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    <title>The Amazon App Store is not great</title>
    <link>https://blog.asgaard.co.uk/amazon-app-store</link>
    <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 21 18:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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Today, I was trying to get <a href='https://asgaard.co.uk/wellburrito'>Wellburrito</a> onto the Amazon App Store.
<p>
I didn&#039;t expect it to pass validation first time because it has dependencies on a few Google services that I wasn&#039;t sure existed on Amazon devices. I expected it to fail with a message saying this, and then we&#039;d have to discuss whether or not to launch a limited version of it with those dependencies removed.
<p>
That didn&#039;t happen.
<p>
What actually happened was that it failed validation with the following message:<blockquote>
Your app submission does not meet one or more of our acceptance criteria for some or all targeted devices. Failure reason(s) are listed below:

We are unable to test your app as it does not function as intended. The app exits/ force closes/ freezes/ displays an error message after being launched. Please fix the issue and re-submit the app.
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<p>
This is a resoundingly unhelpful message. We&#039;re not going to randomly change our code and hope it passes validation. Why doesn&#039;t Amazon include the logcat output so[...]]]></description>
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<p>
Today, I was trying to get <a href='https://asgaard.co.uk/wellburrito'>Wellburrito</a> onto the Amazon App Store.
<p>
I didn&#039;t expect it to pass validation first time because it has dependencies on a few Google services that I wasn&#039;t sure existed on Amazon devices. I expected it to fail with a message saying this, and then we&#039;d have to discuss whether or not to launch a limited version of it with those dependencies removed.
<p>
That didn&#039;t happen.
<p>
What actually happened was that it failed validation with the following message:<blockquote>
Your app submission does not meet one or more of our acceptance criteria for some or all targeted devices. Failure reason(s) are listed below:

We are unable to test your app as it does not function as intended. The app exits/ force closes/ freezes/ displays an error message after being launched. Please fix the issue and re-submit the app.
</blockquote>
<p>
This is a resoundingly unhelpful message. We&#039;re not going to randomly change our code and hope it passes validation. Why doesn&#039;t Amazon include the logcat output so we can see what the crash actually is? 
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As such, Wellburrito will not be available through Amazon for the foreseeable future.]]></content:encoded>
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