Android Question Intent market pulling up alternative app stores and Google Play don't like it

[vikingivesterled]

I just got one of my long standing apps banned by Google Play because they say it points to other stores.
I'm using the:

Dim IntentSell As Intent
IntentSell.Initialize2("market://details?id=PackageName", 0)
StartActivity(IntentSell)

to upsell and that for a long time just went directly to the Google Play store.

But all of a sudden its pulling up an intermittent pop up where it asks
Open with:
and then a list of app stores on my device, wich is:
Huawei App Gallery, Galaxy Store and Google Play Store.
Witch I assume is all possible stores present on the device.

And although the only one that works was the Google Play Store (selecting theGalaxy Store went direct to the Google Play and Huawei store didn't work with the package name), Google just flat out suspended it so it can't be updated and gave me one strike for the noughty step.

Is this a new function of b4a or or the Android OS.
If the former there will be a big problem with recompiled apps being banned, and Google is doing a push for old apps to be updated.
Is there a way to only and directly open Google Play.

 

[Andrew (Digitwell)]

This https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/linking-to-google-play
page suggests that you can connect with the full URL

Summary of URL formats
The table below provides a summary of the URIs currently supported by the Google Play (both on the web and in an Android application), as discussed in the previous sections.

For this result	Use this link
Show the store listing for a specific app	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_name>
Show the developer page for a specific publisher	https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=<developer_id>
Show the result of a search query	https://play.google.com/store/search?q=<query>
Show an app collection	https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/<collection_name>
Launch a Google Play Instant experience	https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_name>&launch=true

 

[Pendrush]

Linking to Google Play | Android Developers

Learn how to build links that take users to your published apps in Google Play from browse or search.

developer.android.com

Example Java code:

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setData(Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.example.android"));
intent.setPackage("com.android.vending");
startActivity(intent);

B4a code (not tested):

Dim gpMarket As Intent
gpMarket.Initialize(gpMarket.ACTION_VIEW, "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=" & Application.PackageName)
gpMarket.SetPackage("com.android.vending")
StartActivity(gpMarket)