CC no longer shows up in Amazon Appstore

[mobamoba]

My Nexus 6P updated itself to Android 7 yesterday and now CC has vanished from the Amazon Appstore (where I purchased it rather than buying on Google Play (a mistake I won't make again because Amazon Appstore sucks)). CC opens, throws an Amazon Appstore error, then immediately closes.

I did a chat with Amazon but figured I'd post here in case there's some faster solution than dealing with Amazon. Thanks.

[AnemicOak]

Sounds like there is a problem with Nougat and Amazon's verification (on apps that use verification)...

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/custo...x3UP1VW7GMAT3L

[mobamoba]

Amazon didn't seem to think the problem was at their end (not that that means anything really). I thought it could be a versioning thing like CC hadn't been updated to indicate it was compatible with Nougat because it doesn't even show up in an Appstore search anymore.

[AnemicOak]

Originally Posted by mobamoba

I thought it could be a versioning thing like CC hadn't been updated to indicate it was compatible with Nougat because it doesn't even show up in an Appstore search anymore.

Could be. The link I posted above was the only reference I could find in reference to an error like you had posted, but I have no idea if it's the actual problem (or if there is more than one problem).

[chaley]

Originally Posted by mobamoba

Amazon didn't seem to think the problem was at their end (not that that means anything really). I thought it could be a versioning thing like CC hadn't been updated to indicate it was compatible with Nougat because it doesn't even show up in an Appstore search anymore.

When releasing an Amazon version of CC, the only question asked is what is the minimum supported version of Android. There is nothing about a maximum. I could make a new release just for grins, but there isn't anything for me to change that might fix this.

My guess: this is the result of a pissing contest between Amazon and Google about app sources and security. There are lots of sites mentioning the Nougat "knows" where the app came from. How this interacts with the Amazon App Store is the $64,000 question.

[crane3]

Is there any difference between the Amazon & Google versions? I have the Google version on my Fire HDX.

I hope that CC is "generic" enough that when Chrome OS 53 arrives (maybe in late Sept), CC will just install & be usable like a "normal" android app unless the Chromebook has a unique write to disk (sd card) stopper.

[chaley]

Originally Posted by crane3

Is there any difference between the Amazon & Google versions? I have the Google version on my Fire HDX.

The two versions are almost identical. The differences are:

• How CC's license is checked
• The default priority for book formats
• Some hyperlinks.

I hope that CC is "generic" enough that when Chrome OS 53 arrives (maybe in late Sept), CC will just install & be usable like a "normal" android app unless the Chromebook has a unique write to disk (sd card) stopper.

I have no idea what will happen. CC doesn't do anything particularly special, but that doesn't mean much.

[chaley]

FWIW: I just tested CC on the official Google Android Studio version of Nougat and it runs fine.

[stumped]

is this a case of the app store ( on a device) only shows what it thinks is good-to-go on that device.
e.g. if I look for mantano/ bookari reader at amazon via PC its there in the store, but if I look at the same store via my Fire tablet there is no such app.

so from this PC - amazon(uk) - apps, there's the CC full version and demo version; and from my fire tablet ( Os 5 , sort of an android 5) -> apps ->store...I see both apps still, also.

but maybe if I had a new android 7 tablet and checked the amazon app store from that, then I'd not see it?

[chaley]

Originally Posted by stumped

is this a case of the app store ( on a device) only shows what it thinks is good-to-go on that device.
e.g. if I look for mantano/ bookari reader at amazon via PC its there in the store, but if I look at the same store via my Fire tablet there is no such app.

so from this PC - amazon(uk) - apps, there's the CC full version and demo version; and from my fire tablet ( Os 5 , sort of an android 5) -> apps ->store...I see both apps still, also.

but maybe if I had a new android 7 tablet and checked the amazon app store from that, then I'd not see it?

It could be something like this. If Amazon hasn't yet taken the new Android release into account then (as you say) it might not yet know what to do when it sees that release. In this case one must wait until Amazon does whatever magic is necessary, possible an AppStore app update. This scenario is plausible given that Google seemed to have surprised the world with the production release of Nougat this week.