Android app can not be installed from the play store because of Google Play Services 8.3.0

Question

Recently I got some reports that one of our apps can not be installed from the Play Store. The error message is:

"App name" can't be installed. Try again, and if the problem continues, get help troubleshooting(Error code: -505)

The app was perfectly fine before the latest release and never faced similar problems with it.

Does this ring any bell to anyone?

EDIT :

This whole thing seems to be related to the new Google Play Services v8.3.0

Answer 1

So after some debugging, I found the problem which is the latest version of the Google Play Services, version 8.3.0

I downgraded Play Services to the latest stable release I had in the app ( GPS 8.1.0 ) and sent out the new builds to users having the installation issues and they were able to instal the app successfully.

This seems to affect a few apps like Mixcloud too, but it could also mess up Beta , Fabric's app helping you distribute your app.

So for now, probably you should hold on with updating Google Play Services to 8.3.0 until they fix this.(?)

Here is a discussion with the Fabric team about the same thing.

EDIT:

Fabric fixed this bug in the version 1.5.1 of their Beta app.

Answer 2

Adding this line to the app build.gradle solves this issue:

  defaultConfig {

applicationId "[app package]"
...

}