Publishing an App to Google Play Store
Publishing an App to Google Play Store#
For Google Play, prefer publishing an Android App Bundle (.aab) with Play App Signing.
Build a Signed Release#
- In Android Studio, select
Build > Generate Signed Bundle / APK. - Select
Android App Bundlefor Google Play releases. - Choose or create an upload keystore.
- Select the release build variant.
- Build the signed bundle.
Android Studio handles the signing flow for normal releases.
Do not follow old instructions that manually run zipalign against app-release-unaligned.apk.
Update the Version#
You need to update your versionCode and versionName.
In Gradle, set them in the module build file:
defaultConfig {
versionCode 6
versionName "1.0.5"
}