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I have a Google group with specific beta testers. My app (released as beta on the developer console in Google Play) queries content from my server. Now I see that other users than from the Google group are querying the server. It's a functionality that is not available on older versions on my app.

How can that be?

infero
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  • Maybe some member leaked the APK? For next versions you could track the user by collecting some data of its device. – Joaquin Iurchuk Mar 06 '15 at 15:35
  • Is your Google+ Community for beta testers private? Do you see anyone in that group who are not invited? – Devrim Mar 06 '15 at 15:41
  • @joaquin: I already do track the identity; that's why I found out that there are registrations not in my beta group – infero Mar 06 '15 at 15:50
  • @DevrimTuncer: I have no Google+ community. It's a Google group where I manage the members – infero Mar 06 '15 at 15:51
  • It sounds to me like someone's managed to extract the APK and leaked it – Boardy Mar 06 '15 at 15:55
  • @joaquin, Boardy: Tow different users? I don't think so. – infero Mar 06 '15 at 15:56
  • So you found a Google bug? – Joaquin Iurchuk Mar 06 '15 at 15:57
  • @joaquin: Maybe. The strange thing is, that the registration was made not even 10 minutes after I uploaded the apk to Google Play. I didn't inform my beta testers about the test release in this time. I don't see how they could have found out and manage to leak the apk in this under 10 minutes time span. – infero Mar 06 '15 at 16:10

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I have worked with several apps in beta testing, never had this problem,

  • Check if the list of users defined in your Group of testers is correct (Manage list of Testers)

  • Your app must be published in "Beta Testing", with the option "Promote to Prod" pending. enter image description here

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    Thanks Elenasys, I did that as the first task and double checked it too, after I realized those strange registrations on my server – infero Mar 06 '15 at 16:47