How to release android update version of app for regular and pre-installed app

Question

Recently I released updated version of my app, that works good. My first version is also a pre-installed app, during update version I released updated version but now my problem is on pre-installed app having traking id for Google Analytics when I released new version the pre-installed version got override. Is there a way to release update version for pre-installed app and I need to know how to get back the trackID.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Let's say your pre-release app has versionCode=1 . The first version of deployed on Google Play app was also 1 . But as you've said, you already have 2 updates on it and google play forced you to increment version number, let's say to 3.

In conclusion, if user has pre installed app - his version code will be 1. If he updated from market - most probably he will have latest version number -3. Or at least two.

The point is that you can be pretty sure that at that moment of time, when you already published two updates, users, who have version=1 are users with preisntalled app, while users with version>1 are users with app from market.

Considering this, you can use the app version number from GA to differentiate these users.

Does that make sense?