Question

Quick question.

I have a few apps in the android market. They have all been in the market for about a year. Yesturday, I was in the Verizon store and decided to load all my apps on the phones in the store.

Well… I noticed that some of the newer phones didn’t find my apps in a market search. Is there a setting I need to change in my apps to allow newer phones to find the apps?

I am running CyanogenMod7 2.3.3 and my phone finds all the apps.

Stephen

Answer 1

Newer phones should be able to see your apps, as long as they support all options that you have specified in the manifest.

Are you sure that they all supported your requirements? Android version, screen resolutions, sensors etc.

Regarding how screen resolutions have to do with it. From the documentation:

Explicitly declare in the manifest which screen sizes your application
supports

By declaring which screen sizes your application supports, you can
ensure that only devices with the screens you support can download
your application. Declaring support for different screen sizes can
also affect how the system draws your application on larger
screens—specifically, whether your application runs in screen
compatibility mode. To declare the screen sizes your application
supports, you should include the element in your
manifest file.

Source

Edit. This is how you specify that you want to support multiple resolutions:

<supports-screens
 android:largeScreens="true"
 android:normalScreens="true"
 android:smallScreens="true"
 android:xlargeScreens="true"
 android:anyDensity="true" />