Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Publishing "RekenMaar" to Google Play

One of the first ever dot42 apps is called "RekenMaar" (which is Dutch for Let's do some mathematics). This apps (written by my wife) is intended to let our children practice mathematics while "playing" on the tablet.

We've now published this app in Google Play.
This articles talks about what was needed to publish this app.

Publishing in Google Play

Publishing the app in Google Play was an easy process.
 We first uploaded the APK to Google Play (Android Developer Console). After the upload, Google Play complaint about a missing version code. That was indeed correct, so we added this line to our code:
[assembly: Package(VersionName = "1.0.0",
        VersionCode = 2)]
Then we re-compiled, re-tested and re-uploaded. This time everything was fine.

We then had to upload screenshots (press Volume Down and Power button at the same time on Android 4.1 to make one), add a high resolution icon and a product description. During that process Google Play warned us several times that the application was for free. "Did we really want that?"

Finally we activated the APK and published the app.
Now all we had to do was to wait a few hours until the app appeared in Google Play.

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