Before I post my app on Google Play, I would like some friends test it to me, so if there's anything to change, I could do it BEFORE post it. How can I do that? My colleagues told me I should use a link from apk.
Remember: I don't want to use a cellphone as an emulator. I want people from other countries to test it for me (it's a multilingual app)
There are three ways to upload your apk on Google play store.
Upload your apk in Alpha testing, where you can create a link for your apk and can manually share this link to the people you want.
Upload your apk in Beta testing, Here your apk will be uploaded on play store for testing, where everyone can see your application and test it. Here anyone can provide feedback.
Upload your apk in Production, Here you finally upload your apk.
This is a short description if you want to know more, follow this link
Difference between alpha and beta testing
In your case, I think you should upload your apk in beta testing.
One way to share your app is to upload it in a cloud. Any cloud as long as your friends can access it. Send the link to them or you attach the apk on an e-mail and send it to them.
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i made app and build it as an apk file in flutter and i tried to install it in my android phone but while installing it, play store said: the app is unkhown do you wanna install,
and then i installed the app and app was working well, the question is how i can solve it, Do i have to buy a play store account? or there is another way to solve it.
If you intend to make the app available to play store users then you need to create a play store account. Normally the warning that you received if from Android OS telling the user that the app can't not be trusted, since it does not come from the play store but yourself built it. You can ignore this "warning" for now.
The warning will not be shown to the users when the app is built, signed and uploaded to play store.
You should refer to the official documentation to know how to sign and publish your binary file to the Play Store.
You'll need 25$ to create the Play Store developer account (available for your entire lifetime) and a bit of reading from the official documentation
I developed a new version of one app of mine, and then I uploaded it to Google Drive to share link with my phone and some beta testers.
Then, when I downloaded the APK, an error was shown claiming that app is infected by a virus!
After that I uploaded APK to VirusTotal online service to have it checked: result was that just "Ikarus" engine found a "Trojan.AndroidOS.Agent", while all other services were Ok.
How should I proceed? I don't want to risk that Google Play Console refuses the APK
Thank you,
Max
At last I took the risk to upload the APK to Play Store and ... no problem, no notice of any kind.
Maybe Google Drive now forbids APK upload, like GMail.
I have got an Nativescript application CircleCI job which basically generates APK file. I want to upload this APK to Google Play store test track. I have seen Google Publishing API which can help here. I also saw Fastlane but I guess it is supported only on iOS devices. Can someone please guide me to good sample where the APK generated are actually published to play store.
I tried searching this on net but couldn’t find helpful blogs which shows end to end deployment of APK's to Google Play store including the authentication and upload. If you are aware about it then please let me know.
When you have the apk ready for Play Store release, you can use https://github.com/rakeshgirase/app-release-manager which would help release the apk to the Google Play Store on the specified track.
Is there any way to Set up my application for beta testing without sending it to production?
I set up the app on the Dev console,it's the first version, and want to test it with a few individuals. I picked Alpha testing, uploaded the APK and supplied their gmail accounts but still haven't received the emails, which were 10+ hours ago.
Just in case somebody comes across this. You cannot put an APK up for Testers until you 'Publish' the app. This means putting in all the screenshots, doing the ratings... etc. It should be noted it doesn't put the App on the store.
Have any of your testers tried the opt-in URL? Should be something like https://play.google.com/apps/testing/{package-name}.
A teammate put the APK in the wrong account in Google Play, now, I need to fix without the original binary. So, I want to know if I can download the APK out of the wrong account, then signon with the correct account and upload?
FWIW - the APK is not yet published, it is still a draft as we need to put the remaining required collateral from Marketing team.
remove APK from wrong account draft.
create APK with correct account signature and upload there.
No, you cannot download the API from the dashboard. Probably would be some sort of a security violation if it were allowed.
This sounds like a re-marketing ploy (app rustling). It takes an app from one account and replaces the branding (names, images, etc) with that of another account.
If your devs do not archive their published works, then they are silly persons. What do they use for a code repository? A sock?
Google only stores the latest version of an app apk. Previous app versions are tracked, but the previous apks are not archived (as far as puny humans are concerned).
Only the latest published apk can be downloaded, and only as a customer.
There is no Wayback Machine for android apps, afaik.