How to make my application visible for all devices?

Question

I have an android application, now on android market.But this application is not visible for some devices,especially for some tabs. While running this application directly from system (not installing from market) works fine.

Here is the manifest file

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        package="xxxxx"
        android:installLocation="internalOnly"
        android:versionCode="1"
        android:versionName="1.0" >
        <uses-sdk
            android:minSdkVersion="8"
            android:targetSdkVersion="9" />
        <uses-feature
            android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
            android:required="true" />
        <uses-feature
            android:name="android.hardware.location"
            android:required="true" />
        <supports-screens
            android:anyDensity="true"
            android:largeScreens="true"
            android:normalScreens="true"
            android:smallScreens="true"
            android:xlargeScreens="true" />

        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.PROCESS_OUTGOING_CALLS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.MODIFY_PHONE_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_WIFI_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.SET_WALLPAPER" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_TASKS" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.KILL_BACKGROUND_PROCESSES" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RESTART_PACKAGES" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.EXPAND_STATUS_BAR" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED" />
        <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INSTALL_PACKAGES" />

        <application
            <activity----
            </activity>

            <service------
            </service>

            <receiver ------
            </receiver>
        </application>

</manifest>

If I change required="false", what will happen?Does the code will crash?

Also,I have a Chinese tablet Crane_KA013,which have 'Phone' application but it does not listed 'telephony' feature while using PackageManager.getSystemAvailableFeatures().While running my application on this tablet(not installing from market),works fine and application is not visible for this device in market.

Why does this happen? How can i solve this?

Thanks in Advance

If you remove the required feature, then you have to gracefully handle your code too. i.e. before using this feature, you would have to check if it's available. Then changes are good it will work. If you don't handle it gracefully, it may crash on devices who don't have that feature — Tseng, Jan 23 '14 at 04:16

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 23 '14 at 04:22

It looks as if you are requiring features that some devices may not have available to them. For example:

   <uses-feature
            android:name="android.hardware.telephony"
            android:required="true" />

Here, you are telling the system that telephony is required, however, some tablets do not support this feature.

Here is a link to the Google API Guide that discusses this: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-feature-element.html

How to make my application visible for all devices?

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