Android - Different Builds

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Fri Jun 14 23:51:37 EDT 2019


For testing we could just do what we do now, since you can distribute to 
testers privately. I think we'd only need the bundle when submitting to the 
Play Store.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On June 14, 2019 10:01:40 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> From reading a little about it, I’m not sure why not.  Everything besides 
> the engine/splash stack would go in the common bundle (not the right name) 
> and then each engine would have its own slice.  The store would combine the 
> two pieces into the apk for delivery.  We would still need to produce the 
> apk for testing though (it looks like there is a way to pull an apk out of 
> the bundle too).
>
> How to do this is beyond me though....
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Jun 14, 2019, 10:55 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
>> This is good to know. But what I'd really like to see is the app bundle
>> that the Play Store expects. I wonder if that's possible.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On June 14, 2019 9:24:24 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Got it, it works...
>> >
>> > Jerry __ thanks for the chart!
>> >
>> > "Boy!" this needs to be documented somewhere...
>> >
>> > BR
>> >
>> > ?Jerry wrote
>> > So like this for your sequence if your highest used VC is 15 then:
>> >
>> > Build VC
>> > arm v7a 16 ---->next time --->20---->next time--->24
>> > arm64 17---->next time--->21--->next time--->25
>> > X86 18--->next time--->22--->next time--->26
>> > x86-64 19--->next time--->23--->next time--->27
>> >
>> >
>> > and so on, you see the 64 builds need to be higher vc then the 32bits
>> >
>> >
>> > Mark (W) wrote:
>> >
>> > > I wonder if the reason this didn't work is because you have the
>> > > version code
>> > > for armv7 > that for arm64...
>> > >
>> > > I suspect the play store will choose the highest version coded APK
>> > > that will
>> > > run on the target device. As ARMv7 APKs will run on devices which can
>> > > run ARM64,
>> > > it will choose the ARMv7 in preference (as it is version code 14,
>> > > which is greater
>> > > than 7) and thus 'completely shadow' the ARM64 APK.
>> > >
>> > > Upshot: probably best to make sure ARM64 APKs have higher version code
>> > > than
>> > > ARM7 ones (the same is true of x86-64 and x86 - but in that case
>> > > you've already
>> > > got version-code-of(x86-64) > version-code-of(x86) which is why you
>> > > aren't getting
>> > > a shadowed error for those)
>> > >
>> > > Warmest Regards,
>> > >
>> > > Mark.
>> > >
>> >
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