Google Play updating when a table is not a phone

[Penfound]

Hi guys,

This little problem has just popped up and bitten me in the rear end.

I have an app which has both a public view and the members only view. The app determines who is who by reading the phone number of the device and matching it with a known number of a member.

However, two of us, so far, have acquired tablets and I have just found out the Google Play won't allow the app to be updated on our tablets because it says there are not compatible.

I am assuming that this is because I need to read the phone it. The app works fine when pushed from the USB because I have included code to read a unique serial number of the device instead of the phoneid.

To overcome this one, do I have to forget about the phone numbers and only read the serial numbers? OR is there a better way?

Cheers
Penfound

 

[thedesolatesoul]

As long as your code knows its a tablet you can use this:
http://www.b4x.com/forum/basic4andr...t-phone-will-listed-supported.html#post135760

 

[yttrium]

This might be an issue regarding your manifest and how if you try to use phone features, Play will only let it install on a device with a radio capable of those features (non-cell tablets are excluded, as are media players like Samsung's iPod ripoffs).

I guess tds beat me to say that.

You should probably only use one method like device ID though, in order to get around possible duplicates.