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Roman Barzyczak
Roman Barzyczak

Reputation: 3813

Referrer after updating app from Android Market

In my application, I implemented a Broadcast Receiver that catches com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER intents launched by Android after an app is installed from the Market.

I am following the details here: http://code.google.com/mobile/analytics/docs/android/#referrals

Does this referrer catch updates too? In other words, can the user open the Google Play store with the referrer and update application?

Upvotes: 9

Views: 1687

Answers (1)

Mattia Maestrini
Mattia Maestrini

Reputation: 32770

No, Google Play Store doesn't send com.android.vending.INSTALL_REFERRER intent when the app is already installed.

If your app's package name is com.example.android your URL will be something like this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.example.android&referrer=testReferrer

When you open the URL while the app isn't installed you can see in the logcat this debug log from Play Store:

1857-1857/com.android.vending D/Finsky﹕ [1] 1.run: Capture referrer for com.example.android

When you open the same URL while the app is already installed you can see this log instead:

1857-1857/com.android.vending D/Finsky﹕ [1] 1.run: Dropped referrer for com.example.android because already-installed

Upvotes: 7

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