androidgoogle-playwear-osandroid-wear-2.0android-wear-3.0

Google Play reject my wear os companion app with crashed when launch on phone


Can anyone help me clarify what does "Your application crashed when launch on phone" means for a wear os companion app? I tested my wear os app on API 28 and API 30, everything works fine. It is just an incremental update, but it keeps getting rejected recently by google play.


Solution

  • To post an update on this issue, long story short. For my android app with wear os companion, It was my android apps' problem with the release build using minification and shrinkResources with proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro' following the android doc. The proguard-android-optimize renamed a couple of class names so that the start of explicit intent crash on all android devices.

    The unfortunate things are: