What causes this Android APK Upload error: “Non-upgradable APK”

Question

I have an Android APK in the Google Play store with an Target SDK of 23.

I have released a new version (same target SDK) and Google shows me this error:

If I

Answer 1

I got able to resolve this issue:-

The issue was with the versioncode - I am sure you have not defined any version code in your App and it is getting generated by this formula:

 versionCode = MAJOR * 10000 + MINOR * 100 + PATCH

But sometimes auto generated versioncode value of the latest release becomes smaller than the previous release (in your case 10403 < 104028) and that's why it shows non-upgradable APK.

What you need to do is:-

In your config.xml in tag add versioncode like below:-

android-versionCode="104280" 

104280 will work for you as it is greater than older version.

Now get it published without any error.

Thanks Sanny