Update On 18-Dec-2017 You can update Google Play Services via the Play Store app in your emulator just as you would on a physical Android device from API 24. check Emulator new features added with stable update from Android Studio v 3.0 Google Play Support – From Google : We know that many app developers … Read more
From Dianne Hackborn: Things That Cannot Change: The most obvious and visible of these is the “manifest package name,” the unique name you give to your application in its AndroidManifest.xml. The name uses a Java-language-style naming convention, with Internet domain ownership helping to avoid name collisions. For example, since Google owns the domain “google.com”, the … Read more
Before proceeding watch this Android Developers video to understand the implications of your App Signing enrollment choice: https://youtu.be/odv_1fxt9BI This guide is oriented to developers who already have an application in the Play Store. If you are starting with a new app the process it’s much easier and you can follow the guidelines of paragraph “New … Read more
Reproduce next steps and this warning will disapear Go to [YOUR_PROJECT]\build\app\intermediates\merged_native_libs\release\out\lib note that 3 folders exist inside arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86_64 Select this 3 folder and create a .zip file. Name doesn’t matter. [PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVEN’T COMPRESSED THE ./lib FOLDER] Upload this new *.zip file as Symbol File. .
If this is the first time your app is being published on a track, it will take a couple of hours to be processed. This is only a one-time thing though, for future updates, the availability will be immediate on the internal test track. Once the app is available, you’ll also need to follow the … Read more
Download Google apps (GoogleLoginService.apk , GoogleServicesFramework.apk , Phonesky.apk) from here. Start your emulator: emulator -avd VM_NAME_HERE -partition-size 500 -no-audio -no-boot-anim Then use the following commands: # Remount in rw mode. # NOTE: more recent system.img files are ext4, not yaffs2 adb shell mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system # Allow writing to app directory … Read more
The Google Play Store is now officially preinstalled the Android Emulator. Make sure you are running the latest version of Android Studio 2.4. In the Android Studio AVD Manager choose a virtual device configuration that has the Google Play store icon next to it, and then select one of the system images that have the … Read more
Disable advertising id collection According to the Firebase docs you can disable advertising id collection by setting: <meta-data android:name=”google_analytics_adid_collection_enabled” android:value=”false” /> in your AndroidManifest.xml under the <Application> tag. EDIT: It seems like people are having mixed success with this approach. Try adding configurations { all*.exclude group: ‘com.google.firebase’, module: ‘firebase-core’ all*.exclude group: ‘com.google.firebase’, module: ‘firebase-iid’ } … Read more
Go in the build.gradle and set the version code and name inside the defaultConfig element defaultConfig { minSdkVersion 9 targetSdkVersion 19 versionCode 1 versionName “1.0” }
You need to publish the app before it becomes available for testing. if you publish the app and the apk is only in “alpha testing” section then it is NOT available to general public, only for activated testers in the alpha section. EDIT: One additional note: “normal” users will not find your app on Google … Read more