Amazon app store Multiple APK Support like Android market?

Question

Does Amazon app store support multiple APK uploading like Android market?

Answer 1

You can visit developer.amazon.com. Create an account there and your are free to upload android apps. They also give you an option to choose when do you want the app to be available for the users. Unlike android market, the app will not be live immediately. It will undergo a review process and only after approval it will become live. You cannot edit the apk details once it is sent for review.

Answer 2

The Amazon Appstore does support multiple APKs for the one app. This is confirmed in the Amazon documentation. It is possible to upload multiple APKs for different platforms and capabilities including screen size and density, OpenGL compression format, architecture or API version.

Multiple APK support in the Amazon Appstore works the same as the multiple APK support in the Play Store, where the app android:versionCode must be unique for each uploaded APK.

You can use the gradle build script to automate the generation of unique versionCode for the multiple APKs. Here is an example that generates different APKs based on device architecture:

   splits {
        abi {
            enable true
            reset()
            include 'x86', 'armeabi', 'armeabi-v7a'
            universalApk true
        }
    }

    project.ext.versionCodes = ['armeabi': 1, 'armeabi-v7a': 2, 'arm64-v8a': 3, 'mips': 5, 'mips64': 6, 'x86': 8, 'x86_64': 9]

    android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            output.versionCodeOverride =
                project.ext.versionCodes.get(output.getFilter(
                    com.android.build.OutputFile.ABI), 0) * 10000000 + android.defaultConfig.versionCode
        }
    }

Answer 3

This feature is unsupported by Amazon Market

http://www.amazonappstoredev.com/2011/02/when-to-create-multiple-binaries-for-your-app.html