I don’t believe that this is a completely automated process. In other words, I think there is someone in Google looking at screen shots from your app making a qualitative judgement (probably an intern). This is my reasoning for arriving at that conclusion: I have three versions of my app (Irish, UK and USA). They … Read more
You have your debug copy still installed on your device most likely. Now you have downloaded a different copy of the same app and it’s causing this error. Uninstall the app completely from your device. Then download it from the market again and it should work.
I was able to sign my APK using Upload key provided by Google Play. Here are the steps I followed for a new app: Create a keystore and add a signing key using Android Studio Sign the app using the key created in (1) Upload the APK to Google Play Download “Upload certificate” from Google … Read more
I contacted the Google support and they replied within 24 hours. The issue is the android:versionCode in the AndroidManifest.xml is lower than my previous release. After I fixed the issue I was able to release my app without any issue. How I fixed the issue I changed the android-versionCode to a higher value in <manifest … Read more
I think you’re looking for showInstallPrompt.
Found a suitable API via G+: this is the API: https://androidquery.appspot.com example call: https://androidquery.appspot.com/api/market?app=org.ligi.fast and this wrapper/code: https://github.com/androidquery/androidquery
I know this is old question, but future references. In Android Studio with Gradle: buildTypes { release { debuggable true minifyEnabled true proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile(‘proguard-android.txt’), ‘proguard-rules.txt’ } } The line debuggable true was the trick for me. Before Gradle 1.0 it was runProguard instead of minifyEnabled. Look at here.
This is almost certainly users sharing the app, either via P2P sharing programs, or uploading the APK to the web then other users downloading and installing from the web. People used to dealing with non Android App Bundle apps just transfer and share the main APK. But your App bundle app has lots of “split … Read more
I implemented this a while back, to some extent. It is impossible to know whether or not a user has rated an app, to prevent ratings from becoming a currency (some developers might add an option like “Rate this app and get so and so in the app for free”). The class I wrote provides … Read more
You do not need to do anything specific for this. Since you mentioned that you are using Google Play, the update notification is taken care of by Google Play. You just need to update the APK with a higher versionCode and Google Play should do the rest.