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Android wear app, No eligible devices for app install

I developed a wearable app, worked fine on my devices (Nexus 5, Samsung Gear Live and Moto 360) and put on playstore. However, when I browse the app on PlayStore, it said "No eligible devices for app install".

These are the permissions:

Phone: 

<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
    android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BODY_SENSORS" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />


<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />


<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE"/>


<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BIND_NOTIFICATION_LISTENER_SERVICE" />

Wear: 

<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
    android:required="false" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BODY_SENSORS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WAKE_LOCK" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.VIBRATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />

I already tried this:

<uses-feature
    android:name="android.hardware.type.watch"
    android:required="true" />

For both apps, still no luck. How to solve this problem? Thanks.

Edit: if you want to try the app, here is the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sleepalert.heartrate

Edit 2: For wear, I used this pair

    minSdkVersion 20
    targetSdkVersion 21

For mobile, I used this (those are defaults when I generated my project)

    minSdkVersion 17
    targetSdkVersion 21

Edit 3: after I remove the GET_TASKS permission as suggested, the app can be installed on my device running LolliPop 5, but not on my friend LolliPop 5.1, which is annoying since the newer one is supposed to be backwards compatible. Then if I change targetSdk to 22, it works on both. So in all, it's fine now. Hope helpful to somebody facing this crazy mess.

Solution

  • it seems that my phone is also not compatible. i would suggest you try to check if the app is avaliable in every country or has any restriction (being still in beta we should have acces to it ,thought), and check if all the permissions are necessary , could be that one of them , like GET_TASKS, wich is deprecated ( developer.android.com/reference/android/… ) could be blocking.