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Cannot find my app in the Google Play on the tablet


I developed and published an app. build.gradle has

minSdkVersion 11
targetSdkVersion 22
compileSdkVersion 22

and AndroidManifest.xml has

<supports-screens
        android:normalScreens="true"
        android:largeScreens="true"
        android:xlargeScreens="true"
        android:anyDensity="true"
        />

App uses features enter image description here

Now, I have a tablet Asus Nexus 7 with Android 5.1. I can launch the app normally on it when debugging. In the developer console it says that Nexus 7 is supported. enter image description here

However, I cannot find the app in the Google Play from the tablet. It's invisible for my tablet somehow.


Solution

  • Most probably the problem is your following line:

    <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.camera" />
    

    the 2012 model only has a front camera and not a rear camera. This tells the play store that a camera is mandatory for the app to run. So it won't show on devices with ONLY front camera. See Android Camera: require frontal OR rear camera

    By default android:required:"true". This means that only devices with atleast a rear camera will be able to see this. You can add android:required="false" tag which will tell the play store that a camera is not mandatory for it to show on app store.