Android Question Impacts from having your Google Play account closed

[pjrebordao]

Due to some distraction and lazyness on my part my Google developer account was closed. This because I hadn't published aby new app or update for a year.
It's a good warning to everyone.

Unfortunately, everything is thrown away with no possibility of recovery whatsoever. You have to do everything from scratch again.
You have to change the name of your app and even use a different email for your account.

Anyway... I've done all that by now and the application is running and available for testers in Play store.
But I'm having an issue: The app main purpose is to establish a BLE connection to an Arduino powered device and download data from there and store it in a file.
And the app isn't being able to establish the connection anymore.

While building the app, I created a new build configuration with the updated package name, but I didn't generate new UUIDs for the characteristics.
Could this be the issue ?

Thanks

 

[emexes]

but I didn't generate new UUIDs for the characteristics.

What was wrong with the previous characteristic ids?

Did they need to change?

Did they change?

As long as both sides of the BLE GATT connection agree on the ids, whatever they are, should all work fine.

If not, then... nRF Connect app to the rescue! (as in: it can confirm that at least one side of the connection is working).

 

[pjrebordao]

I didn't change them. I was just wondering if changing the app name would also imply changing the UUIDs.

I had forgot about nRF... I did use it when developing the app. I'll try it.

 

[pjrebordao]

Yep, the Arduino gizmo is working fine (well the code hadn't changed). So it's the app side.

 

[pjrebordao]

Solved! Embarrasing mistake. As app name changed I had to reenable BT permissions on the phone.

 

[LucaMs]

Due to some distraction and lazyness on my part my Google developer account was closed. This because I hadn't published aby new app or update for a year.

The reason should be another, because I have not published or updated apps for a few years and my account is still active.

 

[pjrebordao]

Well, that's the reason given... Sorry, it's in Portuguese

 

[pjrebordao]

As I had to create a new account, and since late 2023 the requirements to publish an app have been tightened, now I have to comply with them.
Namely several testing cycles (internal, closed, open). I'm currently on the closed phase which requires at least 20 testers to be invited and partcipate.
Not so easy...

I'm enrolled as a personal developer. If I was as a company, would that be simpler ?

Thanks

 

[asales]

Well, that's the reason given... Sorry, it's in Portuguese

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Vi que está tendo muitas ocorrências deste tipo, nos fóruns em português que frequento, de contas sendo encerradas por inatividade.

I noticed that there are many occurrences of this type, in the Portuguese forums I frequent, where accounts are being closed due to inactivity.

 

[asales]

As I had to create a new account, and since late 2023 the requirements to publish an app have been tightened, now I have to comply with them.
Namely several testing cycles (internal, closed, open). I'm currently on the closed phase which requires at least 20 testers to be invited and partcipate.
Not so easy...

I'm enrolled as a personal developer. If I was as a company, would that be simpler ?

Thanks

Check this (I don't tested):

DevsPayForward~for 20 testers - Apps on Google Play

To pass the closed testing. You can easily get 20 testers.

play.google.com