I've successfully completed the publishing process for an APK to the Internal Test Track.
But when I try to view the App for download on the Google Play Store using the "VIEW ON GOOGLE PLAY" link in the screenshot below...
...it opens a new window with the following error:
I've also tried using the testers link "download it on Google Play." below...
...but it results in the same message stating the App can't be found.
This is the first time the App has been published and it's being done on the Internal Test Track.
The automated testing picked up a few warning and minor issues but no errors:
Has anyone experienced this issue before? I've contacted Google support for advice but I thought it would be worth trying here too and seeing if anyone had any suggestions on what to try next.
Thanks.
If this is the first time your app is being published on a track, it will take a couple of hours to be processed. This is only a one-time thing though, for future updates, the availability will be immediate on the internal test track.
Once the app is available, you'll also need to follow the opt-in link to be eligible for the download of the app.
Please delete cache and data of google play app on your device, then new updated version will be available
For Android App Bundles (AAB)
On the left menu, select Release > Devices and versions > App bundle
explorer.
Select the artifact filter near the top right of the page.
On the “Choose an artifact” table, select the right arrow on the
artifact you want to view.
Select the Downloads tab.
To share a link to install a specific APK: In the “Internal app
sharing link” section, select Copy shareable link.
As of today, the format of the shareable link:
https://play.google.com/apps/test/<package.name>/<version.number>
For Both APKs and AABs
You can use Internal app sharing instead.
Upload an APK or app bundle on the internal app sharing upload page
Then you can make your app available to anyone by sharing a download link.
Before anyone can download, they need to turn on internal app sharing on their Google Play Store app.
Open the Google Play Store app Google Play.
Tap Menu Menu > Settings.
In the “About” section, tap the Play Store version 7 times.
After the Internal app sharing setting appears, tap the switch to turn on
internal app sharing.
More information can be found here.
Answer for latest play console 2021
I was having same problem but since play console is lot different I didnt found any suitable solution but after trying a bit, this was solution that worked for me.
Play Console > Setup > Internal App Sharing > Email Lists > Make sure your email list is checked and saved.
In uploader and tester section make sure 'Anyone you shared link with can download' is selected.
Thats it.
I also created video on how this problem can be solved:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiu76l4-7s
I just went through this completely unintuitive process, so let me clear up some myths:
Internal testing does NOT require the app be publicly released
The review process for your app apparently needs to complete before the app is available, as others pointed out, but the Play Console gives no indication this is a prerequisite, and happily states in several places that the App is available to internal testers when it is not. In my case the review took about a month to complete, which is why the "We are experiencing longer than normal review times" message was appearing in the console. This was the initial creation of my app, so I don't know which items-under-review were actually required, as the whole backlog completed at the same time (also with no notice to me).
Even at this point, if I follow the 'join' link on my phone, I still have the same issues the OP had. Clearing Play Store cache and other tricks did nothing. Instead, I had to click it from a PC, follow the prompts, and choose to install to a specific device (which requires the 7-tap developer mode on the device mentioned by others)
My case, hope it help. (Internal testing)
Make sure:
Change your version code for new release.
Add tester emails.
After upload and share link, must do these steps to download:
Open the Google Play Store app Google Play.
Click the Menu icon Menu > Settings.
In the "About" section, tap the Play Store version 7 times.
Once the Internal App Sharing setting appears, tap the switch to enable internal app sharing.
Click Enable.
Hours on this.
In my case the missing step was to enable Managed Google Play, which "Manage your private app and make it available to specific organisations". You don't need to apply an organisation filter, and simply use the internal test tracks.
The setting is found in Setup > Advanced Settings > Managed Google Play
#pierre was right. But that was some time ago, and now that link is not called Opt-in URL, but Join on the web. Just ask your testers to open it before they download the application.
We just had a related issue in this completely horrible process - documenting here because it burned a week for us.
Problem: We got approved on closed and production 2x but no one could see our app in internal, closed, public test tracks or on the public store.
How it happens: As far as I can tell when you start a Closed Test Track an organization gets auto-selected on Setup > Advanced Settings > Managed By Google and/or you can (irreparably!) set one yourself on the Closed Testing page. This means that only people in your org will be able to access it.
Solution: If Internal/Closed/Production is not showing up the solution may be: In Setup > Advanced Settings > Managed By Google you UN-check your org for it to be publicly available, as in the helpful alert in the screenshot below.
Duh. Worst default ever? :)
For me, i clicked the link play console gave me on phone
https://play.google.com/apps/internaltest/***********
But it didn't work, i clicked the link with pc, got the play store link, and clicked link on phone, and it worked !
For me, the issue was that of the version X.Y.Z, Google Play Console uses Z to determine the newest version of the app. So if, for example, the previous version of your app was 1.70.170, then 2.1.171 would work, but 2.1.1 would not show up for you as it would be considered older than 1.70.170.
Once you got the application from google play store link will be available on internal testing page inside.
Click on Internal testing
Step 1: Click copy link and use any browser
Step 2: after that it will show Accept Invitation already you are opened your added mail id from the google play developer console for internal tester on this application.
Step 3:
finally click on download it on google play
thats all. enjoy your coding...
Go to settings --> then internal app testing and add your testers there. Follow the instructions in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAiu76l4-7s
I am doing an app with a partner. My partner can see the Google Maps in the app, however, I can’t see it in the device and emulator. I don’t think is a code problem because my partner can see it, maybe it is something I have to download on my device?
I already install Google Service also and nothing happened.
You don't have to have restrictions on your key otherwise only who created project can see map. Go here and edit the options. Sorry for image in Italian
please refer to this documentation first https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/android-api/signup
What you may be doing wrong is that you have not entered your debug android studio SHA-1 key in your google developer console while putting restriction on to your key and wait for at least 10 minute after doing any updation on your developer console. If this doesn't solves the problem then please share some more details about the code integration and your key restriction than only anyone here can help you getting out of this problem.
I'm currently implementing Saved Games feature into android Unity project. I'm using this plugin. Achievements, Leaderboards and signing in works perfectly fine. I wanted to enable Saved Games in my project(i have to do so in Google play developer console). But after i choose to enable it in my project and hit save i get this error. Unexpected Error. Try Again Later (1700403). I tried different browsers, clearing cache,clearing history, signing in and out, but it just don't work.I thought it might be because it is not my project (work),but i have the highest permissions they could give me. Every idea is appreciated :)
Android requires you to upload an APK with billing permissions through developer console to start testing real in app billing. This was straingtforward in the old developer console but in the new one, as soon as you upload an APK, it activates automatically and there is no way to de-activate.
I've seen a related question where they suggest using the old developer console but developer console does not let me use the old console because our app listing has localized content.
Update To be more clear, it lets me switch back to the old console but there is a message near my app saying
This app has localized images and/or videos, please edit in the new Developer Console.
instead of an edit button.
I've seen other people having the same issue without a solution.
Any workaround to be able to upload draft apk through the new developer console ?
In short, you can't. It seems the 'one click publish' is being advertised as a feature. They might eventually add some sort of draft support, but who knows.
Right now, it's available the option to deactivate a current published APK. At least, I was able to do it with the new Google Developer Console, one week ago.
The old developer console is accessible by either going to the top right or navigating to play.google.com/apps/publish?switch_back=1
I contacted Google. Looks like at this state there is nothing to do. Even if I delete localized store content, it wont let me use old console.
They said draft apk support is coming very soon.
I recently made an update to an existing (paid) app I have had published on Google Play for a while. While I was working on the new version, I thought I'd implement the Google Licensing Verification Library. I followed the instructions from Google at http://developer.android.com/guide/market/licensing/adding-licensing.html . Had things working pretty well at this point - when I changed the test response in the Google Play Developer Console I got a different result in my app. Great!
Then I published this new version.
I installed the signed APK (it's a paid app so I didn't want to download it from Google Play) on my phone (had been testing it on that very same device all along). Now things didn't work at all. I got the "Retry" result from the licensing service all the time. I mean for hours. I went back and fiddled with the source code, changed all kinds of things, nothing worked. The Licensing library always timed out (got a "Check timed out." in from the library in LogCat).
I searched everywhere for an answer, but it wasn't until I ran across this discussion ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1566770 ) and read it to it's very final post that I found the solution.
From the above mentioned post:
"I have just had this issue too & deleting the Google Play Application
data (Settings, Applications, choose Google Play & press Clear Data )
fixed it for me. Clearing Cache is not sufficient. Ihe only impact I
saw of doing this (apart from my App now working again) is that you
have to re-accept Google Play T&C etc when you next use that app and
my search history had gone."
I did it, it worked, and now everything is back to working!
I had the same issue with an app downloaded from google Play Store. In my case the problem was not the storage or cache as in the other answer. I had the Google Play Store Background-Data-Usage restricted, which prevented this API from working. After enabling background data usage, everything worked just fine.