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miannelle2
miannelle2

Reputation: 301

android market exclusion

My app is being filtered by the android market. I have users contacting me because they cannot find my app in the market. I allow them to download it from my website and it works perfectly.

Here is my manifest data: Manifest: 

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

Here are the Android Market Messages:

This apk requests 4 permissions that users will be warned about android.permission.INTERNET android.permission.CAMERA android.permission.VIBRATE android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE

This apk requests 5 features that will be used for Android Market filtering android.hardware.camera android.hardware.camera.autofocus android.hardware.screen.landscape android.hardware.screen.portrait android.hardware.touchscreen

Looking in the market, there are hundreds of devices that are being excluded. What can I do to remove these exclusions to be able to provide my app to these users?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 569

Answers (3)

Eric
Eric

Reputation: 5402

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-permission-element.html

If you request a hardware-related permission — CAMERA, for example — Google Play assumes that your application requires the underlying hardware feature and filters the application from devices that do not offer it. To control filtering, always explicitly declare hardware features in elements, rather than relying on Google Play to "discover" the requirements in elements. Then, if you want to disable filtering for a particular feature, you can add a android:required="false" attribute to the declaration.

So you probably need one of these too:

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

Upvotes: 0

Kurtis Nusbaum
Kurtis Nusbaum

Reputation: 30845

Setting the min and max sdk level in your manifest might help as well.

http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/api-levels.html#uses

Upvotes: 0

strmstn
strmstn

Reputation: 872

There is no way to remove the permissions if you are using them in your application. Removing them and using the functions anyway would result in exceptions.

Other things that might cause the filtering could be the Content Rating, pricing or the country settings.

Upvotes: 1

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