App not shown in 2.1 Market

Question

I published several free and paid app in the Market. I recently get several complains from customers about not finding my app in the 2.1 Market. Even if they have bought them before, they can't find it in the market or their download list after updating to 2.1.

Can anyone tell me what the problem is? My apps only require minimal SDK 3..

Thanks a lot!!

Update: It looks like that they are not shown because they have copy protection enabled. Is this a bug in the Market?

Answer 1

@CommonsWare, one of them is called App Protector Lite. I can see it on my Droid with verizon.

Answer 2

I am having this difficulty also using my ROM OpenEclair (www.openeclair.org) This only occurs on 2.1, but if it is a custom ROM - they may run into the trouble that the dev is using a Market from 1.6 instead of 2.1 Another possibility is using a 2.1 Market from a diff phone (such as the Droid Eris's Market on a Dream/Magic)

Answer 3

I think I found the answer and it has to do with recent changes in Google market filters on Jun 1st, 2010. Take a look at the following link: http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/market-filters.html

I found in my case that the app was hidden in some phones since I had included the following entry in my manifest:

Answer 4

I have the same problem with publishing on Market. App was published and appeared immediately on 1.5 (Hero) & 1.6 (X10) devices. But it is not visible on 2.1 (Desire, Milestone). App is free and unprotected.