Google Play: "Can't install Catima (2.29.0)"
Korb opened this issue · 3 comments
Installed version: 2.28.0
Target version: 2.29.0 (Google Play)
Download size: 3.01 MB
Required OS: Android 5.0 and up
Can't install Catima - Loyalty Card Wallet
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OS version: Funtouch OS 14
Model: V2153
Hardware version: MP_0.1
Build number: PD2201OF_EX_A_14.2.7.2.W20
Baseband version: S.HA.1.1.c2-00054-DIVAR_GENSP_PACK-1.29062.71
Kernel version: 4.19.157-perf+, 1 Fri Mar 1 16:22:31 CST 2024
Compile time: 1 Mar 2024 11:02:07
Android security update: 1 March 2024
Google Play system update: 1 March 2024
Hmm, I asked some people to try to update their Catima on Google Play today and they had no issues. I can also see several thousand users already updated without issue. So I think you're probably running into a temporary Google Play issue. Maybe try again and see if it works later and otherwise use Google's debugging steps.
Also make sure you're not trying to update a non-Google Play install through Google Play as that won't work.
So I'm closing this as I don't think there's anything I can do here, it seems to be a Google Play issue you're running into.
You are right, for some reason the Google Play application displayed the Catima application as installed from Google Play, although it was installed using F-Droid. In addition, in the system properties of the installed application it was written:
App details: App installed from F-Droid
I have not noticed Google Play behaving like this before. Could this be due to the fact that my beta tester status is displayed on Google Play?
Catima - Loyalty Card Wallet (Beta)
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Well, glad we found the cause :)
I've definitely seen Google Play try to update apps from F-Droid before and back when I was still part of F-Droid I tried to get that treated as a high priority issue (sadly to no avail).
Being a beta tester would definitely cause this to happen more often because Google Play Open Testing tends to approve the update several days before F-Droid builds it, so there is more time between the update being on Google Play and the update being on F-Droid.
I believe Google Play allows you to disable updates per-app so that it probably the easiest workaround. This issue itself is sadly out of my control.