I am facing this weird problem. My app works fine when I install it from Android Studio, or using a direct APK file. But when I download the same version of app from Playstore I face issues. Issues I face on Playstore version:
I am using MQTT conncetion in it, that apparently disconnects randomly. Sometimes an MQTT call goes through fine and other times same call fails. It could be that Android is garbage collecting my static variables too soon.
One more thing I want to highlight is that my app has some Flavor specific code and libraries. Not sure if that helps in identifying the problem.
Does an app installed from Playstore have different optimizations or something?
This is very strange issue for me.
I used signingConfigs in build.gradle to run my release APK on my device and I was able to reproduce the issue. Then I added Logs to catch the issue. It was an issue a quickJs library that I was using. I replaced it and it worked.