[Interest] How does Google Play validates Android binaries?

[Nuno Santos]

Harri,

Yesterday, I have finally managed to solve the problem with the help of a user.

One of the biggest issues was the misleading information provided by Google Play Developer support about the unsupported platforms.

The problem was actually derived from the support-screens. My last try was:

<supports-screens android:smallScreens="false" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true”/>

And it is now working for both apps. 

No problems with Qt, Android-SDK, Android-NDK or so ever.

I’m glad this is solved as a lot of users couldn’t install from the store.

Thanks for your feedback.

Nuno

> On 30 Jul 2015, at 09:51, Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 29/07/2015 19:51, Nuno Santos wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I’m having a serious issue with Android deployment and this is something recent. I’m starting to think that this was not happening on previous versions of Qt. I’m currently using Qt 5.4.2 and when I deploy to Google Play, on some devices the app is not compatible (the pattern seems to be high resolution devices). On my app manifest min SDK is 14 and target SDK is 21. I also have a support-screens directive with the following:
>> 
>> <supports-screens android:smallScreens="false" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true"/>
>> 
>> The most awkward issue here is that a couple of months ago, the same app was available to the same device and now it isn’t. There are some possibilities in my list:
>> 
>> - Google Play bug
>> - Android build tools incompatibility 
>> - Qt behaviour change on androiddeployqt
>> 
>> However I’m completely in the dark. I’m tired of making experimental builds and uploads with no positive results. 
>> 
>> Does any one knows how does Google Play analyses APK’s in order to determine if they are OK or not? 
>> 
>> The only thing Google tells me is: "unsupported native platform: armeabi, armeabi-v7a” However, APK’s were built for armeabi-v7a and x86, with a superior version number for x86.
>> 
> You should not have armeabi as supported if you are building for armeabi-v7a.
> Where does that come from?
> 
>> The .apk works on development but isn’t allowed thru Google Play.
>> 
>> Is anyone here experiencing the same problem?
>> 
> 
> I haven't built a new android version for a few months, but when I did I was using some snapshot of 5.5 dev.   Do you use ant or Gradle for the build?
> 
> Harri
> 
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