I have an android app on the market for some time (7 month) that was labeled as "Beta" in the title.
Yesterday I published a new version and thought it's time to leave the beta state. Therefore I switched the app-title in the market backend and removed the "beta" tag.
The problem is: now, the users don't receive any update notification! If you search for the app in the market, the red update label is shown correctly. But in the "my apps" section, the update label and the notification is never shown. The user doesn't see that there's an update.
It didn't work on my two phones (both 2.2, I cleared the market cache) and it seems like, nearly all users continue to use the old version.
So, is this a known problem? Or was it just a temporary problem on my phone? Can anybody confirm this behaviour?
And, what can I do now? Switching the title back doesn't seem to help.
Thanks a lot
Marcus
Are you sure you didn't change your package name? (although the Market console should have thrown an error if you tried to upload and upgrade with a different pname)
Just change your label and version...
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So I made an app for android, debugged it and it was a really great experience overall. However the app has a problem now. I went to publish the app and it told me I couldn't publish the app under the package name com.exmaple.ect, so I went to change it, no problem there. However foolishly when I changed the application package I did it manually and forgot to change the manifest so when it published, the app would crash. So I went back and updated it and I re-saved and went to tools to "export signed application package".
I then proceeded to update but realized I made a mistake and named the package wrong, so I went to fix it. It then published fine. However upon publishing the icon got taken out of the app so I had to (for a fourth time, sorry I'm still a beginner) update.
So now I update the app with Icon.. I updated the app after "export signed application package" again and when it went to upload the app onto my test phone, there are now 4 app icons on both my Android smartphone and when I click, one of them doesn't work as before, the other one without an icon, the other with an icon that works. However when I click the one that works it then says "Complete using action" with the four different package names. How can I get it so only the one that works is the app downloaded onto users phones?
As usual, I'm very appreciative to all responses. Each prior version is still showing. Could it be that I'm not suppose to "export signed application package" each time I tried updating?
If each app has a different package name, it is considered a completely different app. The package name is what identifies your application from all of the others, and is what makes each individual application uniques.
For example: if you were to release an app with whatever package name, this package name must stay the same for the lifetime of the app. If the package name were to change, it is released as a completely different app. Thus, your users will not be informed of an update, as it technically didn't receive an update.
Hope this helps, happy coding!
I released my first android app yesterday, and got the direct link to the app working after 6 hours. But Its been > 24 hours now, and it still doesnt show up in the search on playstore.
I have been searching in the playstore both from my android device, as well as from desktop browser. The app simply isnt there.
Is this common? Is there something I can do to check the status/find out whats happening?
Thanks a lot
EDIT: the direct link is: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidinput
EDIT: The issue was indeed that the name "Droid Input" was too general. Changed it to Moused . Hopefully it makes it a tad better once the update is pushed to prod. Thanks for all your help!
Sometimes newly published apps take time until they appear in search results. The app needs to be indexed in the Play Store before it starts appearing in search results. Also, make sure the app name has enough unique keywords so that it's easier to spot while searching.
All my apps were searchable minutes after the direct link started working. Can you post the name of your app.
Check those in Developer console
published area
minimal Android os
make sure it's published in developer console
If it's all right, don't worry, just wait to published
If your app have any problem google will send email to you
First of all,
you must check if you have no other updates,
second check if the website is not under going several changes if so than you might have to wait a couple of days
check your device for any out of the normal activity
if this is not resolved make sure to contact the company and explain them your issue,
regularly it shouldn't be happening to only you so there might be others with the same issue as you, it is unlikely that it could be your device but there is always that possibility that it might.
I have recently updated my Android app from Google Developer Console. I have updated my app from 1.1 version to 1.2 version. But how i would know that an update notification has gone to all active install user of my app.
Whether i need to write some code or is there any option available in Google Developer Console...
Please help me out , i need this essentially.
At the moment, the only way to tell is by day to day statistics from the google console to know how many have updated to your new version.
Go to statistics windows, then underneath the first graph there should be an option to display Active Installs by App Version.
Even if all your users update the app, there may be backup copies. Normally, such copies are never used, but on really rare occasions something happens and... it will be really very frustrating if the backup copies get broken in the course of time.
I have an app (All operators' APN | Tweakker) and it's been on the market for a while now. I discovered this week that I can't find it from my device's market anymore although I used to be able to. Nothing in the app has changed. If I go to the web market I get a message that confirms the app is compatible with my Desire. I tried finding the app with other phones as well, even from different countries, and it just doesn't appear.
Here's what I tried so far:
unpublish, publish
change promotion preferences
release a small bugfix update
wait for the Market to return to normal
Someone suggested the single quote might be a problem, but that can't be the case since this worked up to this week. The app is using copy protection.
The app seems to appear in the market now, although I haven't done anything more. I did contact Google, but I don't have an answer from them yet.
On Tuesday, I released my first app to the Android Market. Since then I found a few bugs which I have fixed and uploaded a new version.
In the Developer Console, it still shows the version number as the original (v0.8.0) but the last version uploaded is different (v0.9.0).
If I check the market on my phone, then the update is not even showing.
How long before they show?
Can I check if there are any errors with my upload process? Does a different filename for the apk matter?
Cheers
Summary: It seems to take an hour.
From the developer publishing tool
"Your application has been published. It can take several hours
until it is available throughout Google Play."
After publishing through the Developer Console, if I search through the web interface of the Android Market, I still get the old version for a while. It seems to take maybe an hour for the app to make it through the Developer Console and display the updated version in the marketplace.
It's definitely not instantaneous for me. Perhaps it used to be.
It's instantaneous. Did you click the "Publish" button? It's possible to upload an .apk without actually publishing it (if you click "Save" rather than "Publish").
The update occurs immediately. The question is the cache of your market application :)
A reboot or a forced kill of the market app with a task manager should bring the update to your device...
The market checks your versionCode (stored in the manifest) and not the versionName to determine if there is an update.
May it depend on the populatiry of the app? It can for sure take also a couple of hours to appear and still there might be no notification on a device about the update.