When publishing the description of my app in Google Play, I'm having a hard time controlling whether blank lines appear between my paragraphs of text. The text I submit always contains blank lines between paragraphs, but some of them get dropped in the published version. I find that if I use a tag, I get two blank lines, which is not what I want, either.
Anybody figured this out?
I managed to stumble upon a solution through trial and error. What works for me is to separate paragraphs with a newline, a space, and another newline. In other words, a blank line between paragraphs that includes a space on that blank line.
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I have an Android app and I'm doing some A/B test experiments to see how the store listing text performs.
In one of my test I changed the logo image. The problem is that I have the same logo image inside my app, as a resource file. It is shown on the splash screen during loading.
Both A and B test are serving the same APK of course so it may be confusing for users on B to see a given logo on the store listing and then a different one on the actual app.
How can I solve this? I suspect the only option available is to remove the logo image from the APK.
This is an interesting problem without a definitely correct answer. There are at least two points of view.
The first point of view says "it doesn't matter". A/B store listing experiments are about seeing which store listing works best to convert a user from "someone who is looking at your listing" to "someone who installs your app". By the time you have got to the splash screen the experiment has done it's job. Yes it is a slightly strange experience for some users, but that's ok. Run the experiment for long enough to get a result about which works best, then change both the store listing and the app to use that icon.
The second point of view says the inconsistency matters. Having an inconsistent icon will make the user confused, lead to higher tech support costs, and more uninstalls. It would be nice to make the icon match, but the trouble is, for any given user you don't know which experiment branch they were in, and Google don't give you any way to find this out. So while it would be nice to have it match you can't. This leaves you with two options:
take the logo out of the splash screen
switch to a third logo on the splash screen that is different to both experiment conditions
Personally I think I take the first point of view. But if you take the second, there are at least two things you can do.
I am building a small site and ran into a small problem. I am using MixItUp to filter and sort blocks. I am also using a search field to search through the titles of each block and display relevant ones. Everything works fine on all devices and browsers except for Android.
On Android when I tap into the search field my keyboard slides up and then slides away again without giving me a chance to type anything. I tried googling the problem and only relevant thing I could find was this post but I am not sure how to proceed because I have no clue what event listeners would be disrupting the android one.
I am not a very experienced developer (self-taught and still learning lots) so I am not sure how I would go about correcting. My plan right now is to just remove pieces of code until keyboard starts working and then go from there once I identify what is causing it.
The Website is teste3.khalidsleiman.com
I figured out it was a jQuery snippet that I was using to relocate the input field to a different spot on my page depending on window size. Now I only have it set to run that snippet on document load instead of window load and resize. Keyboard is showing up now.
I have an app that I would like to submit to Google Play Store, just to be able to say I have an app that others would find useful. I thought it would be a freebie until I found a similar app-for-pay that mine has more features than. Mine also looks better. Whatever, my questions are about the keypad.
Here are screen shots of input screens, one with output filtering. Output pops up after the Show button is pressed. (The Help button clarifies the overly-terse "output filtering" portion.)
The only keys I need are the ten digits 0-9 and the backspace and Next keys.
Is there an input type that I haven't stumbled onto yet that would have just those 12 keys?
Or is there a way to hide the math symbol, ABC, and "Swype" keys? (Their presence isn't overly distracting, but it would be better without them.)
(I know I could try to design my own custom keypad, but it would be really hard to set up a dozen listeners for a dozen new buttons and have to handle my own text field editing. Meanwhile, the existing look and feel is standard and the app is FINISHED if I don't go this route! It wouldn't be wise to go this route would it? A lot more work not worth the effort?)
there is an android:inputType="number", Also it wont allow any other special characters too...
Okay so this question has already been asked here but was not fully answered:
Android app not searchable by Title - only by package name
This guy had the exact same problem as me. My app has been up for about 3 days and I can't see it even if search by the exact name and the developer name too. However, when I don't put a space in the title, it shows up. Now I know that common words in title will result in a less likely chance of app being shown in search results, but the problem is the app doesn't show up AT ALL, even if I scroll all the way down. My problem isn't with where my app is in the list, but that it isn't shown even if I scroll to the bottom of the 250 results. Could my manifest be causing this?
Google Play store doesn't use just the title to arrive at the results. There's an article here that explains somewhat what they use when searching: http://www.insidemobileapps.com/2013/05/17/google-discloses-how-search-for-google-play-works-for-the-first-time-12-percent-of-dau-search-for-apps-daily/.
Unfortunately, if you app uses common words (like meal and timer) and has just been published so there are no reviews and +1's, it's bad news for you - it'll get buried in the results.
My android app has a two word app name, and the 2nd word doesn't fit on the first line below the app icon. The OS doesn't automatically carry the 2nd word over to the 2nd line so it just gets cut off. I was able to use a "\n" as part of the app name string instead of a space, and that forced the 2nd word to display on the 2nd line. However, when I try to upload my app on the market I get an error (about the icon being improperly formatted, which really means that I have a newline in my app name, google needs to get their error messages straight but that's a different topic).
So, I've seen other apps on the market that don't have a problem showing the 2nd word in the app name on a second line. How do I do the same and get past the market upload?
Thanks.
From what I understand, this is a feature, not a bug. Only custom roms seem to allow more than one line for the names.
Even my application had two lines application name. Earlier the name was shown as only one line application name. I just uninstalled the application from device and re-installed it and my problem is solved.
May this helps someone.
\r\n worked for me, add it where you want to line break
I'd look at some projects that do not have the problem, see how they define things in their manifest and string resources, and try to match them. Barcode Scanner (ZXing) is one such app. This sample app from one of my books also successfully has its two-word name split over two lines.