Android – ‘Start rollout to beta’ disabled in Play Store Developer Console

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I am ready to send my first app to beta testers, so i click on 'Manage Beta' > 'Manage testers'

add a new List with one tester in it .

and 'Save' and 'Resume'

APK is uploaded > 'Review'

The review summary says 'This release is ready to be rolled out.', but the button labled with 'Start to rollout to beta' is disabled: disabled button .

Best Answer

To see what still needs to be done, you can hover your mouse over the grayed out checkmark. There will be a popup that tells you what you still need to finish.

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Android – Strange OutOfMemory issue while loading an image to a Bitmap object

To fix the OutOfMemory error, you should do something like this:

BitmapFactory.Options options = new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 8;
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This inSampleSize option reduces memory consumption.

Here's a complete method. First it reads image size without decoding the content itself. Then it finds the best inSampleSize value, it should be a power of 2, and finally the image is decoded.

// Decodes image and scales it to reduce memory consumption
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Android – How to open the Google Play Store directly from the Android application

You can do this using the market:// prefix.

Java

final String appPackageName = getPackageName(); // getPackageName() from Context or Activity object
try {
    startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=" + appPackageName)));
} catch (android.content.ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
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}

Kotlin

try {
    startActivity(Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW, Uri.parse("market://details?id=$packageName")))
} catch (e: ActivityNotFoundException) {
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}

We use a try/catch block here because an Exception will be thrown if the Play Store is not installed on the target device.

NOTE: any app can register as capable of handling the market://details?id=<appId> Uri, if you want to specifically target Google Play check the Berťák answer