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If I send a fix to a user, will they continue to receive updates from the Play Store?

Let's say I have an application that users installed from the Play Store, if one of my users reports an error, and I want to send them a fixed version of the application for testing, they can install it on their phone in order. But if I update the application in the Play Store, will the user receive the update? My testing seems to indicate that it is, but are there any errors?

How my build process works is that every time I create it, it gets a higher version code, so the patched version will have a higher version code, which is currently in the Play Store, and then the downloadable version in Play Store after sending my user patch will have a higher version code again.

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I accept a decent wild guess here, but it should work if the following conditions are met:

  • The apk version code on Google Play is higher than the patch number.
  • First, the user installed the application from Google Play and only updated it using lateral download.
  • Fix and update Google Play signed with the same key.

I am sure this will work as I recall a long discussion about it on one of the google google groups, which ended in success. Unfortunately, I cannot find it right now.

If you try, send a message with the results.

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I do not see any problems with this workflow. While you increase the number of versions in each assembly.

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