Upload Android release to the Play Store

This action will help you upload an Android .apk or .aab (Android App Bundle) file to the Google Play Console using the Google Play Developer API v3.

Inputs

You must provide one of either serviceAccountJson or serviceAccountJsonPlainText

serviceAccountJson

The service account json private key file to authorize the upload request

serviceAccountJsonPlainText

The service account json in plain text, provided via a secret, etc.

packageName

Required: The package name, or Application Id, of the app you are uploading

releaseFile

DEPRECATED: Please switch to using releaseFiles as this will be removed in the future The Android release file to upload (.apk or .aab)

releaseFiles

CAVEAT: Either this or releaseFile are required

The Android release file(s) to upload (.apk or .aab). Multiple files are separated by ','. Supports glob.

releaseName

The release name. Not required to be unique. If not set, the name is generated from the APK's versionName. If the release contains multiple APKs, the name is generated from the date.

track

Required: The track in which you want to assign the uploaded app. Default: production Values: alpha, beta, internal, production, internalsharing

inAppUpdatePriority

In-app update priority of the release. All newly added APKs in the release will be considered at this priority. Can take values in the range [0, 5], with 5 the highest priority.

Default: 0 Values: [0, 5]

userFraction

Portion of users who should get the staged version of the app. Accepts values between 0.0 and 1.0 (exclusive-exclusive). Omitting this value will execute a full rollout.

whatsNewDirectory

The directory of localized whats new files to upload as the release notes. The files contained in the whatsNewDirectory MUST use the pattern whatsnew-<LOCALE> where LOCALE is using the BCP 47 format, e.g.

• en-US - English/America
• de-DE - German/Germany
• ja-JP - Japanese/Japan

and contain plain utf8 encoded text with no extension on the file. The resulting directory in your project should look something like this:

projectDir/
└── whatsNewDirectory/
    ├── whatsnew-en-US
    ├── whatsnew-de-DE
    └── whatsnew-ja-JP

where whatsNewDirectory is the path you pass to the action.

mappingFile

The mapping.txt file used to de-obfuscate your stack traces from crash reports

Outputs

internalSharingDownloadUrls

A JSON list containing the download urls for every release file uploaded using the track internalsharing

ENV VAR: INTERNAL_SHARING_DOWNLOAD_URLS

The environment variable that is set when using the track internalsharing

internalSharingDownloadUrl

The download url for the last release file uploaded using the track internalsharing, useful when a single release file is uploaded

ENV VAR: INTERNAL_SHARING_DOWNLOAD_URL

The environment variable that is set when using the track internalsharing

Example usage

uses: r0adkll/[email protected]
with:
  serviceAccountJson: ${{ SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON }}
  packageName: com.example.MyApp
  releaseFile: ${{ SIGNED_RELEASE_FILE}}
  track: production
  inAppUpdatePriority: 2
  userFraction: 0.33
  whatsNewDirectory: distribution/whatsnew
  mappingFile: app/build/outputs/mapping/release/mapping.txt

Using glob to get release files

uses: r0adkll/[email protected]
with:
  serviceAccountJson: ${{ SERVICE_ACCOUNT_JSON }}
  packageName: com.example.MyApp
  releaseFiles: app/build/outputs/bundle/release/*.aab
  track: production
  inAppUpdatePriority: 2
  userFraction: 0.33
  whatsNewDirectory: distribution/whatsnew
  mappingFile: app/build/outputs/mapping/release/mapping.txt