I want to send the application to the beta testing Google Play. My question is: how to do in the application so that at the end of testing people could update the app and enjoy working version. How to organize it will be in the API and in the application? Share your experiences, links or something else. thank you
There's nothing to do within the application or over some API. Right in the Developer console you're given the ability to promote your uploaded version to the Beta or Production stage. See the following screenshot:
So as soon as your app is ready for the masses, just push it to Prod and everyone will be able to download and/or update it.
Related
I developed an app and am currently testing it as open test (Beta).
The app is available when users have the link to the appstore which is in this format:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tld.domain.subdomain
tld.domain.subdomain is my package name.
My question simply is: Once I promoted my beta version to production release, will the link above stay the same as for the beta test?
I want to know this (without publishing it now) because I want to print some flyers with QR Codes to my App once it is released. Probably a stupid question but I am not able to test this myself right now because the app is not finished yet and I want to be sure to print the correct QR Codes.
Yes. Links to the Google Play store are basically their package names.
The way people enter Google Play Beta testing is if they join the Beta program on Google Play. The application/package name is the same, so the link to the app will be too.
••••• Solved •••••
The app is available. It just took some time to appear. The reason why I saw it as beta is because my Google account was used for alpha tests.
If you have the same problem, just delete your account from the testers and wait some hours.
•••••••••••••••••••••
My team and I are working on a mobile game. We tested it in alpha mode and decided to launch it today. From the alpha version, we asked Google to release the app in production mode. The console tells us the app is totally sent but we can't find it on our mobile stores and when I want to see the app on the web store, it shows me the app is in Beta release.
Can someone tell me why we get this ? We didn't ask to pass in beta mode.
Do we just need to wait a bit ?
I see your app on the Play Store. I searched for it and it shows up as https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=be.barracudapps.tradeontube. So it is published and others can find it. But do you know that your app targets Android 5.0 and up?
I posted a new beta version in google developer console, but device doesn't see new available beta version. It has been more than 3 days since I released. May be the reason that the application has been installed to the computer, not downloaded from google?
when you upload an Alpha Testing apk, it doesn't appear in google play as production app. What I've done is to create a community in google+ and then I associate that community to my app. Here I show you where you can do it:
and
If you dont want to create a community like me, you can also add the gmail of the "testers" that you want to test your alpha/beta app. Don't forget to add your own email ;).
Hope this help you.
I developed and publish some apps to google play using "old" interface. Now I published an app using new interface and seems that all were successful because my app appears as "published". However, previous apps were active in 1h, but now, after 2 days, I am unable to find it in google play and also unable to find any link on any option inside developer console. Is my app published? How could I then know google play link?
How could I then know google play link?
The links for Apps in the Playstore are always built with the same pattern, it looks like this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=YOUR.PACKAGE.NAME
so you can use that link to see if your App is published or not, just replace YOUR.PACKAGE.NAME with the actual name of the package like com.google.android.music
In the new interface you can publish three versions of the app: alpha, beta, release. Check if you published the release version.
So you'll get the link to the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=COM.PACKAGE.NAME
Check your publish area
Check your Android version
Check your Android device
I have released an Android application to about 5-10 people who are close friends of mine to test it out. I just sent them my .apk file. The problem is, when it crashes (happening often, as I'm early in development) I have no way to look at the logs. If I had released the application to Google Play, they would be able to press "Send Error Report" which I could then see in my Google Play developer account. Is there any easy way to get logs from these crashes in this sort of third party application development environment?
The only thing I can think of is to have them install aLogcat and just send me a log. But that's pretty cumbersome, obviously. Especially for a non tech user.
Use Application Crash Report for Android http://acra.ch/
Since the Google Docs legacy forms is completly discontinued http://www.bugsense.com/docs/android#acra seems to be a good option as backend.
You could publish it on the play store, and Unpublish it. This way you could use the same functionality, while no having unwanted people stumble upon it.
When you feel the app is ready, you could simply publish it again.
EDIT:
Note that Unpublish will not remove your app from the store, it will simply make it not visible, but with a URL you can still browse to the play store listing.
EDIT 2:
To view the Unpublished app, append your package id:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=<package_id>