Deployment of App on play store

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Last updated: Nov 12, 2020 by Ashok Kumar (Unlicensed)
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Overview

In this document we are going to learn how to upload apk to playstore and available to the end user to download and use from playstore.

Pre-requisites

Before starting the process of upload the apk to play store. you must need following requirements.

  • Make sure that signed apk(signed apk has key generated, which is used to release different versions of the apk ) is generated for the application that you want to upload to playstore.

  •  Make sure that you have account for google play console by agreeing terms and condition , also payment shd have been done for the accounnt and is ready for uploading a apk to play store.

  • two screenshots of your app and they must be at least 320 pixels wide and be in a PNG or JPEG format.

  • You must also add your high resolution app icon. It must be 512 by 512 pixels and it must be in 32-bit PNG format.This icon will be visible on the Google Play app’s page and in search results.

  • Next, a Feature Graphic image, which will be visible at the top of the Google Play app’s page.This image must be 1024 by 500 pixels, and may be in JPEG or 24-bit PNG format.

  • Also prepare a small description about app in four to five lines.

Key Functionalities

The use of depolying the apk to the playstore is to enable user to download the apk from play store and use whenever they needed. By uploading the apk to playstore our app will be available to all user around the world just at fingure tips of the end user.

Deployment Details

Now, we are going learn step by step procedure of uploading apk to play store.

  1. Open google play console by entering the url (https://play.google.com/apps/publish/) and login with the user credentials.

  2. After login in the following screen can be seen.

 

3.Now on the top-right click on create Application button and you get a popup to enter the title of the apk. Refer the screenshot below and click on create

 

4.After clicking the create you will be redirect to page where we need to enter the product details, graphics assets, Categorization ..etc.

i) Under product details section enter the description that we have prepared in the beginning.

ii). Under assets section we need to attach at-least two screenshot of the application, high resolution thumb nail icon and Feature Graphic image

iii) Under Categorization, select the application type, category

iv) Coming to the contact section, add website URL, email and also phone number if you wish to add one.

v) After next comes the privacy policy section where you can enter the link of the privacy and policy page and save it as a draft.

5. After saving as draft on the “right side menu” select the option “App Release”. In the app release page under the “production Track” click on the manage, then click on create a release in the next screen. Then in the next page under the “ App signing by google play” click the continue.

 

6. In the next page, under android app bundles and APK to add section add your APK generated also enter the release name and add the description inside the <en-US> tag related to that APK and save the enter data

 

7. Now in the right side menu to the “content rating” and click on continue button which will redirect to “Welcome to the Content Rating Rating Questionnaire page”, where we need to enter the email id and also select your app category in provided categories and fill all the Questionnaire in the form that comes after selecting the app category and click on the “save Questionnaire”, you will receive an email after clicking on the “save Questionnaire”.

 

8. After that click on the “calculate Rating” then in the click “apply Rating Button”.

9. Next will be the “Pricing and Distribution” in the “Right side Menu”. In this page we have option to select the cost of APK to download or free, also select the countries app need to be available and also answer the questionnaires that are asked and click on the save Drafts.

 

10. Finally again go the “App Release” in the right side menu and click on the “ Edit Release” button in the Production Track section and save the details and at the end click “Start role out to production” and click confirm.

11. The following screen say your process is ended.

 

12. That is all how to upload APK to the play store. You can check the status of the application in the right side menu under the “ All Application”. It takes some hours to appear in the play store. Wait for the APK to appear in the play store. Also we have Dashboard to check the details of APK.