Xamarin Google Play Publish

In recent update Xamarin made it possible to publish android apps straight to the Google play (before you had to generate apk and upload it manually). More info These are my versi

Solution 1:

versionCode vs. versionName:

The versionCode is not shown to the user:

An integer used as an internal version number. This number is used only to determine whether one version is more recent than another, with higher numbers indicating more recent versions. This is not the version number shown to users

Ref: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/versioning.html

ABI Architecture:

Google does not breakdown the CPU Information/ABI Architectures in a Dashboard like they do for API level or screen resolution. You can get a device breakdown for your app install:

Ref: https://developer.android.com/distribute/googleplay/developer-console.html#app-stats

Assuming your app is not dependent on a 3rd-party NDK library that only supports a subset of all the ABIs, there is no general reason not to support multi-ABIs as you are just pre-limiting your applications available user-based.

Current API and Screen Sizes and Densities Distributions:

Ref: https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html