Deployment — Play Store (Part 3)

3 min readNov 17, 2021

Congratulation 🎊 🎉 Let us first celebrate that our application is running correctly 100% and we tested all the features and all is set well.

Now let share our android app in Play store with all the world.

1 — Create Google Account

You should have an account in Google play console, it’s quickly done in some steps and it’s related to your gmail account.

And here’s some tasks to prepare that you will need it during the deployment :

Email account
Phone number
Link to the application website
Short description for the app
Full description for the app
Logo (jpeg or png file with transparent background, 512px by 512px and up to 1MB)
Presentation image (jpeg or png file 1024px by 500px and up to 1 MB)
URL of video explain the app
From 2 to 8 screenshots (png or jpeg, 16: 9 or 9:16 format and up to 8 MB)
URL for privacy rules.

2 — Deployment File

Now let’s start putting everything in the right place .. Click in create application => “créer une application”.

Here you will fill with :

the name of your app.
Application category.
Free / not free

Finally validate.

Now in each point you fill with the information that you have in your mobile application -> Save then Exit to pass to the next point.

(PS: You have to finish it all and if you have a sign In so you have to provide google with a correct mail and password for the test).

3 — Generate signed bundle

To push a release in Google play console you have to generate a .aab file :

With android studio :

Build -> Generate signed bundle/APK -> Android App Bundle ( to generate a private key for google) -> fill all the steps -> finish

The file .aab file will be created in :

android/app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app.aab

4 — Create new release

Let’s go back to Google Play Console, you can put your release in the Testing part so you can control who test your app, but in my case I directly put it into the production, and you can also control the countries/regions that can download your app.