Google play, I accidentally uploaded production APK, now can't do beta testing

Question

I first accidentally uploaded an APK to production in the google play developer console. Now when I click publish, it actually publishes my app to the play store, even thoug

Answer 1

I have an improvement on top of goodKode's answer. On this date (Oct 2016) there is no minSdkVersion that Play Store would accept and would yield 0 compatible devices - 26 is not allowed and 25 was released in August.

There are other limiting fields in AndroidManifest that can be used to the same effect. I picked and when uploading the APK to production, Play Store reports happily that 0 devices are supported but allows the upload. Result: the app cannot be found via search but is accessible with the beta link.

A full list of filters can be found here: https://developer.android.com/google/play/filters.html