Quits on launch on Android Lollipop developer preview

widar · Post by **widar** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:09 pm

True. I just installed f2fffeb1 on a Nexus 9. This build appears to be broken.
76b71cab worked fine before.

Quester · Post by **Quester** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:35 pm

widar wrote:True. I just installed f2fffeb1 on a Nexus 9. This build appears to be broken.
76b71cab worked fine before.

This is exactly the one I installed.

Quester · Post by **Quester** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:47 pm

I've managed to get it working.

Downloaded the last stable build, it comes with all the plugins, installed both apk's and it's working now.

Just awaiting for the official build to come in the play store.

widar · Post by **widar** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 8:49 pm

Stable works on Lollipop now? Then why the hell isn't it on Google Play yet?

Post by **digitall** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 10:58 pm

widar: You could bother to search the previous forum threads as per Rule 1a: http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=17

The issues with the Android Market / Google Play since v1.5.0 are explained in this thread:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12624

widar · Post by **widar** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:11 pm

digitall wrote:The issues with the Android Market / Google Play since v1.5.0 are explained in this thread:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=12624

No, not really. That thread is about 1.6, whereas 1.7 has been up for months.

I don't want to bitch about that, though. It would just be nice to at least change the manifest of the APK on Google play to exclude Lollipop when it doesn't work anyway and link to this thread in the package's description or something like that.

I greatly appreciate all the work that went and still goes into this project, but this Play Store crap just makes the devs look stupid.

Post by **digitall** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:19 am

widar: Feel free to open a Pull Request to add maxSDKVersion to https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/blob ... est.xml.in ... This is no longer used in Android as it is deprecated, but the Play Store will apparently still use it when filtering offered downloads.

widar · Post by **widar** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:51 am

I'd have to patch against branch-1-7-0. Master would be useless as it works on lollipop at the moment.

Still, someone would have to republish it, so why bother?

Post by **digitall** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:12 pm

How constructive of you...

widar · Post by **widar** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:18 pm

Constructive?
I can send that one line (!) patch later if it helps. How long do you think it will take for an updated build to appear on Google Play?

Post by **digitall** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 12:22 pm

Don't worry about it. I will deal with the Pull Request.

In future, I hope that the Android Porter accurately blacklists all pre-release versions.