Release to production window appears, scroll down and click Review
Confirm roll-out to production window appears. Click start roll-out to production
A confirmation window will appear, click Confirm
That’s it!, we are done! Click on your app menu, it will show that our app is now Pending Publication. Once it is approved, it will be on the Play Store
That is the end of our tutorial series on how to publish app to Play Store.
The content rating Questionaire appears. Firstly, lets fill in our email address and confirm it.
Next we will select our app category. Based on your app type, you will have to answer different set of questionaire. In this example, I will click Reference but yours maybe different.
You will be asked a lot of Yes and No questions, answer all of them and press Save Questionnaire
If there are no errors, the Calculate Rating button will become blue. Click Calculate Rating
Yeay! we now have generated the Content Ratings. Click Apply Rating
Our ratings are now applied. You will see a green checkmark at Content Rating. Next, we will set Pricing and Distribution
An Agreement Page appears. Agree with the agreement and click Continue To Payment
A payment window appears. Complete the details and press Buy
Finally, after the payment, fill in the Developer Profile form and click Complete Registration
You will then be able to access the Google Play Console. This means your registration is now complete. You would notice though that there will not any app registered unlike my account.
Publishing our app to Google Play Console
Click Create Application
A window appears. Fill in the title of your application and press Create
Uploading the App Bundle (.aab)
Click App Releases
For the purpose of simplicity we will skip beta testing and assume that our program is already the Production version of things. Wooooow. Under Production Track, click Manage
Click Create Release
You will be asked to let Google manage and protect your app signing key, press Continue
Click Browse Files
A file window opens, select our .aab and click Open
Once upload is done, the Android App Bundle will be shown together with its version code and size.
Scroll down to What’s new in this release? Then type a simple description of the changes you made to the app. Since this is the initial release, lets type in “This is the initial release of the application” and press Save
We are not done yet, don’t click Review. Next, we will set a Content Rating