Gradle plugin to upload your APK and app details to the Google Play Store. Needs the com.android.application plugin applied. Supports the Android Application Plugin as of version 1.0.0.

To use the publisher plugin you have to create a service account for your existing Google Play Account. See https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/getting_started for more information.

Due to the way the Google Play Publisher API works, you have to grant at least the following permissions to that service account:

Once you finished the setup you have a so called service account email address and a p12 key file that we will use later on.

Add it to your buildscript dependencies:

buildscript {

    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    
    dependencies {
    	// ...
        classpath 'com.github.triplet.gradle:play-publisher:1.0.2'
    }
}

Apply it:

apply plugin: 'play'

The plugin creates the following tasks for you:

• publishApkRelease - Uploads the APK and the summary of recent changes.
• publishListingRelease - Uploads the descriptions and images for the Play Store listing.
• publishRelease - Uploads everything.
• bootstrapReleasePlayResources - Fetch all existing data from the Play Store to bootstrap the required files and folders.

In case you are using product flavors you will get one of the above tasks for every flavor. E.g. publishApkPaidRelease or publishListingPaidRelease.

Once you have applied this plugin to your android application project you can configure it via the play block.

Drop in your service account email address and the p12 key file you generated in the API Console here.

play {
    serviceAccountEmail = 'your-service-account-email'
    pk12File = file('key.p12')
}

You can also update the Play Store Metadata automatically along with your APK.

To use this feature, create a special source folder called play. Inside, create a folder for each locale you want to support. Then drop your summary of recent changes into a file called whatsnew. The title, the description and the short description go into their own files in a subfolder called listing. Once set up, your project should look something like this:

- [src]
  |
  + - [main]
      |
      + - [play]
          |
          + - [en-US]
          |   |
          |   + - [listing]
          |   |   |
          |   |   + - fulldescription
          |   |   |
          |   |   + - shortdescription
          |   |   |
          |   |   + - title
          |   |
          |   + - whatsnew
          |
          + - [de-DE]
              |
              + - [listing]
              |   |
              |   + - fulldescription
              |   |
              |   + - shortdescription
              |   |
              |   + - title
              |
              + - whatsnew

Note: Make sure your texts comply to the requirements of the Play Store, that is they do not exceed the allowed lengths of 30 characters for the title, 80 characters for the short description, 4000 characters for the description and 500 characters for the summary of recent changes.

Note: You can provide different texts for different locales, build types and product flavors. You may even support additional locales for some build types or product flavors.

As a default your APK is published to the alpha track and you can promote it to beta or production manually. If you want to directly publish to another track you can specify it via the track property:

play {
    // ...
    track = 'production' // or 'beta' or 'alpha'
}

It is also possible to provide a separate summary of recent changes for each track. Just drop in a special whatsnew-alpha text file alongside your main whatsnew file and that one will be used if you publish to the alpha track.

Currently images are only uploaded if you explicitly say so:

play {
    // ...
    uploadImages = true
}

In that case the plugin looks for the Play Store images in your play folder. So just drop all your images into a folder structure similar to:

- [src]
  |
  + - [main]
      |
      + - [play]
          |
          + - [en-US]
              |
              + - [listing]
                  |
                  + - [featureGraphic]
                  |
                  + - [icon]
                  |
                  + - [phoneScreenshots]
                  |
                  + - [promoGraphic]
                  |
                  + - [sevenInchScreenshots]
                  |
                  + - [tenInchScreenshots]

Note: The plugin currently does not enforce the correct size and file type. If you try to upload invalid files, the Google API will fail with a detailed error message.

Note: We still have some issues when you change the images in those folders. For now you should do a full rebuild whenever you change them.

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 Copyright (c) 2015 Christian Becker
 Copyright (c) 2015 Björn Hurling

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