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[Question] How do i get my PWABuilder android app on to the play store? Seems impossible since they switched to AAB bundles #2137

Closed svbeek-ida closed 2 years ago

svbeek-ida commented 2 years ago

Question in detail

Since google forces developers to use the AAB format instead of APK, i was unable to my application (build with PWABuilder) onto the store. The problem is related to signing. There are 3 signing options:

So im stuck.. any idea how to continue?

Is your question related to a problem? Please describe.

See https://github.com/pwa-builder/PWABuilder/issues/2089. The solution mentioned here (upload a signed AAB and have the play store override the signing does not work. The play store just gives an error about the key beeing incorrect. There is no option to overr ide the key!

Describe alternatives you've considered

Maybe using an alternative tool like cordova?

ghost commented 2 years ago

Hello svbeek-ida, thank you for your interest in PWABuilder!

I have automatically added a "needs triage" label to help get things started. Our team will look into the question and answer ASAP. Other community members may also answer the question and provide feedback 🙌

davrous commented 2 years ago

Hi @svbeek-ida, sorry for the inconvenience. Pinging @andreban from Google Bubblewrap to check if he can help.

andreban commented 2 years ago

@svbeek-ida it sounds like you are updating an existing application on Play and need to sign it with an existing key, is that right?

svbeek-ida commented 2 years ago

@andreban no its a new application, but using an existing developer account that was used to publish other applications

andreban commented 2 years ago

If that's a new app, you shouldn't have an upload signing key yet. The key PWA Builder will used to sign the APK is your upload signing key. Effectively, PWA Builder is doing steps 1 and 2 of the high level overview of the steps in this doc https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.

JudahGabriel commented 2 years ago

To be clear, @svbeek-ida, you don't have any existing versions of this app in Google Play, do you?

svbeek-ida commented 2 years ago

@JudahGabriel no we dont. Im going to try again this afternoon and will get back to you with feedback.

JudahGabriel commented 2 years ago

Closing for inactivity.

Feel free to reopen this issue if you're still hitting problems.

ghost commented 2 years ago

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