Debug builds no longer allowed for Live App Test?

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David Mihola asked · Jul 01, 2020 at 09:42 AM

Debug builds no longer allowed for Live App Test?

I am absolutely, positively sure that we have previously deployed debug builds of our Android app to Live App Tests.

Recently, however, whenever I try to upload a debug build it get the message "Invalid input". When I then upload the release APK from the same Gradle build run, everything works fine, so I am guessing the problem is indeed related to the build being a debug build.

Can anybody confirm that there has been in change in that regard? That debug builds were OK for Live App Tests at some point but are not anymore? Or should I be looking into our build process further?

Needless to say, whatever the actual reason for the rejection, "Invalid input" is not the optimal error message that could be expected in such a case... ;-)

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Answer 1 · 2020-07-02T06:50:55Z

David Mihola answered · Jul 02, 2020 at 06:50 AM

To answer my own question:

Yes, it seems that debug builds indeed not allowed anymore. Or, to be more precise: Builds that have the debuggable flag enabled. So, if you want to upload one of your debug builds (for example, to be able to read the logs over logcat), just add the this to your build.gradle:

buildTypes {
    debug {
        debuggable = false
    }
}

Of course, the app still won't be debuggable in the sense that you can connect the actual debugger but otherwise it will be your normal debug build.

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