how to Delete published application from my android market account?

Question

I have published the apk files at android market site with a bug. But i want to remove that application from the android market.

How to Delete a published application from my android market account?

Below Scenario’s tried for delete application: * From the application page click the upgrade>>click the delete button bottom of the page. * while clicking delete it's displaying the below error message

"An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later"

can anyone have the solution for this issue?

Regards, Jeyavel N

Solution 1

There is no delete of your application in the market. What you can do is to unpublish an application (what I just did).

What the OP described is just the delete function for an update you just uploaded. It does not delete or unpublish your application. It just delete the uploaded file of your upgrade.

To make it short: A published app can not be deleted, only unpublished.

Solution 2

Your published apk cannot be deleted it will be deactivated.

for that you should:

1) Unpublish app from market

2) after that in you Latest manifest add

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0"
. . .
</manifest>

You will need following:

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:versionCode="2"
android:versionName="1.1"
. . .
</manifest>

3) And sign again your apk from eclipse->Android tools->Export signed application package-> sign it->

4) Upload that Apk to market.

hope it will helps.

Solution 3

In my experience many errors can be solved by changing the version number into a higher one. If you don't change it, sometimes it returns with that error. Look at your manifest for: android:versionCode="xxxx"

It is pretty annoying that you cannot revert into a previous version after there is a catastrophic failure on the release. Being a one person company sometimes you cannot really get a good q&a for a release.

Solution 4

If you publish your app it can not be deleted, only unpublished. I had to upload new apps with new versionCode and deactivate the app that i tried to delete...

Solution 5

I don't think the intention there is to delete the whole app, I think it's to delete the changes you've just made... more like a "cancel" than a delete. If the intention were to delete the whole app then I doubt they'd put the option under "upgrade".

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