Multiple APK Support in Android Market

[This post is by Eric Chu, Android Developer Ecosystem. —Dirk Dougherty]

At Google I/O we announced our plans to add several new capabilities to help developers manage their products more effectively in Android Market. We’re pleased to let you know that the latest of those, multiple APK support, is now available. Multiple APK
support is a new publishing option in Android Market for those developers who want extra control over distribution.

Until now, each product listing on Android Market has included a single APK file, a universal payload that is deliverable to all eligible devices — across all platform versions, screen sizes, and chipsets. Broad distribution of a single APK works very well
for almost all applications and has the advantage of simplified product maintenance.

With multiple APK support, you can now upload multiple versions of an APK for a single product listing, with each one addressing a different subset of your customers. These APKs are complete, independent APKs that share the same package name, but contain
code and resources to target different Android platform versions, screen sizes, or GL texture-compression formats. When users download or purchase your app, Android Market chooses the right APK to deliver based on the characteristics of the device.

When you upload multiple APK files, Android Market handles them as part of a single product listing that aggregates the app details, ratings, and comments across the APKs. All users who browse your app’s details page see the same product with the same description,
branding assets, screenshots, video, ratings, and comments. Android Market also aggregates the app’s download statistics, reviews, and billing data across all of the APKs.

Multiple APK support gives you a variety of ways to control app distribution. For example, you could use it to create separate APKs for phones and tablets under the same product listing. You could also use it to take advantage of new APIs or new hardware
capabilities without impacting your existing customer base.

To support this new capability, we’ve updated the Developer Console to include controls for uploading and managing APKs in a product listing
— we encourage you to take a look. If you’d like to learn more about how multiple APK support works, please read the developer
documentation. As always, please feel free to give us feedback on the feature through the Market
Help Center.

本帖是朱立伦，Android开发者生态系统。-Dirk多尔蒂]

在谷歌I / O我们宣布计划增加了一些新的功能，以帮助开发者在Android Market更有效地管理他们的产品。我们很高兴，让你知道最新的那些，多APK支持，现已推出。多APK支持在Android Market谁想要在分配额外的控制那些开发新的发布选项。

到现在为止，在Android Market每一个产品上市以来，包括一个单一的APK文件，一个普遍有效载荷可传递到所有符合条件的设备 - 跨所有平台的版本，屏幕尺寸和芯片组。单个APK广泛分布非常适用于几乎所有的应用，具有简化产品维护的优势。

随着多个APK的支持，您现在可以上传一个APK的多个版本的单品列表，以及每一个解决您的客户的不同子集。这些APK是共享同一个软件包名称完整的，独立的APK，但包含的代码和资源，针对不同的Andr​​oid平台版本，屏幕尺寸，或GL纹理压缩格式。当用户下载或购买你的应用程序，Android Market中选择合适的APK根据设备的特性来提供。

当你上传多个文件APK，Android Market的处理它们作为单一产品的列表，它集合了应用程序的详细信息，收视率，和整个的APK意见的一部分。谁浏览应用程序的详细信息页面的所有用户看到相同的产品，相同的说明，品牌资产，截图，视频，评分和评论。Android Market的同时在所有的APK的聚合应用程序的下载统计，评论和计费数据。

多APK支持为您提供了多种方式来控制应用程序分配。例如，你可以使用它在同一产品上市创造手机和平板电脑单独的APK。你也可以用它来利用新的API或新的硬件功能，而不影响现有的客户群。

为了支持这种新功能，我们更新了开发者控制台，包括上传，并在产品上市管理的APK控制-我们鼓励您去看一看。如果您想了解更多关于如何多APK支持的作品，请阅读开发者文档。与往常一样，请随时给我们通过该功能反馈市场帮助中心。