can't find app on market

Question

I installed manually the apk of my app on Asus Transform and it works fine, I deployed it on the market but i can\'t find it (I can find it with my Samsung Galaxy Ace), shou

Answer 1

My application could work dynamically: in case the phone functionality was not available it would not try to use the phone functionality when user would press on any phone number inside of my application. In other case it would try using phone application to proceed to the call. Would that be possible? (i would then remove the feature from manifest).

Answer 2

CHeck out the permissions: you are asking for some things that the transform might not have (for instance: ACCESS_GPS, CALL_PHONE and WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE).

If the device doesn't support one of these (doesn't have a simcard, doesn't support GPS, etc), then you probably can't find it.

Answer 3

It could be that you are allowing the permission CALL_PHONE. If I'm not mistaken the Transform can't make a phone call. As a result the app is likely be filtered out of the market based on that.

Here's a quote from the page on developers.android.com

Each time you upload an application to the Android Market Publisher Site, Android Market scans the application's manifest file. It looks for <uses-feature> elements and evaluates them in combination with other elements, in some cases, such as <uses-sdk> and <uses-permission> elements. After establishing the application's set of required features, it stores that list internally as metadata associated with the application .apk and the application version.

When a user searches or browses for applications using the Android Market application, the service compares the features needed by each application with the features available on the user's device. If all of an application's required features are present on the device, Android Market allows the user to see the application and potentially download it. If any required feature is not supported by the device, Android Market filters the application so that it is not visible to the user and not available for download.

Here's a link to the page: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html

Hope this helps you out.

Edit - Sorry this duplicates Nanne's answer was typing as they were posting.