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Ascot Harris
Ascot Harris

Reputation: 914

Non-game App gets treated as game by Samsung game launcher

Whenever I open my android app it triggers the game mode/game launcher on samsung galaxy s8. But the app isn't a game. In a previous version the app used opengl and it seems like samsung treats an app as game if it uses opengl. I already removed the opengl code but samsung still treats the app as game. The strange thing is when I change the application-id the app launches normally. So, I think samsung stores the application-id as game somewhere. Anyone ever had a similar problem with samsung game launcher?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 8102

Answers (8)

ttown
ttown

Reputation: 1

There used to be a simple way to mark an app as "not a game" to keep it out of game launcher. I can't find it now.

Upvotes: 0

hndvf
hndvf

Reputation: 141

this seems to happen on samsung phones due to the package name. since we cant change this after the first release, you must contact samsung developer support and they can fix it. i wrote a gist on github about it:

https://gist.github.com/Adnan-Bacic/718eb3b4e70380696c91dc21c4804112

Upvotes: 0

Md. Armaan-Ul-Islam
Md. Armaan-Ul-Islam

Reputation: 2184

To offer the best experience to the users, Samsung Galaxy devices have diverse processes and services. As a part of that, Games are recognized and categorized under the "Game Launcher" service on Samsung Galaxy devices to be well catered and managed.

Generally, this categorization is done based on the application category registered on the app stores. If the app (package id) is registered or enlisted as a game in any store, it's recognized and categorized as a game. That's the general procedure, but this categorization can be erroneous.

If your application is categorized as a game while not being a game app at all, please reach Samsung Developers Site > Support > Developer Support with the details:

  • Your application's use case and why it should not be categorized as a Game.
  • Package-id and content-id of your application.

You would get proper and rapid support from Samsung there.

Upvotes: 1

Ntiyiso Rikhotso
Ntiyiso Rikhotso

Reputation: 720

I was having the same problem and I resolved it by changing app.json package to something like

...
"android": {
  "package": "com.youruniquecompanyname.yourappname"
},
...

Upvotes: 3

Somebody
Somebody

Reputation: 1

I detect this happend when you use gaming mode.. try switch to balance mode.. it happend to me yesterday.. i still use gaming mode just turn off the lock & notifocation.. when gaming i turn on back.. oh yah im using samsung note 5..

Upvotes: 0

Ziad Gholmish
Ziad Gholmish

Reputation: 881

this problem happens if the package name is "com.exmaple" only Samsung detect it as game i do not know why, after i change the package name to "com.exmaple.android" it worked fine.

Upvotes: 8

Nickson Yap
Nickson Yap

Reputation: 1276

For Cordova v8.0.0:

You need to change the default package name in config.xml from:

io.cordova.hellocordova

to your own, for example:

com.yourcompanyname.yourappname

Upvotes: 0

Tony Nasr
Tony Nasr

Reputation: 11

this can be fixed in the google play services if i'm not mistaken you should check there at this time i'm actually a bit busy maybe when done i can check please more info about your problem

Upvotes: 0

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