Slight change to Android manifest...

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• albert988 Member

  August 2013

  GooglePlay will promote it?

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  August 2013

  cant understand what is relation with promotion and this lines.
  
  

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  August 2013

  may be android is trying to promote apps for tablet?

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• albert988 Member

  August 2013

  add screenshot and change in manifest
  
  Waiting for the promotion

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  August 2013

  @albert988 & @all
  
  great plz share the result if there is any change in downloads
  
  

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• albert988 Member

  August 2013

  @hgvyas123
  I will

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013

  Just wanted to post the same today. We had a great loss of Mashballs downloads, and I thought it was just the end of the peak, but turns out, Google Play has stopped allowing tablet users to download Mashballs and shows as incompatible.
  Since most of the Mashballs users where tablet users, thus huge decrease in downloads.
  So this is something new and was changed by Google lately. Also preparing an update

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• hgvyas123 Guru

  August 2013

  @ar2rsawseen
  
  was this happening since last month as i wonder same thing happened with my game save the animal
  
  

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013

  @hgvyas123 approximately yes

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  @hgvyas123 By promote I mean display it on the Play Store. Your app will still work if loaded directly, but chances are you won't be listed if you don't.

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• Rickyngk Member

  August 2013

  Interesting!, but why "16", and how about "18" ?

  http://www.guava7.com/

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• MobAmuse Member

  August 2013

  'Apps that are designed for tablets are showcased in the 'Designed for tablets.'

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013

  @Rickyngk they actually request at least level 14 (to indicate support for tablets), but it is a good practice to provide the latest sdk as you specified

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  August 2013

  @Rickyngk You can use 18, no problem.
  

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• jmrmbz Member

  August 2013

  Here's 2 blog posts about it:
  
  http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/04/update-on-tablet-app-guidelines-and.html
  
  http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2013/04/tablet-optimization-tips-in-google-play.html

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• atilim Maintainer

  August 2013

  @jmrmbz I was about to ask if there is an official information about this
  
  How about "17"? (because currently Gideros is built by using Android 4.2.2 SDK = level 17)
  

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• petec Member

  August 2013

  @atilim If I use 17 I get the message:
  Not targeting the latest versions of Android; compatibility modes apply. Consider testing and updating this version. Consult the android.os.Build.VERSION_CODES javadoc for details.
  
  If I use 18 the message goes away. Is there a problem with using 18?

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• atilim Maintainer

  August 2013

  @petec. interesting. then let me also update my Android SDK also and use 18.

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytorus

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  August 2013

  @petec the message is only a warning, because it is a good practice to use the latest version available. It should work correctly even with that warning

  http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile

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• petec Member

  August 2013

  @ar2rsawseen Yes, but I was just checking that things would still be OK if I use 18 as @atilim had said that Gideros is built by using Android 4.2.2 SDK = level 17. I've built an apk using 18 and it seems OK on my cheapo Chinese phone.

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