🤖 Publish on Android

Preparing Google Play Console

Sign into The U's Email Account ( Login credentials can be found in PassPortal )

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This email account requires 2FA to complete the login process. This can only be completed by the company's owner. Please reach out to Justin for assistance getting into the email account.

Once signed in, open up the Google Play Console. On the dashboard, Select "All Apps" and open the app called "The U | More than just a gym"

We will leave this tab open for now and return to it later.

Configuring Android Studio

In order to deploy the app to the Google Play Store, we first need to do some project configuration in Android studio.

Opening The App

Download and Install Android Studio
Open Android Studio
If you already have Android Studio Installed and have opened the project before, click on the project "The U" and continue to the next section.

If you have NOT opened the project before, under the Projects Tab, Click Open and navigate to the android folder for the React Native project.

Select the build.gradle file inside this folder

Update the build.gradle versionCode by adding 1 to whatever value is currently present.
- if the value is 4, change to 5.
- if the value is 1000, change to 1001.
Update the build.gradle versionName to the latest version of the app.

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Error: "Version code X has already been used. Try another version code."

If the version number is already taken when you try to upload, itterate the version code by one additional value. For example, if you updated the version to 5 and version 5 was already used, change it to 6. Continue this process until that upload is successful.

Update the Release Build

Inside Android Studio, Right Click on the folder called "app" in the project explorer
Select "Open Module Settings"

Select Modules -> Signing Config
Click the + icon to add a new signing config.
- Name it udfSigning
- Click on the folder icon at the end of the input field for "Store File"
  - Navigate to the following directory: React-Native---The-U-App -> TheUApp -> Assets -> Android Keys
  - Select the file named "Untitled"
  - Inside the directory for Android Keys, open the readme.md file
  - Set the Store Password to the value of "Key store password" in the readme.md file
  - Set the Key Alias to the value of "Key alias" in the readme.md file
  - Set the Key Password to the value of "Key password" in the readme.md file

Select Modules -> Default Config
- Set the new version name
- Set the signing config to the new signing config we just created
  - $signingConfigs.udfSigning

Select Build Variants -> release
- Set signing Config to the new signing config we just created
  - $signingConfigs.udfSigning

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If you cannot see the folder selection icon, there is a slider at the bottom of the window that you can use to scroll the window over to the right.

Generating a Signed Bundle

Select Build -> Generate Signed Bundle / APK

Inside the Modal window, select Android App Bundle and click next

Select a key store path
- Click Choose existing...
- Under the React-Native---The-U-App Project folder, navigate to the following directory:
  - React-Native---The-U-App -> TheUApp -> Assets -> Android Keys
  - Select the file named "Untitled"