I have an application in google play store as a beta version. I am able to get the beta version link and have provided it for beta testing to the testers.
Now what I need is delete the beta version of the application and upload the application with the same name from different play store account. So what steps do I need to follow to delete the beta version of the application from my current account and upload the application from different account as a production version however the application should have same name as the beta version name?
Unfortunately you can't delete an app once you have publish it, the only thing you can do is to unpublish it.
As you can see in the warning message displayed before unpublish an app, the app remains available for existing users:
DO YOU REALLY WANT TO UNPUBLISH THIS APPLICATION?
When you unpublish an application existing users can still use your
app and receive app updates. Your app won't be available for new users
to find and download on Google Play.
For this reason the package name of your app remains in use. This is a huge problem because the package name must be unique on Play Store, so you can't publish the same app in another account.
The only viable solution is to unpublish the current app, change the package name of your app and upload in the new account.
You can't delete the app but you can transfer the app to your other account and then upload the production version there.
Here's a link to how to do the transfer request within the Play Store Dev Console.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/checklist/3294213?hl=en&ref_topic=3450986
Please try this
Pricing and distribution -> Unpublish
You just have to change the package name inside your app, then you can upload it from the other account.
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I've been working on my first app but haven't yet submitted it for review on the Play Console, only internal testing. Long story short, I trashed my project folder that had been configured with signing keys and am now trying to re-upload my app (recovered via Git) to the Play Console. I resigned it with new keys and as expected this prevents me from uploading my current app as a newer version of the original (now trashed) app. If I try to submit my app as a new app I receive an error:
You need to use a different package name because "com.example.app" is already used by one of your other applications.
I have a strong preference to keep this package name. Is there any way to delete the existing draft app? The only workaround I have found so far would be to create a new Google account and start fresh. Any help is appreciated.
I googled "delete app google play console".
This led me to this SO post that had this answer which points to this help article that says:
Delete an app or game
You can permanently remove draft apps or games from Play Console. You can also delete:
Published apps or games that haven't been installed on any devices
Published apps or games that no users are entitled to re-install
In these cases, contact our support team to request that your app's or game's data be permanently deleted.
Where "contact our support team" lead to this page.
My apps are removed by Google Play, I hope to delete or hidden them from my app listings, how can I do? Thanks!
BTW, I can't unpublish the removed app from google play.
And more, I have read the article How to remove application from app listings on Android Developer Console
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No, you can unpublish but once your application has been live on the market you cannot delete it. (Each package name is unique and Google remembers all package names anyway so you could use this a reminder)
The "Delete" button only works for unpublished version of your app. Once you published your app or a particular version of it, you cannot delete it from the Market. However, you can still "unpublish" it. The "Delete" button is only handy when you uploaded a new version, then you realized you goofed and want to remove that new version before publishing it.
and after the update on may 2018 :
Delete an application or a game
You can permanently delete your draft apps or games from the Play
console. You can also delete:
published applications or games that have not been installed on any
device.
published applications or games that no user has the right to
reinstall.
In this case, contact our support team to request the final deletion
of your app or game data.
The following is the situation:
I have an app, that I have published to the Google Play store (version code: 100, version name 1.100).
I want to add feature allow people to update the app using an apk(release) from a website instead of from the Play Store.
BUT during testing I found the following problem:
Download current app from store(v - 100)
after that try to install(update) using the APK I compile
result - "App not installed."
But if I
install a hand created old APK (exactly the same as was uploaded to the Store)
try to install a handcreated APK update that was uploaded to the store
everything works fine
CAN you please describe there're some limits additional checkers for security or something wrong on my side ?
You are probably signed into Google Play App Signing.
Every Android app is signed with a key. When the phone tries to install an update, the update must be signed with the same key as the original app. This is for the security of the user. This stops a fake version of WhatsApp or Facebook (or your app) being created and users tricked into installing it. A bad developer can create an app with the same package name, but doesn't have access to the key, so this protects the users.
When you deliver through Google Play App Signing, Google removes the signature with your key (the "upload key") and signs it with a new Google Play key. This is a good thing. It protects you if you lose your upload key, without this there would be nothing Google could do to help you.
But this is why the upgrade doesn't happen. The app you hand create is signed with your upload key, so it won't update the app installed from Google Play.
This is a good thing. You don't want users who installed from one source (eg Google Play) to update from another source, like a download from a website. It would put them at serious risk of harmful fake apps.
However, if you really want to do this, you need to not use Google Play App Signing.
An alternative solution:
You can upload your signed apk on google play console then download the new signed apk and put it on your website or anywhere else.
I have configured the open beta tests in the Google Play Store using a link like https://play.google.com/apps/testing/<my app package name> to invite my users to join the beta.
The users can download the app but when a new update is available the users didn't receive the update. Why ?
The only way for the users to download the update is going in the Play Store page of my app and click on the update button.
It seem beta apps doesn't have the same update system than published app.
I'm developing an app that soon will be released on Google Play Store.
Meanwhile, some of our users will manually install the app on their device using ADB and a provided APK.
When the app will be on the store it will be an update (with different VersionCode) but it will still use the same package name and the same certificate used for the previous APK.
Will the already manually installed app receive this update? (I personally think not, because if I recall well the store has an history of installed app on a device, right?)
Otherwise, should we ask to our user to manually (re)install the app from the store? And in that case, will the Preferences be preserved?
When you publish app on Play Store you can choose to publish it in Beta or Alpha Test, so that only some users can view and install it from the store, so that when your app is ready to become visible to all of the users you can move it in Production.
To achieve this, you can create a Google Group, invite some users for Beta Test to this group, and then add in developer console the email of the group you created.