Google Play Console - How remove an update of published application

Simone Campagna picture Simone Campagna · Jan 10, 2018 · Viewed 59.8k times · Source

i'm desperate. I published the wrong update for an app on the play store by the new Play Developer Console.

No i need to rollback my update, simply REMOVING it and re-publish the previous.

I cannot understand 2 things:

  • how remove it from the apps versions menu
  • re-publish the previous one

Please help me! Thanks in advance

Answer

Jorgesys picture Jorgesys · Jan 10, 2018

In previous versions of Google Developer Console this could be possible unpublising the last .apk and enable to production your desired version

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but now it can´t be possible.

Note that rollbacks aren’t supported due to the app versioning requirements of the Android platform. If you need to rollback, consider launching a previous APK with a new version number. However, this practice should be used only as a last resort, as users will lose access to new features and your old app may not be forward-compatible with your server changes or data formats, so be sure to run alpha and beta tests of your updates.

You can see the previous releases but you can´t enable again:

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You need to create and publish a new release with a consecutive versionCode.

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