How long does it take for an App to be approved and available in the Android and Amazon Market?

by Jaspreet Chahal on September 28, 2011 Leave a Comment

Some questions that has possible answers below:

Same question, different ways to ask 🙂

Fir of all lets answer “How long does it take for an App to be approved and available in the Android and Amazon Market?”

Quick answer from my experience

What if it doesn’t show up instantly even though the status of you application shows up as Published

Here are quick tips from me

In your manifest file check if all support screen setting is correct i.e. something like this
Check if the sdk version is properly set e.g.

If the above value is too high then that could be the issue
Check if your apk build does not have a /lib folder
Do NOT forget to hit Save button at the top for Google Android Market.
One Last thing make sure that you put a decent description to the App. I am not sure if that works or not but let me tell ya, It could be timing but when I released my first App to Droid market it had on 1 Line of description but then I wrote some more lines to make it like 300 characters+ And within a minute It was up and running. Now this could be totally a timing thing, but I did not retest the time it took to make my app live by removing the extra description that I wrote to see what happens as I didn’t want to take a Chance 🙂

I hope this helps

Cheers