Android - How To Publish An App To The Play Store

id="mod_43975521">About the Google Play Store Google Play, which was originally born and named as Android Market, is the Google's official store for Mod APK Android apps, Mobile Games and books for ios Android phones, tablets or Android TV devices. Just as Apple has its own App Store, Google has the Google Play Store. The Play Console is the web interface that allows you to upload signed APK's of your apps and publish them to the Play Store.

Keep reading to see how to do this process and have your apps live on the Google Play Store. Generate a Signed APK with Android Studio Android Studio is the perfect IDE to build Android apps, is powered by Google and it has a nice Design interface that helps you a lot on editing layout without editing the xml code. It also has built-in features to check and correct your Java code in case of errors on typing or importing libraries in your project. So, I assume you already have your project opened in Android Studio and you've carefully tested it on a real device before getting ready to publish it on the Play Store.

I'll be using a basic project I've created as an example for this tutorial, now let's create a Signed APK before getting into the Play Console and publish your app. 1. Click on Build -> Generate Signed APK. Open the Signed APK generator window 2. In the Generate Signed APK popup window, click Next 3. Since you haven't created a Key store path yet, click on Create new... 4. In the next popup window, click on the ••• button and select a folder where you want to store your .jks file.

Type a name for that file in the text field on the bottom and hit OK. 5. Now that your Key store path is set, you need to set a password for it, game review so type your desired password and confirm it in the text fields below the Key store path. 6. in the Key section, leave the Alias as it is (key0), and type a password for it as well - you may enter the same password you've set for ios the Key store path, or type another one.

Just remember your password in case of future updates. 7. Leave Validity (years) as it is - the default value if 25 years. 8. The other fields are optional unless the First and Last Name one, so you're free to fill all of them or just the one with your full name. 9 Finally, click OK. Generate Key store path popup window 10. You'll be redirected to the first popup window where you can check your Key store details.

If everything is fine for you, apk hack check the Remember passwords button and hit Next. Check if your Key store data are ok 11. The next popup you'll get is the last one. By default, Android Studio sets the APK Destination Folder as the app folder inside your project fodler. You're free to change it if you want to do so by clicking on the ••• button on the right side, otherwise just leave it as it is. 12. Leave Build Type as is it - release - since what you're creating is a Singed APK to be uploaded to the Play Store.

13. Ignore the Flavors box, it's not needed at all. 14. Select V1 (Jar Signature) in the Signature Versions section 15. Click Finish to let Android Studio generate the Signed APK of your app. Last step to generate a Singed APK It may take up to 1-2 minutes to Android Studio to build your APK, you may check its process on the bottom of the Android Studio's window, you'll see a blue progress bar next to a rotating wheel and the Gradle Build Running statement.

Once the process will be done, a small popup will show up in the bottom-right corner of your window with a link to your generated APK. The name of your APK will be app-release.apk. You're free to rename it as you wish, just be careful in case you're using a Mac because you may accidentally rename your file without leaving the extension's name - .