Android - Uploading new APK with updated permissions to a published app

Question

So I'm having trouble uploading a new APK to the play store with billing enabled.

Currently I have a published app that is paid and I want to change it to a subscription app such that the users get a yearly subscription and hence latest data to the app.

Now my issue is that the developer console will not let me upload a draft APK with the permissions for billing enabled. I log into the dev console, go to APK, change from simple to advanced mode, save my new APK as a draft and once uploaded I get the following error:

This configuration cannot be published for the following reason(s):

All devices that might receive version 1 would receive version 2.

Some devices are eligible to run multiple APKs. In such a scenario, the device will receive the APK with the higher version code.

I updated the Version code and the version number to be one higher than the current as well as different combinations of upping only one of the two values with still no success.

The app is being signed with the same keystore.

Thanks, DMan

Answer 1

Figured out what this actually means now. Basically it was just telling me that I need to archive the current apk in order to actually publish the new apk. The new apk was successfully added as a draft. This message was just worded a little awkwardly and actually means that in order to publish version 2 version 1 must be archived NOT that there was anything wrong with the saved draft I performed.

Thanks, Dman