I'm going to publish an App on the Google Play Store.
I know that the validation can take up to 48h more or less.
I would like to know if there is a way to submit the App for validation, and then when it's validated, tu publish it by my self, clicking on a button "PUBLISH" or something.
Apple propound two ways of publishing process:
- Automatic: just right after the validation, the App is automatically published.
- Manual: after the validation process, we get a notification saying that the App is ready to publish. By clicking on a button whenever I want and publish the App.
Is there a "Manual" way on Android ?
Thanks in advance !
You can use 'delayed publication' mode in your Play console - look for dropdown in upper right screen corner.
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When I login in my console account, my app's Status show draft but when I click on it shows ready to publish.
When you have not completed the entire publishing process for your app and have left it over incomplete at that time, your app is shown under the Draft section.
Now, for hte status 'Ready to publish'...States that the APK that was built was successful and it has no issues with the Package names, Contents, Size of the app, etc. and is ready to be Published after Reviewing the app once.
Go inside of your Release Management section of your app and complete all the pending steps! Click on the Publish button or else check if something is missing then in the steps.
Click on your app, then just go at the Release Management tab inside the menu.
then click on Publish for Production in your app. Because currently, your app is in the draft.
I've written to Google Play's support about this issue. At first the flatly denied it, but after I submitted screenshots, database logs, etc... they said they were "looking into it."
Basically every time I submit my app to Google Play... the word "Text" is inserted into almost every EditText field. This includes, Comments, Editable profile fields, etc...
According to the screenshots this appears to be caused by Google Play's automated testing. I've verified that the IP address of the poster does indeed belong to Google.
I've never seen anything like this in over 30 years of programming and I'm at a bit of a loss for what to do... It happens ONLY when I submit an app update to Google Play.
There's really nowhere else I could think of to ask. Has anyone ever SEEN anything like this? How can I prevent this from happening?
When you upload your app, it goes through the Pre-Launch Testing, where it will use test devices to automatically click/type/use your app and try to find bugs and see whether it will crash anywhere.
If you don't want this:
Go to your app in the Google Play Console
Click Release Management on the left
Click Pre-Launch Report
Click the settings tab
Disable it
I'm trying to publish my ionic2 app on Google play.But still, I cannot do that.It doesn't show any errors.Can you tell me how to do this?
When I press the "Ready to Publish" button then it shows below screen.
The accepted answer is now outdated.
On left side menu select 'Publishing overview'.
Click on 'Review and publish'.
Approve publish.
By the way, this is happening because you've turned on 'Managed publishing status'.
I recommend leaving it on, as it lets control when your app will actually be published after Google's review.
Op's feedback:
Press Mange Releases Button -- > Then go to the bottom of the page --> Click Review Button.After that Publish button will be shown.
Original Answer:
It's similar to App store, Your application need to be accepted by tester for review and install on different device.
"Ready to publish" does not mean you can publish it globally unless you define internal or external (Alpha/Beta)tester, and those how choose to install your app need to review your app.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/3131213?hl=en
Good Luck
I have several problems with google play apps testing.
I have a beta user group with 100 users.
In the process given from google, I must add all users to a group, and then, when user receive a mail, he click a blue button "Become a tester"
I have 2 problems in this step.
I don't have a way to know who clicked this button and who didn't click, so I really don't have control of who has the correct version
After clicking blue button, when user has 2 google accounts, it fails, even if the user choose the correct email. I was able to pass this step by deleting an account, download app, and re-add the account. It seems like a bug to me.
So basically, I have a lot of trouble with all this process.
Is there any way to get it work better, or should I just buy an external service?
1. I don't have a way to know who clicked this button and who didn't click, so I really don't have control of who has the correct version
Well it is true that you don't get a "notification" per say saying that the user clicked the blue button. But you can always look up the developer console to see who has downloaded the app based on versions, devices etc etc.
2. After clicking blue button, when user has 2 google accounts, it fails, even if the user choose the correct email. I was able to pass this step by deleting an account, download app, and re-add the account. It seems like a bug to me. So basically, I have a lot of trouble with all this process.
I never experienced that when i was added to a beta testing group. I actually had 3 accounts on my phone at that time and was still able to install the beta app without any issues.
EDIT:
Link to the play store stats & reports doc:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/139628?hl=en
Hi i am trying to upload my Android app in the private channel of the Google Play store, this will be first app for our organization. We didn't upload any apps yet but we are trying to upload our first app in private Channel. I didn't find how to get start with Google play private channel. I go through this distribute android apps in your organization but am a bit confuse about what the first step is. Can anybody tell me how to get started?
My first step is through this screen. So where is "Click More controls > Other Google Services, click filter to open the filter pane, and deselect the Show top featured services checkbox"..
Maybe it's too late, but I just did it for the first time now, and I can guide you :)
I aggree with you : Google support is a bit confusing.
First of all, from the main dashboard, go to Apps, then Additional Google services. Then, at the top right of the screen, click the second button (a kind of filter icon), between "+" and "?", and uncheck in the left panel that appears "Show top featured services".
Then, on the same screen, scroll and make sure Google Play Developer Console and Google Play for work are activated.
Once done, go back to the main dashboard, and then go to Device Management. On the next screen click Mobile on the left panel.
There, click Device management settings and check Allow users to access Google Play Private Channel if you want your users are just able to download app, or the second checkbox (update Goole Play Private Channel) if you want they can upload custom apps too.
You can set this property for your whole domain, or for each "organizationnal unit", as Google says.
Then, you have to create an Android dev account with one of your Google Apps account. I mean : if you had a personnal dev account (with a gmail address, or anything else, you won't be able to be a dev in your organization), so beware !
The publication process will be the same, except one thing : in the "pricing/availability" menu in the Dev console, you will have to check a tiny checkbox just after the amazing list of countries, to warn Google you want this app to be just visible for users of your GApp domain.
An other pretty cool feature that may be relevant in this usecase is Android For Work, coupled with Google Play For Work. I can help you too about it, but it's another subject :)
Google has provided step by step instructions of doing this. We can create users in the private domain and assign different privileges to the users, based on which, they can just download the app or upload apps to the private channel. The following link gives detailed information on this.
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https://support.google.com/a/answer/2494992?hl=en