Android Question How to exclude TV, Wearable, Car & Chromebook devices

toby

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My app is designed to work on phones and tablets, and currently in Google Play store, it is shown supporting those devices in question. What can I do to exclude them?

TIA

current manifest settings: 
<supports-screens
    android:xlargeScreens="false"
    android:largeScreens="false"
    android:normalScreens="true"
    android:smallScreens="true"
    android:anyDensity="true"/>)

 
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Here is the solution, https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7353455?hl=en#zippy=,exclusion-status

View and restrict your app's compatible devices
After you've uploaded at least one APK to your Play Console, you can view the catalog of available devices and review which devices are compatible with your app. To help ensure the widest availability of your app, review your supported and excluded devices lists regularly.

Keep in mind, the device catalog doesn't apply to instant apps.
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Heuristx

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...Then the tablet user will download the program and give it a one-star rating, saying something like "I wish there was a zero rating..."

I am struggling with this setting on Google, too, it is an awful design. I wish I could give it a zero-star rating.
 
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toby

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Here is the solution, https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/7353455?hl=en#zippy=,exclusion-status

View and restrict your app's compatible devices
After you've uploaded at least one APK to your Play Console, you can view the catalog of available devices and review which devices are compatible with your app. To help ensure the widest availability of your app, review your supported and excluded devices lists regularly.

Keep in mind, the device catalog doesn't apply to instant apps.
 
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Heuristx

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Sure, I've read this, but still, the interface behaves in mysterious ways. Unless they have changed it since - they keep changing stuff at a frightful rate!
 
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