Gradle Play Publisher Plugin

Daniel Kao <daniel.kao@gmail.com>

Android developer (but writing server codes now…

Self developed apps

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Agenda

Manually uploading apk and updating store listing is Tedious Error-prone Difficult to control versions of store listing data

With the plugin, you can Do it with one command Use any VCS to keep track of your data Integrate it into your deploy server

Why

A Gradle plugin to upload your APK and app details to the Google Play Store.

What is it?

URL: https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/#publishing

Features Upload new versions of an app Release apps to (alpha, beta, staged rollout,

production) Create/modify Store listings

Available languages Java, Python, REST APIs

Google Publishing API

Create Google Service Account Setup plugin in build.gradle

How

Go to the API Access page on the Google Play Developer Console.

Create Google Service Account

API Manager

New Credentials

Create service account key

Create new service or use a new one Choose either key type Save the downloaded file for later use

Grant Access

Create Google Service Account

Accept it

New Credentials (cont’d)

Check necessary permissions

Grant Permissions

Add dependency

Apply the plugin

Setup build.gradle

Configure play section

Setup build.gradle (cont’d)

Extra settings

Setup build.gradle (cont’d)

Setting DescriptionerrorOnSizeLimit = false

Do not check text length limit

track = 'production' Or ‘beta, ‘alpha’, ‘rollout’userFraction = 0.2 Only works for ‘rollout’ track. It means the

portion of users who should get the staged rollout version of the APK.

uploadImages = true Default is false

Task Name Description

bootstrapReleasePlayResources

Fetches all existing data from the Play Store to bootstrap the required files and folders.

publishApkRelease Uploads the APK and the summary of recent changes.

publishListingRelease Uploads the descriptions and images for the Play Store listing.

publishRelease Uploads everything.

What’s been offered.

Directory Tree

Directory Tree II

Need to upload first release through web so that it knows the package id

Tips

Demo

Publishing API https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/#publishing Client library samples from Google https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/libraries

Gradle Play Publisher Plugin Github https://github.com/Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher

Reference