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.
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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.
I had updated my apk file and build a new version (upgrading the versionCode and versionName).
The files was successfully uploaded on the apk 2 days back, but still it is not updated :(
Can some one pls help me.
Its still showing "Processing update" as status on the console.
I tried un-publishing the app and re-publishing the same, it made thing even worse.
Now M unable to search my application.
Tried contacting the google guys, but still no progress.
Please help
Found a similar qstn here
My android app is not being updated on the Google Play Store
For a new app you need to have patience. It may take anything from 2 days to a week. There will be reviews and automated policy checks etc happening after which it will be available on store.
By republishing you just restarted the whole process.
Usual process may take maximum one week. Here only you can do is wait till they respond.
The chances are there the app may be rejected for the update, due to some technical reason. Keep on checking the status change. Also create a query to Google.
I have recently developed an Android app that i publish ad i do not see any current installs on my Developer console list.
I already installed on 2 devices. The application is free and i have also a paid version.I already have 3 reviews but no installs are showing...?!
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=iappz.universalconverterfree
What settings do i still need to do? Is it mandatory to add/set up Google Analytics to track this?
I was under the impression that this is already build-in and a basic install statistics will be already available...
Thank you
How long ago did you release the app? Most of the statistics are usually a few days behind (latest stats I see on my apps are for the 23rd) so you may just need to wait a few days.
The statistics related to the number of installs on the Google Play Console take some time to update. It not like that you install an application and suddenly it will update the console. It will take some time.
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.
Say I have an application that users have installed from the Play Store, if one of my users reports a bug and I want to send them a patched version of the app to test, they can install it to their phone just fine. But if I then update the app on the Play Store, will the user get the update? My testing seems to indicate this is the case, but is there any gotchas?
The way my build process works is that each time I build, it gets a higher version code, so the patched version will have a higher version code that the one currently in the Play Store and then the version I upload to the Play Store after sending my user the patch will have a higher version code again.
I'm taking a decently wild guess here, but it should work, provided the following are met:
The version code of the apk on Google Play is higher than that of the hotfix
The user originally installed the app from Google Play to begin with, and only updated it via side loading.
The hotfix and the Google Play update are both signed with the same key.
I'm decently sure this will work, as I recall a long discussion about this on one of the android google groups that ended with success. I unfortunately cannot find it right now.
If you do try it out, please post back with the results.
I don't see any issue with this workflow. As long as you increment the version number at each build.