Submitting to the Google Play Store
This guide outlines how to submit your app to the Google Play Store from your own computer and from CI.
Before using eas submit -p android for uploading your builds, you have to upload your app manually at least once. This is a limitation of the Google Play Store API.
You'll need a built native app binary. You can either use the
EAS Build service or do it on your own.
To submit the binary to the Play Store, run eas submit -p android from inside your project directory. The command will lead you step by step through the process of submitting the app. To see all possible options along with example usages, run eas submit --help.
Although it's possible to upload any binary to the store, each submission is assigned to an Expo project. That's why it's important to start submission from inside your project's directory - that's where your
app configuration is defined.
To upload your Android app to the Google Play Store, run eas submit --platform android and follow the instructions on the screen.
The command will perform the following steps:
Log in to your Expo account and ensure that your app project exists on EAS servers.
Prompt for the Android package name unless android.package is set in app configuration or the --android-package param is provided.
Ask for which binary to submit. You can select one of the following:
When you chose local path or URL as your binary location, the command will try to autodetect the archive type based on the file extension. If it's unable to do so, it may prompt you to specify whether it's an APK or AAB archive. You can also use a --type parameter.
Unless a --key param is provided, you will be prompted for the path to your Google Services JSON key.
The summary of provided configuration is displayed and the submission process begins. The submission progress is displayed on the screen.
Your build should now be visible on Google Play Console. If something goes wrong, an appropriate message is displayed on the screen.
The eas submit command is able to perform submissions from a CI environment. All you have to do is ensure that all required information is provided with command parameters and environment variables. Mainly, providing the archive source (--latest, --id, --path or --url) is essential. Also, make sure that Android package name is present in your app configuration file, unless you provide the --android-package flag.
For Android submissions, you must provide the path to your Google Services JSON key using the --key parameter. If you're not using EAS Builds for building your binary, consider specifying --type=(APK|AAB) explicitly. You may also find the --track and --release-status parameters useful.
Example usage:
eas submit -p android --latest --key=/path/to/google-services.json