Submit to the Google Play Store

Learn how to submit your app to the Google Play Store from your computer and CI/CD services.

This guide outlines how to submit your app to the Google Play Store from your computer or from a CI/CD service.

Submitting your app from your computer

{
  "android": {
    "package": "com.yourcompany.yourapp"
  }
}

Once you have completed all the prerequisites, you can start the submission process.

Run the following command to submit a build to the Google Play Store:

The command will lead you step by step through the process of submitting the app. You can configure the submission process by adding a submission profile in eas.json. Learn about all the options you can provide in the eas.json reference.

To speed up the submission process, you can use the --auto-submit flag to automatically submit a build after it's built:

Learn more about the --auto-submit flag in the automate submissions guide.

Submitting your app using CI/CD services

Prerequisites

8 requirements

1.

Sign up for a Google Play Developer account

A Google Play Developer account is required to submit your app to the Google Play Store. You can sign up for a Google Play Developer account on the Google Play Console sign-up page.

2.

Create an app on Google Play Console

Create an app by clicking Create app in the Google Play Console.

3.

Create a Google Service Account

EAS requires you to upload and configure a Google Service Account Key to submit your Android app to the Google Play Store. You can create one with the uploading a Google Service Account Key for Play Store submissions with EAS guide.

4.

Install EAS CLI and authenticate with your Expo account

Install EAS CLI and login with your Expo account:

Terminal

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- npm install -g eas-cli && eas login

5.

Include a package name in app.json

Include your app's package name in app.json:

app.json

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{
  "android": {
    "package": "com.yourcompany.yourapp"
  }
}

6.

Upload your Google Service Account key to EAS dashboard

Then, you need to upload your Google Service Account key to EAS dashboard under project's credentials.

EAS dashboard

EAS CLI

• Go to your project's EAS dashboard, click Credentials, and under Android, click your app's Application identifier.
• Under Service Credentials, click Add a Google Service Account Key.
• Under Change Google Service Account Key, ensure Upload new key is selected and upload the downloaded JSON key. This will add the key to your project's credentials.

You can also upload the JSON key to the EAS dashboard using EAS CLI:

• Run eas credentials --platform android
• When prompted Which build profile do you want to configure?, select production
• When prompted What do you want to do?, select Google Service Account > Upload a Google Service Account Key
• Then add the JSON key file path to the upload the file to EAS dashboard

7.

Build a production app

You'll need a production build ready for store submission. You can create one using EAS Build:

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- eas build --platform android --profile production

Alternatively, you can build the app on your own computer with eas build --platform android --profile production --local or with Android Studio.

8.

Upload your app manually at least once

You have to upload your app manually at least once. This is a limitation of the Google Play Store API.

Learn how with the first submission of an Android app guide.

Once you have completed all the prerequisites, you can set up a CI/CD pipeline to submit your app to the Google Play Store.

Use EAS Workflows CI/CD

You can use EAS Workflows to build and submit your app automatically.

1. Create a workflow file named .eas/workflows/submit-android.yml at the root of your project.

2. Inside submit-android.yml, you can use the following workflow to kick off a job that submits an Android app:

   .eas/workflows/submit-android.yml

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   on:
     push:
       branches: ['main']
   
   jobs:
     build_android:
       name: Build Android app
       type: build
       params:
         platform: android
         profile: production
   
     submit_android:
       name: Submit to Google Play Store
       needs: [build_android]
       type: submit
       params:
         platform: android
         build_id: ${{ needs.build_android.outputs.build_id }}
   

   The workflow above will build the Android app and then submit it to the Google Play Store.

Use other CI/CD services

You can use other CI/CD services to submit your app with EAS Submit, like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and more by running the following command:

This command requires a personal access token to authenticate with your Expo account. Once you have one, provide the EXPO_TOKEN environment variable in the CI/CD service, which will allow the eas submit command to run.