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I use K-9 Mail (aka Thunderbird Mobile) on my phone, installed via #FDroid. Last week, K-9 showed up in the list of pending updates in the Google Play Store, despite it not having installed that apk, and not being able to update it (and it wants to install the same version as is already installed). I can't clear it from the "pending updates" list. Unfortunately this seems to be a new #Android Play Store bug (see forum.f-droid.org/t/google-pla…). Reported to Google.

@IzzyOnDroid have you had any experience with this bug?

in reply to Ozzie D, NP-hard

Developers usually ship the AAB to PlayStore for deployment. Someone found the `versionCode` used in AABs was (by some default?) set higher than that with the APKs. As `versionCode` is what Android uses to tell versions apart, PlayStore thinks its version is newer. The stupid thing is trying to update something where the signature won't match – regardless of newer or not. Not sure if that's the case here, though.