Out of curiosity, have they approved any of your other recent apps?
I ask because Samsung has recently required Android apps to include their Samsung SDK. I’m just wondering how strict they are being about it recently. Especially since most of the features in their SDK won’t be useful to most developers and would just add unnecessary bloat to the APK.
No, last app they approved was 1.3 or so years ago. Then I stopped submitting new apps to samsung app store. I’m not sure
about their app store business model, but it’s very discouraging for developers to submit app to their store.
any solution for this. Samsung is rejecting app that does not continuosly update the OS volume when holding down the volume up/down key
rbm1155,
Well that’s extremely picky of Samsung. Google Play and Amazon have never rejected apps because of this. I suppose as an alternate solution you could always override the volumeUp/Down key events and then adjust the volume yourself via Corona’s audio.setVolume() function. But note that this function will adjust the volume for sounds played via the “audio” APIs and not the “media” APIs. It will not actually adjust the operating system’s volume levels. If your app is a game, then adjusting volume levels in this manner is pretty normal.
Hi Joshua,
Thanks for the response.
I think samsung is referring to OS volume, since it shows the slider volume control.
they want the slider volume to update.
i already made it work via audio.setVolume but it does not show the slider volume control which I think what samsung wanted.
Yeah, the audio.setVolume() will not display the operating system’s volume slider. This is because that function adjusts the audio stream’s “gain” at the OpenAL/OpenSL level.
Well shoot. If that’s what they want, then I don’t have a work-around for you.
Are you not able to negotiate with them about this and say that this is by your app’s design? I’ve seen other Corona made apps that always override the volume keys and handle the volume levels themselves, such as a separate volume level for background music and sound effects. That’s pretty normal for games.
I will try to compose a compelling response to Samsung, so they can re-evaluate.
I have my own other horrors submitting to Samsung , I have 5 apps approved 1.3 years ago, now i have 21 apps.
so I decided to upload the new apps. But hey, it’s really hard to get approved especially with their
extra special QA process.
Thanks for the reply Josh.
Out of curiosity, have they approved any of your other recent apps?
I ask because Samsung has recently required Android apps to include their Samsung SDK. I’m just wondering how strict they are being about it recently. Especially since most of the features in their SDK won’t be useful to most developers and would just add unnecessary bloat to the APK.
No, last app they approved was 1.3 or so years ago. Then I stopped submitting new apps to samsung app store. I’m not sure
about their app store business model, but it’s very discouraging for developers to submit app to their store.