Apps Replacing app with a new coded version?

[samsong89]

Hey all,

Quick question please:

My company invested heavily into a mobile app and outsourced dev work and it hasn't offered much ROI. We have since taken operations in house and developed a completely new app.

Can we push this as an OTA update? We don't want to lose current download,users and reviews?

Thanks in advanced.

 

[GeorgeN]

Yes so long as you have the key the original app was signed with.

 

[deprogram]

And access to the Play store account it was published with. Obviously the class name for the package will have to match, and the version number be incremented.

 

[HannanLeO]

Play Store identifies an application on its unique package name i.e com.example.android. Therefore, if the package name of your new application is same as previous one so you can upload a new version with greater version code from previous app and you have to sign the new application with that SHA-1 fingerprint, with you signed your previous app.