I've found today that my recently published app on the Android Market,
is not showing up on this device Market: Samsung Apollo.
I've already followed this tutorial to make my app accesible to almost all devices configurations
and it still don't show on that device's Market.
What am I doing wrong?
Did you use the copy protection functionality when uploading the apk?
That can be the issue.
What version of Android did you build against? Does that phone run a compatible version?
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An internal test version has been launched as an update of existing playstore application. And tried the link given after application approval.
It is available for download on all devices, except Android 9 devices. I've tried with every internal test emails, but it doesn't work. Also erased playstore caches and turned on developer options, but still have problem.
We have published another app and it is downloadable in all devices. Anybody please help me find a solution and do we have any restrictions on the release of the internal build of an existing playstore application? The issue is only in Android 9 devices.
I made an Android app using Android studio, deployed and ran it directly by using my mobile running Oreo.
It installed successfully. But later I tired to share the APK from my mobile to other mobiles. But none of them are able to Install it.
However, if I build the APK and share the app-debug.apk to other mobiles. It Installs successfully.
I can't build APK and share app-debug.apk it everyone.
I usually deploy it in my mobile, share APK(which used to work before)
Can anyone please help
Please excuse typos, I have typed from mobile.
There might be a signing issue. Is your app signed? The default signing is the debug signing. When you just build and deploy or run it on a connected device, it is signed by default as a debug sign.
If it is not uniquely signed, then running or installing on other devices might not be possible. Look at the app signing instruction and guide by Google, here, if you wish to distribute your app on other devices.
Another problem might be in the security authorization of other devices. Your device on which you are building has the developer options turned on. To run and install unsigned apps you'll need to activate the developer options in the device you want to run it on. Look at this link about Developer Options and how to turn it on.
by default the Android Studio packages just the needed files and installs the app in your mobile. If you share to other mobiles, the app will not install in few devices due to a few reasons like OS version, files mismatch, SHA keys mismatch, etc.
However, if you build the APK and share, the APK is equipped to be installed in any device starting from the minimum SDK version to the target SDK version.
Yesterday I created an Android app using Delphi XE6, built it with Release configuration and targeted App Store, and ran deployment without installing to any device.
I then uploaded the resulted APK to Google Play Store with success, but when the app downloaded and installed on my device (ZTE N986D), it crashed.
THE SAME APK downloaded to the device via http server running on my laptop was fine and working without any error/crash.
I did triple checks everything (debug/release mode, provisioning, deployment files, etc.) with no luck. I also did try on 3 differend Android devices with exactly same result.
For now I believe that this is not a bug on Delphi XE6.
Is an APK getting changed when uploaded to Google Play Store?
Here is link to the app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.cenadep.pnup.qrkasir
Any help and thought would be appreciated.
1) You need to generate a keystore for sign your APK.
Please follow this link to create a keystore: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE6/en/Creating_a_Keystore_File
2) After, follow this: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/XE6/en/Deploying_Your_Signed_Android_Application
I want to ask a little issue which I found out why testing my application. When I update my application from Android Market after I upload new apk, everything is working fine without any errors. But when I try to install older apk manually, not from market and after that install newer version of it again not from market, there are some errors which I don't get if I update my app from market.
Any ideas if it's normal, because as I know Android market app takes care of installing the updates and etc.
it's normal if in your phone have a debug version ,
you must unistall old version on your phone, so after you can install the apk ( market version) manually .
for market update , you can update it only if your app is gratis.
Can you run the Android market app from a virtual device or in the emulator?
The market is only allowed to run on devices that google licenced it to.
You could use a application backup tool to get the apk from your phone and then try to install this apk on an emulator. This violates the copyright from google that means copying the market apk is likely to be illegal, and it does not work because the market uses a shared library that is not present on the emulator.
Yes, you can run it.
This link helped me:
http://blog.varunkumar.me/2010/11/how-to-install-android-market-in-google.html
EDIT: this could possibly be violating user licences.
Extra input required about licences
Not with AVD. But you can install android on a pc (http://www.android-x86.org/download) using vmware, virtualbox, .... Then can log in with your Google account and install apps from Play Store.
You can use Genymotion for this purpose as I explained here. You'll be able to use it as a normal device, installing apps from the store under your Google account.
If you want to know which apps are avaible on Android Market you can use AndroidPIT.