That also works for updates of course.
Nothing is instant at such a large scale you know...