Problem trying to publish multiple APKs to the Google Play Store

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Good morning everyone.

I developed an application with Ionic using the crosswalk plugin. When compiling, two .apk files are generated, one for arm7 architecture and one for x86 architecture. Until then, everything ok. I tested both apks on compatible smartphones and both worked.

I performed the signing and alignment steps described in the Ionic Framework documentation .

My question is when you try to post to the Google Play Console .

The following Google documentation says that you can submit more of an apk for the same application. In this same documentation, it says that this is only possible when Advanced Mode is enabled.

To publish multiple APKs to the same application, you must enable Advanced mode on the APK file tab of your application (as discussed in the previous section). Once in advanced mode, you can load, enable, and then publish multiple APKs to the same application.

And in the above mentioned topic, it is written:

The Google Play Console offers two ways to manage the APKs associated with your application: simple mode and advanced mode. You can switch between these by clicking the link in the upper-right corner of the APK file tab .

The problem is, where is this blessed link in the upper right corner, I'm looking for the hours and not the date.

Thanks for your attention.

    
asked by anonymous 18.10.2017 / 15:03

1 answer

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I was able to solve it after much struggle.

What I did was:

1 - I ran a build, which generated the APKs with the internal version 100012, signed, aligned, uploaded the arm7 version and disregarded the x86 generated in this same compilation.

2 - I ran a new build, which generated the APKs with the internal version 100014, signed, aligned and uploaded the x86 version and despised the arm7 generated in this same compilation.

By sending the two apks to the Google Play Store, they were accepted.

For those of you who have the same problem, when you search the Google documentation, you'll see that there they mention an option called Advanced Mode. This option no longer exists, now, by default, more than one APK is supported for the same APP version.

    
20.10.2017 / 12:14