So it's been a day, almost, 22 hours after I published an app to the play store and I still can't find it when searching it by name. Should I be worried? Min API and Target API are good, and the majority of devices are supported.
Do have a look at this:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/troubleshooter/3055329?hl=en#ts=3056739
This is the play store's explanation to your problem
Usually it wont take that long. For me it takes couple of hours. Did you search the app by its full name. Usually there are alot of apps in the market and it would be difficult to find the one you just published.
I would also check in the excluded devices section of the playstore. If you are searching this in a device which is in excluded devices, chances are that it wont be shown.
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Our app just published just now on google playstore but if we type the full name it doesn't even show. We have to type the developers name instead in able to show it from the list down below when you scroll down. The app was published via Beta test at the moment, I'm not sure if its the reason or we need to make it publsh to production in able to see. Or do I missed something?
This also happened to my App before. There are guidelines provided by Google Support though.
In most cases maybe you are searching in a mobile device that is not supported by your app. Check targetSdkVersion in your AndroidManifest. In my case it took atleast a day for it to be totally visible in the Google Play Store.
The name of my App is Gestión Escáner. I search "Gestión Escáner" (without quotes) and I see a lot of apps less mine. I have another app in published and if I go into it in the store I can access to the creator (Me) and then see my 2 apps (Gestión Horario and Gestión Escáner) witch I couldn't find in the searcher.
Is ridiculous that I search my app by it name and I found nothing. I published the app 2 days ago and in the web page Google says that the publishing take as maximum 24 hours.
My app is published, it can be checked in the Google Play Console, and in the Google Play Store (if you know how to exactly search it).
There is a Google failure or something? I can't reach understand why I cannot find my App by its name.
I want to specify that there no exists another application with the same name as mine.
Thanks a lot for the help.
The time of 4 to 24 hours is the time to get app published.
After the app has been published, it needs to be indexed by google to be visible in the search. Also, the search results also depend upon the ASO(App Store Optimization). Sometimes, you can't see your app even with the full name without that. Make sure your Title/Description convey the idea.
You can read the following links App visibility & discovery issues and Get discovered on Google Play search
I hope this question isn't too broad. I realize the answer to my question is "Anything, it depends on the particulars." I'm just looking for ideas here. I have a published Android app that has been in the store for years. People download it every day. Suddenly, on July 2, 2018, I start getting messages from tons of users, both new and old, saying they can't get past the startup screen, where the app does a series of checks (read-write to storage, check license, etc). I haven't changed anything in the app.
Oh, and of course it doesn't repro for me.
I asked my users for information about the device they're using, their build of Android, their physical location, and I don't see any patterns. It's all kind of devices including official Google devices, and the OS ranges from 6.0 to 8.1.0. Users are from all over the world.
Based on what users are telling me they see on the screen, it seems that the Google Play license check might be the place where things are going wrong. (However, no exceptions or error messages are shown.) Also pointing in this direction is the fact that the free apps (which have otherwise identical logic) seem to work okay.
Did Google deprecate something a licensing library starting on July 1 or something like that?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Big thanks to #MorrisonChang in the comments to my question pointing me in the right direction. I have confirmed that this was indeed a problem with the Google Play Store app, and customers who upgraded to 10.7.19 report that my apps are working properly again.
I just uploaded the 12th update (APK) for my app 5 days ago and it is still not available in Google Play. Usually it only takes a few hours and it is available. Is there any solution/reason why this might happen? Anyone experienced this before? If yes, what was the problem/solution?
I have contacted Google and are awaiting reply..
EDIT:
Finally it is available. It took almost 6 days according to my APK list. No response from Google yet.
After six days it got published. Still awaiting response from Google to know why it was delayed so long.
Edit:
Google said something like: "There might be many reasons for why an app is not published within 24 hours and it might take a while sometimes."
There's no manual approval process in Google Play. The only think that
your app cannot be found is that it is not compatible with device
you are trying to look for it on,
you in fact did not push it for release (check Google Play console)
Google servers may need some time to propagate (but usually it takes up to 24 hrs from my experience).
You basically cannot do much about case "3".
Just want to know if publishing an application on Google play is allowed using the default Android icons ? My application got published successfully without and error, but it's been about four hours now and I still can't find it on Google play. So I am wondering whether using the default developer icon was a mistake. The documentation on icons don't mention anything about this matter either.
Your input on this matter is highly appreciated.
Yes, that is ok, some times it takes time to appear on google play, as it is being populated on all the server (I guess).
So keep patience, it will appear sooner, some times it may take 1 hour - 24 hours. :)
So while you are finger crossed, have a look at this post