Google Play Store - Progrunning

Xamarin.Forms Android App Bundle (aab) DevOps YAML Pipeline

In my previous post I went through the process of creating a DevOps CD pipeline for Xamarin.Forms Android applications. I've received some feedback that even after following the blog post to the letter, build pipeline wasn't working for some of you. That got me thinking...

Xamarin.Forms

Create Xamarin.Forms Android App Bundle (aab) and release it to Google Play Store with DevOps

I've decided to update my DevOps CD pipeline for one of my applications to produce the aab package instead of the apk. Why you might ask? Mainly because I wanted to decrease the size of my app package, which in turn should potentially result in more downloads and/or less uninstalls.

Android

Google Play Store – Can’t install app (Error code: -504)

I did a brief search on the Internet what could be causing such behaviour and majority of posts were pointing at some issues with cached data by Google Play Store and/or Google Play Services somehow breaking installation process. They were suggesting cleaning cache of these to solve the problem.