“Your APK does not seem to be designed for tablets”

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Uploaded Android .APK to Google Play, but getting this message:

“Design your app for tablets: Your APK does not seem to be designed for tablets.”

Tested (didn’t help)

• Tried modifying 7″ and 10″ screenshots: no effect // (some pages said that if there is too much empty space in the image, you get these warnings)
• Tried adding bigger screenshots 1280×800 for 7″, 1920×1080 for 10″
• AndroidManifest.xml has:

  <supports-screens android:smallScreens="true" android:normalScreens="true" android:largeScreens="true" android:xlargeScreens="true" android:anyDensity="true" />

• Tried publishing with different Minimum API level (from 9 to 18)
• Modified AndroidManifest.xml to have android:minSdkVersion=”11″ (it was 9)
• Tried publish settings, Texture compression (Override): ETC1, ETC2
• Tried Override icons for Android
• Tried resizing icon file to 144×144 (it was 128×128)
• Added this to AndroidManifest.xml (shouldnt be related to this problem though)

  <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.telephony" android:required="false" />

• Tried removing “<supports-screens…” completely
• Tried adding “android:requiresSmallestWidthDp="72"” to “<supports-screens…”
• Set “uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=”14″” and “android:targetSdkVersion=”14″” (was 11 & 14)
• Adding these lines increased screenlayouts amount, but didnt remove the warning.. http://stackoverflow.com/a/19536830
• Created completely empty scene (in same project), moved Plugins/ folder away (it had the admob + AndroidManifest), no difference.
• There was a 2nd AndroidManifest.xml under “Plugins\Android\google-play-services_lib\”, changed that also to <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion=”13″/> (was 9)
• ..

Other things to try:

• Problem could be that i’m using some AndroidManifest.xml that came with Admob plugin(?)
• One page said, should publish different versions for each resolution.. doesnt sound good..
• This one says something about multiple folders for each resolution, seems quite hassle also.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17585576/folder-name-for-7-hdpi-tablet-android/17585605#17585605
• This page says the error message doesnt matter..Oo http://community.clickteam.com/threads/83107-quot-Design-your-app-for-tablets-quot-How-to-do-it-right?p=624449&viewfull=1#post624449
• Read documentation..

CURRENT “SOLUTION”:
– Just ignore the warning.. (link)
– Also it does display 3729 supported devices (tablets are listed there)
– ps. Here is the published app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unitycoder.onemoremove

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Links: (but not exact working solutions on these so far..?)

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17938163/designing-android-apps-for-tablets
• http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/209148-Your-APK-does-not-seem-to-be-designed-for-tablets-!-%28Google-Play-Developer-Console%29
• http://answers.unity3d.com/questions/172944/google-market-filter-by-screen.html

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Other errors/warnings:

“Design your app for 7-inch tablets.
You uploaded screenshots for 7-inch tablets, but your APK does not seem to be designed for 7-inch tablets.”

“Your Production APK needs to meet the following criteria:
Your layout should make use of the available space on tablets.”