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basilisk
basilisk

Reputation: 1277

How to deploy a Kivy app to Google App Store?

Deploying a Kivy app to Google Play Store is a true pain. I spent over a week now trying to deploying the app to the Play Store, whereas I spent only 5 days developing it.

After managing to overcome all problems during the build process with buildozer, I'm facing now another problem when I want to deploy my app to google store. This is the warning I'm getting:

Unoptimised APK Warning:

This APK results in unused code and resources being sent to users. Your app could be smaller if you used the Android App Bundle. By not optimising your app for device configurations, your app is larger to download and install on users' devices than it needs to be. Larger apps see lower installation success rates and take up storage on users' devices.

Resolution:

Use the Android App Bundle to automatically optimise for device configurations, or manage it yourself with multiple APKs.

I know It's just a warning, I can ignore it right? I thought so too, but google store is not allowing me to deploy my app. So I must somehow solve this issue so that I can finally deploy my app in peace.

Here are the steps I'm making to build my app:

But none of that worked. Still google store is saying I need to make a bundle android app. But I'm using kivy/python so I can't use android studio to make a bundle and I can't find in buildozer docs how I can do this or if it is supported.

My app size is 28 MB, I even tried to remove some necessary stuff just to see whether it will work. So I reduced the size to 14 MB but that didn't work either. It's really frustrating. Building apps is fun while coding but the deployment process is real headache.

Here is a link to my app in case you want to play with the code or see the buildozer.spec file. I lost hope of uploading it to Play Store, hence I open sourced it.

Edit

here is how the google play console looks in my case:

This is the first tab, where I upload the app:

This is the first tab, where I upload the app

This is the second tab, where I should review and then release (notice here that I can't press the roll out to production button):

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Upvotes: 2

Views: 3746

Answers (1)

inclement
inclement

Reputation: 29450

As you guessed, the message you're seeing about using AAB is just a warning, it doesn't prevent you from releasing the app. You're far from the first person to be confused by it though, the google interface is quite unclear.

ui screenshot

The actual problem is that you need to make sure all the essential information is filled in on every page of the app store configuration. In your screenshot above, pages that have been completed are marked by a green circle with a check mark. In contrast, the "Store Listing" page only has a greyed-out check mark, indicating that you need to add something there before you can release the APK.

As discussed in comments, it turned out that the missing thing was screenshots of the app, and after adding them it could be released successfully despite the warning message.

Upvotes: 3

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