Does HP plan on a HP Prime refresh?

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(05-02-2024 10:39 PM)StephenG1CMZ Wrote:  I wonder why the website finds it, but the dedicated play store button doesn't?

Visibility of the app inside the Google Play Store itself will be hit-and-miss due to rules that Google has imposed over time to filter which results will show up.

1. Is your phone's current API level greater than or equal to the app's reported minimum supported API level? (API level roughly corresponds to major Android version, but historically there have been some cases where multiple API levels were introduced in minor versions over the life of a single major version.) If your phone's API level is less than the app's minimum, then the app will be labelled as incompatible.

2. Is the app's targeted API level (i.e. the single version of Android for which the app was optimized to provide the best experience) new enough? If your phone's actual API level is more than 2 major versions newer than the app's targeted API level, then the app will be labelled as obsolete and/or insecure.

3. Does the app contain a dependency on CPU-specific native code for a CPU sub-architecture for which your current CPU either physically cannot run, or alternately for which the necessary runtime libraries are not available? (e.g. If it relies on x86 native code, then an Arm-based phone won't able to use it. Or, historically, 64-bit Android used to include both 32-bit and 64-bit runtime libraries so that you could run apps with native code for either sub-architecture; however more recently 64-bit Android only includes 64-bit runtime libraries thus cannot run apps which strictly rely upon 32-bit native code. Apps which are distributed as pure Dalvik bytecode are not subject to this limitation.)

4. Has the app ever historically been installed on the current device? And/or, has the currently logged-in Google user account ever historically owned the app on a different device? If yes, then it ought to be listed in the Play store, but it might nevertheless be marked as incompatible. If not, then apps which have been identified as incompatible or obsolete shouldn't be visible in the Play Store at all.