Samsung rejecting ARMv6

Solar2D Android
#1

Hello guys!

I have already a dozen apps in various stores including amazon, playstore, nook and apple. So I decided I could upload to Samsung’s. I did but my app that works great in all other stores was rejected. The reason is that I won’t support ARMv6 processors. Is there any way to go around this?

thanks

#2

So it’s not that Samsung is rejecting ARMv6, its that your App is rejecting ARMv6, which makes sense given that’s a restriction of Corona SDK.

The only way you could work around this is to build your app using a sufficiently old version of Corona, perhaps 12-18 month old builds - I think there may be ARMv6 support in very old builds though you would lose various features of newer builds.

(Actually, one danger with that approach…not sure how compatible the Build Server is with ancient build processes?)

#3

Thank you Ric.

Yes I suppose I can do that but then people with older phones probably won’t buy my apps.

I unchecked compatibility with those older devices and see if they approve my app, we’ll see.

thanks

#4

You probably would be better determining which ARMv6 devices are Samsung and excluding them from the submission.  If you choose to build with a very old Corona SDK be aware that there have been enough breaking changes from the main stores that you can’t submit to Apple, Google and Barnes & Noble with the build that still supports ARMv6.

#5

So it’s not that Samsung is rejecting ARMv6, its that your App is rejecting ARMv6, which makes sense given that’s a restriction of Corona SDK.

The only way you could work around this is to build your app using a sufficiently old version of Corona, perhaps 12-18 month old builds - I think there may be ARMv6 support in very old builds though you would lose various features of newer builds.

(Actually, one danger with that approach…not sure how compatible the Build Server is with ancient build processes?)

#6

Thank you Ric.

Yes I suppose I can do that but then people with older phones probably won’t buy my apps.

I unchecked compatibility with those older devices and see if they approve my app, we’ll see.

thanks

#7

You probably would be better determining which ARMv6 devices are Samsung and excluding them from the submission.  If you choose to build with a very old Corona SDK be aware that there have been enough breaking changes from the main stores that you can’t submit to Apple, Google and Barnes & Noble with the build that still supports ARMv6.