Android APK File: Re-Activate Older APK File in Google Play Store

Android APK file: Re-activate older APK file in Google Play Store

You will not be able to change the APK file without having the signing certificate.

You should be able to revert to an older version, assuming you didn't change the level of API support.

Publish an older version: Google Play Console

This was already answered here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/29549730

It's not possible. You'll have to rebuild the older state and upload again under a new version number.

Is it possible to download an old APK for my app from Google Play?

THE ANSWER IS OUTDATED. NOW THIS IS POSSIBLE, CHECK @tesla's AND @olleh's ANSWERS.

FOR THE NEW 2020 GOOGLE PLAY CONSOLE, SEE ANSWER FROM @IonicBurger

No, unfortunately.

The Android Developer Console is a real disaster, everywhere you look there is something that needs to be fixed or improved, being this issue you mention one of them. Unfortunately for the time being you're out of luck. Unless Google enables this, you cannot download old APKS's. I suppose you could recompile the old code, but I guess you don't have that either and that's why you are here :-)

Google Play Console - How remove an update of published application

In previous versions of Google Developer Console this could be possible unpublising the last .apk and enable to production your desired version

but now it can´t be possible.

Note that rollbacks aren’t supported due to the app versioning requirements of the Android platform. If you need to rollback, consider launching a previous APK with a new version number. However, this practice should be used only as a last resort, as users will lose access to new features and your old app may not be forward-compatible with your server changes or data formats, so be sure to run alpha and beta tests of your updates.

You can see the previous releases but you can´t enable again:

You need to create and publish a new release with a consecutive versionCode.

Update the APK file on play store

It takes some time to actually get to play market. Couple hours maybe.

You can see your old APK in advanced mode.

Google Play - unable to deactivate older APK with lower API support

The problem is due to staged rollout. After full release (100% rollout), I'm able to deactivate the older build now.

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