Publisher Plugin

A Gradle plugin for publishing your Android app to Google Play

License	The MIT License
Categories	Gradle Build Tools
GroupId	co.parish.stephen.publisher
ArtifactId	gradle-plugin
Last Version	1.0.0
Release Date	Sep 12, 2014
Type	jar
Description	Publisher Plugin A Gradle plugin for publishing your Android app to Google Play
Project URL	https://github.com/stephenparish/publisher-plugin
Source Code Management	https://github.com/stephenparish/publisher-plugin

Download gradle-plugin

Filename	Size
gradle-plugin-1.0.0.pom
gradle-plugin-1.0.0.jar	20 KB
gradle-plugin-1.0.0-sources.jar	3 KB
gradle-plugin-1.0.0-javadoc.jar	25 KB

How to add to project

Apache Maven

<!-- https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/co.parish.stephen.publisher/gradle-plugin/ -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>co.parish.stephen.publisher</groupId>
    <artifactId>gradle-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

Gradle Groovy

// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/co.parish.stephen.publisher/gradle-plugin/
implementation 'co.parish.stephen.publisher:gradle-plugin:1.0.0'

Gradle Kotlin

// https://jarcasting.com/artifacts/co.parish.stephen.publisher/gradle-plugin/
implementation ("co.parish.stephen.publisher:gradle-plugin:1.0.0")

Apache Buildr

'co.parish.stephen.publisher:gradle-plugin:jar:1.0.0'

Apache Ivy

<dependency org="co.parish.stephen.publisher" name="gradle-plugin" rev="1.0.0">
  <artifact name="gradle-plugin" type="jar" />
</dependency>

Groovy Grape

@Grapes(
@Grab(group='co.parish.stephen.publisher', module='gradle-plugin', version='1.0.0')
)

Scala SBT

libraryDependencies += "co.parish.stephen.publisher" % "gradle-plugin" % "1.0.0"

Leiningen

[co.parish.stephen.publisher/gradle-plugin "1.0.0"]

Dependencies

compile (2)

Group / Artifact	Type	Version
com.android.tools.build : gradle	jar	0.12.1
com.google.apis : google-api-services-androidpublisher	jar	v2-rev6-1.19.0

Project Modules

There are no modules declared in this project.

Android Publisher Plugin

A simple gradle plugin for uploading to the Google Play store with the Google Play Developer API

Supported functionality:

• Uploading an APK to alpha, beta and production tracks.

Usage

Recommendations

Use at your own risk. I highly recommend testing with uploads to Alpha track first. My personal process:

1. Developer
   • Commit a release candidate branch
2. CI Server
   • Build and run acceptence test
   • If passing upload to alpha
3. Developer
   • Log in to play
   • Verify proper build details
   • Promote to beta or prod

It is not recommended to upload builds to any track more than once a day. The production track should be updated even less frequently, and with extreme care.

See Google Play Developer API Usage Instructions for more tips.

What You Need

• Service account for uploading
• Private key for service account

Create a service account here

When done, you should be able to download client_secrets.json for the service account. DO NOT commit this file to source control. Should look something like this:

{
  "private_key_id": "{your_key_id}",
  "private_key": "{your_key}",
  "client_email": "{your_email}@developer.gserviceaccount.com",
  "client_id": "{your_id}.apps.googleusercontent.com",
  "type": "service_account"
}

Setup

Apply the plugin in your build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'co.parish.stephen.publisher:gradle-plugin:1.0'
    }
}

apply plugin: 'android'
apply plugin: 'android-publisher'

android {
    // ...
}

publisher {
    clientSecretsFile = file("client_secrets.json")
}

Sample Tasks and Output

When running ./gradlew tasks you should see something like (not including your flavors):

Note: debuggable build types are skipped by default.

Tasks:

Publish tasks
-------------
publishReleaseToGooglePlayAlpha - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store alpha track
publishReleaseToGooglePlayBeta - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store beta track
publishReleaseToGooglePlayProduction - Publishes 'release' to Google Play Store production track

Output:

./gradlew publishReleaseToGooglePlayAlpha
...
Created edit with id: [[UUID]]
Version code 10000 has been uploaded
Track alpha has been updated
App edit with id [[UUID]] has been comitted

Versions

Version
1.0.0 Sep 12, 2014