Updating

Let’s say your app has been in the Play Store for a little while and you want to make a change. The simplest kind of change is to the program’s metadata—that is, the title, description, price, and all the other information you filled out in the previous section. To change this non-code information, simply select your program from the list on the Developer Console, make the change, and then click Submit Update.

Do you have a new version of your code? No problem, you can upload it from this page too. Before you do that, however, take a moment to verify that you’ve changed the two version numbers in your AndroidManifest.xml file. Increment android:versionCode by one every time you upload (for example, from 1 to 2), and bump the human-readable ...

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