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how to exclude specific devices

how to exclude device's

Reasons to Exclude Devices

Before you go configuring your application listing on the store from excluding specific devices, give some thought as to why you are doing so. Under normal circumstances, you should be able to solve any incompatibility issues using the market filters built into the platform. For example, you should be setting the Android Manifest file settings to filter your application in terms of appropriate API Levels and other flags. Some reasons you might want to use the manual exclusion feature of the Android Market include:

Excluding a problematic device, such as one that routinely has caused your application to have bad ratings (until you can fix the problem).

Excluding a class of devices with specific form factors, features, or configurations not supported with Android manifest file settings (like excluding all tablets).

Excluding all devices from a specific manufacturer for contractual reasons.

Forcing your application to be published only on a very specific subset of devices (and no others), likely for business reasons.

The first option is the only real technical reason this would be needed. It’s a good option if you need to quickly disable access by certain devices while you come up with a fix or workaround to the issue.

Login to Your Account

You must have a valid google account and an application ready to publish or already published to manage an exclusion list. Each application can have its own exclusion list that is managed separately; they may not be combined at this time. We will assume your application is already uploaded to the Android Market.

Select the Application to Manage

On your play store Developer dashboard, you should see all Android Market listings when you login to your account. Choose the application you want to manage by clicking on its name. This will bring you to the Product details tab of your application’s profile, where you can upload screenshots and other information for the application’s market listing. The compatible devices are based on the latest APK file, so make sure this file is up to date before you configure any specific publication options.

Configure the Publishing Options

croll down the Product details tab to the Publishing Options section. At the very bottom of this section, there is a configuration option called Supported Devices. By default, this section will show the number of devices that match the configuration defined by your application’s Android manifest file. For example, this section might look like.

Excluding Specific Devices

To exclude specific devices, click on the Show devices link next to the sentence that states how many devices your application is available to. This launches the Device Availability dialog, which lists all the devices that the Android Market will currently publishes your application to. By default, this list is organized by manufacturer. So, for example, I could decide I didn’t want my app on my Asus Transformer Prime by selecting it from the list of available devices, as shown below.

Searching for Devices

You can use the Device Availability dialog to search for specific devices by manufacturer, name, or device brand name.