Submitting app updates to Play Store is fraught wi...

# compose-wear

[Jonathan]

Submitting app updates to Play Store is fraught with frustrations. I’m literally getting rejections for issues I’ve already addressed. Furthermore, the issue repeatedly brought up, wasn’t mentioned in my previous 3 app submissions, even though I hadn’t made any changes to that part of the app since initially correcting/remedying them.

[yschimke]

Which one was it this time? The team is listening but visibility is needed into where it's not working. And I can offer to raise if unfair or help solve it if a blocker.

[Dustin]

Sorry I know it’s not kotlin, but this is a huge issue. It is genuinely one of the most kafkaesque things I’ve ever encountered. Adding a wear app makes your life so much more difficult, every other release gives a random rejection with very little detail, and half the time just releasing the same build again fixes it, there’s no rhyme or reason to any of it.

For me in particular with an app built on horologist the Missing scrollbar issue has been popping up a lot lately, but no explanation of which scrollbar / screen or what the actual rule even is on this

[Dustin]

is there an update on https://github.com/google/horologist/issues/1137 @yschimke?

[yschimke]

This is no longer a requirement.

[yschimke]

But I believe it's considered for wear compose 1.4? But I can't promise things for another team. You don't strictly need it.

[yschimke]

Did they provide screenshots with the rejection?

[Jonathan]

@yschimke My issue is rejections regarding the a 48x48 icon over a black screen. I addressed this two weeks ago (using the guide linked here), and my subsequent app submission had no issue with this.

[Dustin]

@yschimke I got a rejection for it this morning 😕 . no screenshot, no more detail, it just links to this.

[yschimke]

Can you DM me or share here your app id?

[stevebower]

As Yuri hinted above, in 1.4.0-alpha01 of Compose for Wear OS there's a fix so that the PositionIndicator is shown initially when navigating to a scrollable screen. Although AFAIK that specific Wear Quality requirement has been updated or removed.