This document discusses the Gradle Play Publisher Plugin, which allows uploading an Android app and its details to the Google Play Store from a Gradle build. It presents the agenda, explains why the plugin is useful for automating the tedious manual upload process, describes how to set up the plugin by creating a Google service account and configuring Gradle, and demonstrates its tasks and directory structure. References for the Google Publishing API and plugin are provided at the end.

1. Gradle Play Publisher Plugin
Daniel Kao <daniel.kao@gmail.com>

2.  Android developer (but writing server codes now…
 Self developed apps
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Who am I

3.  Why
 What is it
 How
 Demo time (if there’s still time…
 Reference
Agenda

4.  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

5.  A Gradle plugin to upload your APK and app details to
the Google Play Store.
What is it?

6.  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

7.  Create Google Service Account
 Setup plugin in build.gradle
How

8.  Go to the API Access page on the Google Play Developer
Console.
Create Google Service Account

9.  API Manager
New Credentials

10.  Create service account key

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

12.  Grant Access
Create Google Service Account

13.  Accept it
New Credentials (cont’d)

14.  Check necessary
permissions
Grant
Permissions

15.  Add dependency
 Apply the plugin
Setup build.gradle

16.  Configure play section
Setup build.gradle (cont’d)

17.  Extra settings
Setup build.gradle (cont’d)
Setting Description
errorOnSizeLimit = 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

18. 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.

19. Directory Tree

20. Directory Tree II

21.  Need to upload first release through web so that it
knows the package id
Tips

22. Demo

23.  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