- Introduction to Publishing Apps 1:39
- Removing Log Calls 4:23
- Building a Release-Ready APK 4:25
- Review: Getting An App Ready for Google Play 5 questions
- The Google Play Developer Console 3:08
- Uploading an APK 7:26
- Review: Publishing on Google Play 5 questions
- Creating the Store Listing 4:59
- Updating an Existing App 4:22
- Review: Publishing and Updating an App 5 questions
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Uploading an APK
7:26Uploading the APK file we just generated shows us a few things in the developer console, like what devices can and cannot run the app. After uploading we'll see how to take and then add screenshots to our listing.
Okay.
We are ready to add a new application.
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So click right here.
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Now, before we upload anything,
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it's worth mentioning that we can get
everything ready here in a draft status,
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before actually publishing our app.
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We can add all the app information first.
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And we can even add the APK file, and
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leave it in a draft status, until we're
ready to click that big publish button.
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Okay, so the first thing we need to put is
the title, fun facts.
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And I'll leave the language as English for
fun facts.
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Now next we can proceed with Uploading the
APK or
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going on to the Store Listing details.
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But since we already have built the APK
let's start with that.
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Okay, so here we are in the APK section.
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And there's a button down here to upload
our first APK to Production.
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There's a little bit of information here
about licenses, but
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we don't need that for this app.
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If you wanna read more about when you
might need a license key for your app.
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Then check out the documentation on the
Android developer site.
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Okay, so we click this button.
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So here we could browse to the directory
where we built our APK or
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we can go directly into Android Studio,
grab the APK app release over
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here from the project view and drag it
here into the window.
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Okay?
It takes a second to process and verify.
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And we're good, okay.
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If there were any errors with our APK then
we would see some errors or
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warning here that we'd have to fix before
we could proceed with the upload.
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With a successful upload, like this,
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the first thing we see is a list of
devices that can and can not run this app.
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Looks good here.
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This list is generated based on a few
things we set when we created our app.
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Like the minimum version of the Android
SDK.
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We can browse the list here and make sure
that it matches up with what we expect.
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For example if I scroll down to the Nexus
line, here in the Google
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section we show all ten and sure it shows
on all the different Nexus's.
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Okay, I'm just scroll to the bottom and
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click cancel and if we wanted to exclude
any devices intentionally, like if we
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knew there was a problem with our app on a
specific device, then we could come
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here to the manage excluded devices and we
could add things manually here.
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Once again, I'll scroll down and hit
cancel.
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Okay, here at the bottom is an option for
a translation service,
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if we wanted to translate our app into
other languages.
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Let's go back up to the top, and you'll
notice that we were here in the production
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tab, but there are also tabs for beta
testing and for alpha testing.
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This is really cool, we can upload an app
to Google Play and
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let users beta test it before we release
it to the general public.
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Let's take a look at beta testing.
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We need to upload a separate APK file in
here and
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then we can add beta testers by way of a
Google group or Google Plus community.
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You can find more information about this
in the distribute section of
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the Android developer site.
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Okay, so we're done with our APK.
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Next we need to work through the details
of our app listing on the store.
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So, over here on the left, after the APK
section, click on store listing.
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Okay.
So, we see the title that we
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already added and now we need both a short
and full description of the app.
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I have got a few of these already
prepared.
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So, I am gonna paste in the short
description.
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And now, the long description as well.
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Both of these are copying and
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pasting in the teachers notes if you are
uploading the fun facts yourself.
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Although feel free to change them.
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Now, if we scroll down, the next thing we
need are screenshots.
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It's recommend to add screenshots for each
type of devices.
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Phones, 7 inch tablet and a 10-inch
tablet.
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We can do this on a device or an emulator.
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Let's look at how to take them on an
emulator using the device monitor in
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Android Studio.
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Okay.
So don't follow along with me just yet
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because I am going to demonstrate a quick
bug in case you run into it yourselves.
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So first, I am going to run the Fun Facts
app.
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And I'm going to launch my Android 442
emulator, and run it in the same one.
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So once the app loads in the emulator, go
back to Android Studio and look for
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this button up here, just to the right of
the SDK manager.
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This is for the Android Studio device
monitor.
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Once it opens, find your emulator over
here on the left.
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And then click on this little camera icon
right here.
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This opens a screenshot preview.
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And, that's unfortunate, screen not
available.
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There's a bug with how the Android 44
versions of the emulator run with
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this device monitor.
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We are unable to take screenshots of those
types of emulators.
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So the workaround is to download an
emulator.
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For different a different version of
Android, and
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then we can just take screenshots in
there.
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So, let's take a look at how to do that.
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Let's close this and go back into Android
Studio.
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And, we wanna go to the SDK Manager.
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And then, once it loads, we just wanna get
an older version of the Android SDK.
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So, right now, we are using Android 4.4.2.
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But if we scroll down, we can go to
Android 4.2.2 and we can select to
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install the SDK platform and this ARM EABI
System Image.
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This is the emulator image.
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So, check these two and click on the
Install button down here.
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Now, mine are already installed.
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So, I am just going to skip the actual
installation.
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So now, we need to create a new emulator
with the new tools that we
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just downloaded.
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So, click on the AVD Manager here.
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And in addition to our current version,
we're gonna create a new one.
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And I'll call this Android 422.
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And for the device, I will pick a Nexus 4.
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And I'm gonna change the target from 442
to 422.
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'Kay?
Make sure the CPU is set to ARM and,
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again, you can play around with these
different attributes.
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I'm just going to check for host GPU and I
need to pick a skin,
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so I'll just say, no skin and then I'll
click okay to create the emulator.
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Okay it looks good, so I'm gonna start
from here.
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Select it and click start.
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Then launch and now I'll wait just a
minute for the emulator to launch.
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If you're working on an older or slower
computer, you may want to
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close your existing emulator before
attempting to launch a new one.
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Okay.
And once the emulator starts,
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we can go back to the Android Studio and
launch our app again.
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And this time, instead of running in
4.4.2.
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We wanna run it in 4.2.2 and click OK.
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And there we go.
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Now, our app is here in 4.2.2.
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And now this time, if we go to the device
monitor.
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Once again, I'll select the emulator and
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this time when I hit the screenshot
button.
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After a second to repair, we get the
option to capture the image.
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Okay.
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The line looks rather huge because I'm
running this on a retina Macbook pro.
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So, the scale is a little bit off.
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But if I, I can then save this screen shot
wherever I want.
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I'll just save mine on my desktop.
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And we want, at least, two different
screen shots.
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So I'm gonna go back to the emulator and
if I click on the button again.
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We'll get a different screen.
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And let's take a screen shot of this one
as well.
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So we'll come back here to device screen
capture, refresh and
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save the new version here.
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I'll also save this one to the desktop so
both are available.
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Cool.
So we're done with this one.
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Now, all the screen shots are available as
downloads in the teacher's notes.
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Including ones for tablets.
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If you wanted to create a tablet emulator
and take screenshots,
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you would do the same steps that we just
walked through to create the 422 emulator.
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You don't need to get anything from the
SDK manager,
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you can just go to the AVD manager and
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create a new tablet version of an emulator
running that same 422 version of Android.
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Okay.
So, back in our listing,
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I am going to add the screenshots that I
have linked below this video in
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the teacher's notes.
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So, first for the phone, let's add the
first screenshot.
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Screenshot 1 and click Open.
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And then we'll do the same thing for
screenshot 2.
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And once they are in place,
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we have the option to drag them around if
we want to re-order them.
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I'll leave the green one in front.
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And then now let's do a 7" tablet.
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We'll do the 7" screenshot.
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And finally a 10" tablet, where I opted to
take it in landscape mode just to show.
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Okay, looking good.
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Let's take a quick break and then we'll
finish our store listing in the next video
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