Google Play is not showing my app

Question

I read many many posts on stackoverflow and I also went through many tutorials like Vogella and theNewBoston to see where am I making a mistake in publishing my app. I exported signed application of my package, created new apk and keystore. I believe that debuggable = false is not required to be set now. Eclipse automatically does that. I can see my developer console showing my app as published however when i try to search google play on either my phone or pc, i cannot find my app. If only i use package name to search for my app, i can find it. my app is developed only for small and normal screen phones and not for tablets. I tried searching the app using numerous phones with no luck. attached here is my manifest. please tell me how to go over this issue.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.MyPackage"
    android:versionCode="2"
    android:versionName="1.1" >

    <uses-sdk
        android:minSdkVersion="11"
        android:targetSdkVersion="18" />

    <!-- These 4 lines have been added by user i.e me -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="com.google.android.providers.gsf.permission.READ_GSERVICES" />
    <!--
     The following two permissions are not required to use
     Google Maps Android API v2, but are recommended. added by me
    -->
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />

    <permission android:name="com.MyPackage.permission.MAPS_RECEIVE"
        android:protectionLevel="signature"></permission>

    <supports-screens
        android:anyDensity="true"
        android:normalScreens="true"
        android:resizeable="true"
        android:smallScreens="true" />

    <uses-feature
        android:glEsVersion="0x00020000"
        android:required="true" />

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />

    <application
        android:allowBackup="true"
        android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme" >
        <activity
            android:name="com.MyPackage.SplashScreen"
            android:label="@string/app_name"
            android:screenOrientation="portrait" >
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

                <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
            </intent-filter>
        </activity>

        <meta-data
            android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
            android:value="API Key" />



    </application>

</manifest>

Answer 1

It took almost couple of days for my app to show up. Just a small note, if you cannot find your app in the play store, try putting the name in double quotes like "Park The Car" or "Relationship Guru" and then search it. Even when Play store started showing my app, if I just search with the app name with no double quotes, I could not find it. I saw almost 500 apps and still I could not find my app. But on using double quotes, I got a perfect string match.

Hope this helps. Thanks a lot for helping me with this question.

Answer 2

There's possibility that the app that you're trying to search is not compatible with your device. That is why it is not showing up in your device. However, when you look up on the desktop site, it is visible. This is because, you are just viewing the app. If you will sign into you Google account, then you'll realise that when click the install button (on the desktop site) it will show you the devices that are associated with that account asking with their compatibility. Sometimes it is also that some apps are region specific and are not visible (due to the same reason)