Android Publisher Plugin

A simple gradle plugin for uploading to the Google Play store with the Google Play Developer API

Supported functionality:

• Uploading an APK to alpha, beta and production tracks.

Usage

Recommendations

Use at your own risk. I highly recommend testing with uploads to Alpha track first. My personal process:

1. Developer
   • Commit a release candidate branch
2. CI Server
   • Build and run acceptence test
   • If passing upload to alpha
3. Developer
   • Log in to play
   • Verify proper build details
   • Promote to beta or prod

It is not recommended to upload builds to any track more than once a day. The production track should be updated even less frequently, and with extreme care.

See Google Play Developer API Usage Instructions for more tips.

What You Need

• Service account for uploading
• Private key for service account

Create a service account here

When done, you should be able to download client_secrets.json for the service account. DO NOT commit this file to source control. Should look something like this:

{
  "private_key_id": "{your_key_id}",
  "private_key": "{your_key}",
  "client_email": "{your_email}@developer.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "{your_id}.apps.googleusercontent.com",
  "type": "service_account"
}

Setup

Apply the plugin in your build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'co.parish.stephen.publisher:gradle-plugin:1.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'android'
apply plugin: 'android-publisher'

android {
    // ...
}

publisher {
    clientSecretsFile = file("client_secrets.json")
}

Sample Tasks and Output

When running ./gradlew tasks you should see something like (not including your flavors):

Note: debuggable build types are skipped by default.

Tasks:

Publish tasks
-------------
publishReleaseToGooglePlayAlpha - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store alpha track
publishReleaseToGooglePlayBeta - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store beta track
publishReleaseToGooglePlayProduction - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store production track

Output:

./gradlew publishReleaseToGooglePlayAlpha
...
Created edit with id: [[UUID]]
Version code 10000 has been uploaded
Track alpha has been updated
App edit with id [[UUID]] has been comitted