An article and a vote on whether it is possible to use the Xiaomi app store together or (God forbid) instead of Google Play, if you are a developer. Apps are published almost manually on the GetApps Console side by Xiaomi employees themselves. The application disappears after the update and is not available, neither the new nor the old version of the application. While the number of Xiaomi mobile devices in Russia is more than 17% *
Application with more than 1,000,000 users on Google Play.
I would like to hear the official answer from Xiaomi
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I am developing a mobile application and have posted it on Google Play.
Then I found out that some third company posted it on Xiaomi GetApps.
I wanted to control the process of publishing applications in Xiaomi GetApps myself.
For this, I had to sign an empty project with my key, in my opinion. Happened.
Story
And now, recently, I decided to update my application in Xiaomi GetApps.
I downloaded a new version (it was necessary to download the application icon and description of not only innovations, but also the description of the application itself).
I look, and the region of distribution is only Mainland China.
And the other cannot be selected, although the application is available in the GetApps client in Russia.
Well, I think, okay, I sent it for verification.
It lay there for a week and there was no decision on the new version.
Suddenly a funny letter comes:
Like, users are asking for a new version, why don't you post it?
I am writing to the return address: overseas-dev@xiaomi.com
That they say, I have already posted a new version, why are you not considering my application?
Almost immediately, a refusal to publish a new version of the application comes, and the current version of the application is also removed from publication .
The reason is that the app is not translated into Chinese.
I say: So I don't want to distribute my application in China, I want it in the USA, Europe and Russia.
They almost immediately: Ok. log out and log into the developer console again.
I go to the developer's console and see the following:
Well, there is Russia, thanks already. And Ukraine? And the CIS? And Europe? Only represented by Spain?
Okay, I think, let it be only Russia, I want to publish a new version (the current version of the application has not been published, after Xiaomi advised me to exit the console and transferred me to its new version ).
I want to publish, but the publish button is locked.
Well, I removed disabled = "disabled"
Then at least errors started showing. First, GetApps told me that since the application is only in Russian, it can only be published in Russia. And obviously there are no Russian-speaking people in / in Ukraine, Belarus and Germany? Although there are no European countries at all in my GetApps console, except for Spain.
There were still some 1-2 errors, I corrected them.
Well, I think I'll publish it. I press and see:
I see a Null error. What am I supposed to do? wrote at overseas-dev@xiaomi.com
Zero reaction.
At this time, the current version of the application was never published , although it was published more than a year before.
I wanted to call the Russian representative office of Xiaomi on the hotline
+ 7-800-775-66-15, the autoinformer answers me that the subscriber is not available.
Autoinformer answer sound: gofile.io/d/zf0DQI
It was 07/06/2020 at 11:59 a.m.
at 14:45, the hotline phone started working. You can write about this about everything at service.global@xiaomi.com, while I'm waiting for a response from overseas-dev@xiaomi.com
upd 07/06/20 15:56 : wrote to service.global@xiaomi.com, put overseas-dev in a copy @ xiaomi.com and gave a link to this article.
17:37 Zero reaction, not even a response letter.
By the way, only 400 characters are given for the description of the application in GetApps.
The app description is given 400 characters, Karl.
And they give 500 characters for the description of innovations:
GetApps console now shows that the application is not published in GetApps:
"NOTHING HERE"
I also omitted this, as they answered me in Chinese.
Xiaomi GetApps is a fairy tale.
Application with over 1,000,000 users on Google Play.
I would like to hear the official answer from Xiaomi
* The number of Xiaomi mobile devices in Russia is more than 17%