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New Android Market Feature: Recent Changes

Just discovered this on my app in the Developer Console last night.
Here is the official explanation from the Android Market Help:
The recent changes feature provides an opportunity for you to add notes about the changes specific to the newest version of your application. Use the recent changes field to inform your users about the changes in your application.
Recent changes are linked to each app version, so with each update, you must submit items to the recent changes field. We recommend that each recent changes update is specific to the app version; previous changes will not be displayed to the user at this time, but may be visible in the future. Furthermore, the recent changes field (unlike the app description) have no impact on the search index, i.e. it will not impact the search results for your app.
In the Market app, these notes will appear under the app Description as "Recent changes".
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Neat! Thank you!

nice new features, it is a must for a market app..

Perfect
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Great addition!!

This is great! Over time, you won't have to search for changelogs anymore.

I've noticed this for a while now, the light gray area below the description will show changelogs. It was always frustrating when devs had to place them in the description field, or just ignored it altogether.

Now if they'd only let you filter out ****ty developers. That's the main thing I'd like to see.

This change screwed up my market app.
No more programs downloaded from market show up.
Running stock 2.1 JI6.

mveksler said:
This change screwed up my market app.
No more programs downloaded from market show up.
Running stock 2.1 JI6.
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All my downloads disappeared from the market a few days ago. When I do a market search for an app I have installed it lists it as installed. I uninstalled a one app and reinstalled and my downloaded apps reappeared!

wesssider said:
All my downloads disappeared from the market a few days ago. When I do a market search for an app I have installed it lists it as installed. I uninstalled a one app and reinstalled and my downloaded apps reappeared!
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Thanks for the tip that worked.

awesome! thanks

market and honeycomb

for those that have the iconia and already have an android device, did all of your apps restore/download? only a few of them showed up. also, after you have installed an app from the market place the app doesn't show that it's installed when you're browsing the market unlike the android smartphones.
last but not least, is there a way to stop the marketplace from automatically putting shortcuts for new apps onto the home screens?

yeah shortcuts on the hs are very annoying.
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shock2sys said:
for those that have the iconia and already have an android device, did all of your apps restore/download? only a few of them showed up. also, after you have installed an app from the market place the app doesn't show that it's installed when you're browsing the market unlike the android smartphones.
last but not least, is there a way to stop the marketplace from automatically putting shortcuts for new apps onto the home screens?
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I don't have backup or restore enabled. I figured it was device based anyway and that it would only restore to the same device you backed up from. For eg. the web market.
I didn't like the idea (on my phone either) of backing up bum settings and then restoring it to a master reset device, thus causing whatever issue made me master reset in the first place.
As for the app thing, you turn that off by going to the Google Market, selecting My Apps and then touching the button to the right of that, looks like 4 horizontal bars and a little arrow pointing southeast and unchecking "add shortcuts for new apps". This will make it so no shortcuts are added to any of the home screens automatically.
Hope this helps.

21productionz said:
yeah shortcuts on the hs are very annoying.
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Open the Market app, go to My Apps screen, open menu, uncheck Add shortcuts for new apps option.

[Q] app drawer icon problem

Need some help. I've installed a speedometer app (switch that lights up the console in my truck went bad) and am having trouble getting rid of the icons in the app drawer. So far I've tried to reinstall the app and uninstall it with no luck. It doesn't show up in titanium after uninstalling the app. I can't find an apk after uninstalling the app. Any help?

What app? Can you back into the play store and install it that way?
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Sorry. Forgot details. Locked bootloader, rooted running gpe ROM thru safestrap. Digihud speedometer is the app spedo app
I could upgrade nova launcher or use another launcher to hide the problem. And I would go insane knowing I didn't fix it.

scuzzo500 said:
Sorry. Forgot details. Locked bootloader, rooted running gpe ROM thru safestrap. Digihud speedometer is the app spedo app
I could upgrade nova launcher or use another launcher to hide the problem. And I would go insane knowing I didn't fix it.
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Interesting app, it looks cool but it really f'd up my device. I could uninstall it with tibu but it left something behind. Do you have a nandroid you can restore? Do a wipe before restoring the nandroid. That was the only way I got my device back to normal
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Well ****.

Hi, developer here
Hi guys, ok this is something I've not seen whilst testing it on the few physical devices I have and in the emulator. I'm not sure what's happening here but obviously I'm keen to help if I can.
The app has two main parts, the full screen display and a windowed view that is shown in front of other apps, the latter runs as a service. Both parts have settings in the manifest to enable them to be launched from icons and two icons are created when the app is installed. Whenever I've uninstalled the app both icons have been removed from the app drawer. My devices are mostly but not all rooted.
Feedback has been mixed about whether two icons are needed; some people don't want the window icon and ask how it can be removed, others like it so they can call it with other apps like AutomateIt. Because the majority of feedback was against it I've removed it from the paid version of the app...but now there are requests to have it again. Hopefully my solution will be to be able to install a shortcut if required.
Sorry, back to your problem! I'm surprised TIBU doesn't remove it if I'm honest, although the Android uninstall should remove it all. There's nothing unusual or malicious in the code (i'm really not that clever!) to prevent it uninstalling.
If a link to a particular version of the .apk helps let me know and I'll post it if I can.
I'll do some more testing and see what I can find and post anything useful here.
Sorry for the hassle.
James

Would a catlog help in troubleshooting the issue. As JD said it is an interesting app. The HUD display works great (very clever idea there), but I want to be able to remove that icon. I like to keep my app drawer paired down to as few apps as possible and that one icon sticks out to me.

scuzzo500 said:
Would a catlog help in troubleshooting the issue. As JD said it is an interesting app. The HUD display works great (very clever idea there), but I want to be able to remove that icon. I like to keep my app drawer paired down to as few apps as possible and that one icon sticks out to me.
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I totally understand. The logcat may well help me see what's up.
Thanks.

Log sent.

Pop-Up ads appearing on home screen and over apps

Since yesterday I've been getting ads that pop up over any and every app when I start them.
I've had this happen from an app I installed once before and uninstalling fixed it, but this time I tried uninstalling everything I've installed or updated in the past 2 weeks but they still keep popping up.
And none of the ad detectors can find these type of ads so does anyone know how to track the source?
Also this is the app I had and removed months ago that gave same problems https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=game.gles.rubikcube

Some apps running in the background causes this. Uninstall all the free app or cracked apps from your phone

I've uninstalled everything from 2 weeks before it started, and it isn't just cracked apps that cause it like you'll see by looking at the comments of the app I linked to.
So I need a way to find the app or process to find it.

Michael_P said:
I've uninstalled everything from 2 weeks before it started, and it isn't just cracked apps that cause it like you'll see by looking at the comments of the app I linked to.
So I need a way to find the app or process to find it.
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You can try this:
- Install Shortcut Master app.
- Open Menu > Capture Shortcut. Here you can select 'Manually capture' and 'Auto capture', which one is suitable for you.
That way you can capture the shortcut when the ads appear. You can also know which app that the ads belong to.

i have the same problem, when i unlock th phone appear chrome window with ads, or suddenly a window over any aplication that i use inthat moment.
dam.

Samsung is adding support for ad blocking to its browser app on Android.
News detail
The first content blocker available for Samsung's Internet is Adblock Fast, which is also available for iOS and Chrome and Opera on the desktop.

Missing apps in google launcher

Hey guys I downloaded the google launcher and I don't have any apps in the drawer, going to Nova and touchwiz doesn't have this problem. I've read on other forums similar issues but no fix. Any ideas? Btw nothing is disabled in package pro. Also did a clear data for touchwiz

Same issue here. I just bought a brand new SM-G955U (AT&T). Steps I've done so far with phone:
1) Turned on phone, signed in with google
2) Signed into Samsung account, setup acct, setup gearS3, samsung pay, then I logged out and signed in as a different samsung user (just to match the google acct).
3) Installed all the Google apps, updated everything, finished hours later.
4) Installed Samsung update, approx 45mb
5) Install Google Launcher from app store. Setup all my shortcuts, font-size, wallpaper...
6) Woke up this morning, opened the app drawer using the Google Launcher, shows no apps, just the words "Search Apps"
7) Switched back to TouchWiz, all is ok, working as normal.
8) uninstalled Google Launcher, reinstalled, still no apps in drawer. Also tried to clear the App-Cache, no go.
9) I tried to install the "Pixel Launcher" from the XDA forums, where it did work fine on my Moto Z Play, still no apps in drawer on my GS8+.
There seems to be some posts on other sites related to the same symptoms, but with older devices from about 2-3 years ago. They point to Knox as the culprit, but no step-by-step instructions on how to permenantly fix the issue.
Anyone? Ideas? Please?!
JonnyB

It's not compatible with secure folder. If you enable it, you won't see any apps in the app drawer

I tried disabling secure folder in package pro and it doesn't fix the problem

quangtungnguyen said:
I tried disabling secure folder in package pro and it doesn't fix the problem
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You actually have to uninstall it if you've opened it once, not just disable it

I uninstalled Google Launcher and all my apps re-appeared.

craya said:
You actually have to uninstall it if you've opened it once, not just disable it
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You cant uninstall the secure folder

I had the same problem and it's not Google, it's Samsung. I realized that only my games were not showing up but I could search them in settings. Turns out they were going to the game launcher. In game launcher settings there is an option to hide apps on home screen and drawer. Well, that is enabled by default. Hope this helps