First: I’m not help vampire) I’m fighting with this issue for two days and I’m desperate to find solution. I’ve googled for the solution all over the inet and none is my case – this is the final stage and it feels hopeless.
To be clear: messing with AndroidManifest.xml doesn’t help (no empty or unclosed tags etc). Nor app size issue (official limit is 4GB). Nor browser\system cause tried in FF, Chrome, IE 9 , Win 7, MacOSX SL 10.6.4, from my PC and from remote Server with Win2008 – same error.
Second – I extracted the AndroidManifest.xml from the APK file I submitted successfully (one with 13MB size) and extracted AndroidManifest.xml from the APK I’m trying to submit (yes, it’s there! the size of this APK is 50MB) both with same apktool v 1.4.1. I compared the AndroidManifest.xml files with tortoise Diff – and the only difference between them is presence of android:targetSdkVersion="8" attribute in unuploadable APK and of course package name (diff only in .sub of com.mycompany.app.vers.sub – so i guess not a reason for this googlemare I’m having on ).
No way to give up on android:targetSdkVersion="8" – cause it can’t be a reason for the error too.
Both APK were created with File -> Export -> Android -> Export Android Application with same keystore and key. I uploaded another app – third one with same AndroidManifest.xml as first one (without android:targetSdkVersion="8") but also of small size – 9MB, nothing bigger works((!
Help – I hate google and android now, almost 🙂
The maximum size of an Android app to be uploaded to Android Market is 50MB. If you’re even one byte over this, I believe that the upload will fail. See this blog post for reference.