Unable to deactivate the Android Staged Rollout app from the Play Store game zone.

Question

We uploaded the Android app to the Play Store as a phased rollout to 5% of the market. (You don’t know how Google defines the market here, but that’s another question.) We decided to uninstall the application and restore the previously published application. However, this is impossible to do. When I switch to advanced mode on the developer console, the "Deactivate" button appears in the "Actions" section of the version line. Clicking on "Deactivate" will display a red window "This configuration cannot be published for the following reasons: it is forbidden to reinstall devices that were previously mapped ...". However, the phased version of the deployment is being replaced by the previous production version, which is what we want. However, when I try to navigate from the page, I get: "You archived or restarted one or more APKs. Do you want to leave without saving?" There is no save button anywhere on the page, so leaving the page results in a phased version of the deployment is NOT deactivated! How can we turn off phased deployment?

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

After you click on the publication (regardless of whether it is delivered in turn or not), you cannot go to the previous version - only updates are allowed (i.e. from the code of the lower version to the higher version code).

You can publish an old version of your application with updated version code that is higher than the assembly that you pushed through the phased deployment - this will replace each version with the old version (regardless of whether they were part of the phased deployment or not).

I highly recommend learning Alpha / Beta testing with a large set of users to catch problems that might require a rollback to a previous production version. Alpha / beta testing also allows you to publish these versions only for a specific set of people (and update them separately from your build), allowing you to quickly fix problems as they arise before they affect your entire population.

Answer 2

@ianhanniballake This is not true. You should click ADVANCED MODE in the upper right corner of the console.

After you click on it, the buttons "Cancel publication" will be displayed and return to the working buttons.