Play Store publish keeps failing with Code 403 - APK specifies a version code that has already been used

[ajeetschouhan]

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Which mobile framework are you using?

Flutter (Dart)

Steps to reproduce

Update version in pubspec.yaml
Build & Publish iOS and Android in codemagic
iOS builds successfully and uploads to app store
Android build successfully but play store upload fails with Code 403 - APK specifies a version code that has already been used
Somehow pubspec.yaml version is not getting reflected in android build. It always builds with same version.

Expected results

Android build should be successful and should get uploaded to play store.

Actual results

Android build is not getting published to play store. Fails with error Code 403 - APK specifies a version code that has already been used

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[rafeysup93]

Hi @ajeetschouhan,

This error message usually shows if permissions aren't correctly set up with the service account user. Please refer to this document to see if this helps and let us know.

Otherwise, you didn't increment the APK version that is being fetched from the play store. Please refer to this document for that information.

[ajeetschouhan]

Hi @rafeysup93

It seems the local.properties is incorrectly getting generated for android. When I tried to run a build with hard coded versions, it worked.

This code doesn't work.

def flutterVersionCode = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionCode')
if (flutterVersionCode == null) {
    flutterVersionCode = '1'
}

def flutterVersionName = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionName')
if (flutterVersionName == null) {
    flutterVersionName = '1.0'
}

defaultConfig {
    // TODO: Specify your own unique Application ID (https://developer.android.com/studio/build/application-id.html).
    applicationId "co.goodiebag.app"
    // You can update the following values to match your application needs.
    // For more information, see: https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#reviewing-the-gradle-build-configuration.
    minSdkVersion 24
    targetSdkVersion flutter.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
    versionName flutterVersionName
}

But if I hard code the version in defaultConfig, it works

defaultConfig {
    // TODO: Specify your own unique Application ID (https://developer.android.com/studio/build/application-id.html).
    applicationId "co.goodiebag.app"
    // You can update the following values to match your application needs.
    // For more information, see: https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#reviewing-the-gradle-build-configuration.
    minSdkVersion 24
    targetSdkVersion flutter.targetSdkVersion
    versionCode 123
    versionName "1.2.3"
}

That tells me the version.properties is not getting properly generated. Because ios build is working just fine with correct version so that is picking it correctly from pubspec.yaml. Something is not right for Android only.

[rafeysup93]

It could happen if you don't pass build arguments the way mentioned in this document.

[ajeetschouhan]

Thanks @rafeysup93
But as per the doc, if the build version is manually incremented in pubspec.yaml, these arguments do not need to be passed to the build command. and I am manually incrementing the version in pubspec.yaml before every build. The iOS build seems to be picking up the pubspec version correctly but the Android build somehow is not able to pick the version from pubspec file.

[rafeysup93]

Please share the code with me that you are using to manually increment your build.

[rafeysup93]

@ajeetschouhan If you hard code (manually increment) the version in pubspec.yaml then you don't have to pass those arguments.

[kulakarla]

@ajeetschouhan Hi, with what command are you building the APK? Could you share the script please.

After changing the version manually from pubspec.yaml, you need to run flutter build commands in order for the android/local.properties file get updated values.

I suspect you may be running ./gradlew tasks, which do not update the local.properties file. I suggest you build your APK with flutter build apk.

[rafeysup93]

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