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Update Your Web-Based Apps in Amazon Developer Console

Amazon Appstore has discontinued the Creator Service and the web-based app submission process. If you used both services to create apps for Fire TV and tablets, you can update your apps to a new version in Amazon Developer Console.

All apps have been converted to Android apps on Amazon Developer Console. You can update your apps by submitting a new Android package app, with the same package name and a higher version number.

To update your apps

  1. Log in to the Amazon Developer Console using your Amazon developer credentials.
  2. Open the App List page, and find the app you want to update.
  3. In the Current Version section, click the Upload your app file .
  4. Click the Manifest icon to display the Manifest Details prompt. You see your app's current package name and version number.
  5. In your project's config.xml file, set the version and android-versionCode attributes in the <widget> element to a new version number and version code that are higher than the current version.

The following code block is an example from the config.xml file, which indicates that a submitted app had version number 2.0.3 and version code 124.

<widget id="com.example.webapp" version="2.0.3" android-versionCode = "124"
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">

From the example, change the version number from 2.0.3 to to 2.0.4 and version code from 124 to 125, indicating a minor version upgrade.

  1. Test your app. Follow the instructions in Test your app with App Tester and Live App Testing for IAP.

  2. (Optional) Generate a release variant of your app. Follow the instructions in Cordova build command.

  3. Submit your updated app. Follow the instructions in Submitting Apps to the Amazon Appstore.

  4. Check your app submission.

To check if you successfully submitted your app, log in to Amazon Developer Console. Find your app under My Apps tab, and make sure it has a newer version number and code.

Last updated: Oct 30, 2024