Google Play - Fully Shadowed apk

Question

I have an existing app on the PlayStore. I am releasing new version of the app as staged rollout. However, I am not able to publish the app due to \"Fully S

Answer 1

We ran into this problem as well with split APKs. We assigned version code for each ABI with the following gradle (simplified):

ext.abiCodes = ['universal': 0, 'arm64-v8a': 1, 'armeabi-v7a': 2, 'x86': 3, 'x86_64': 4, ...]

android {

  applicationVariants.all { variant ->

    variant.outputs.each { output ->
      def abiName = output.getFilter(OutputFile.ABI)
      def abiVersionCode = project.ext.abiCodes.get(abiName)

      output.versionCodeOverride = variant.versionCode * 100 + abiVersionCode
      ... 

With that we will have these APKs:

| ABI       | Version Code |
|-----------|--------------|
| universal | v100         |
| arm64-v8a | v101         |
| arm64-v7a | v102         |
| ...       | ...          |

And we got this "Fully Shadowed APK" error on APK v101. The reason is that any device that is on arm64-v8a will be able to install v102 since it is backward compatible.

Problem solved after we make the version code of armeabi-v8a higher than arm64-v7a.

ext.abiCodes = ['universal': 0, 'arm64-v7a': 1, 'armeabi-v8a': 2, 'x86': 3, 'x86_64': 4, ...]

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