WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:01.820 Hi and welcome back. 2 00:00:01.850 --> 00:00:04.180 Today we're going to go over how to upload 3 00:00:04.210 --> 00:00:08.300 our Android application to Google Play Store using Fastlane. 4 00:00:08.330 --> 00:00:10.420 We're going to automate this process so 5 00:00:10.450 --> 00:00:14.300 every new version that we have once we make changes to our application, 6 00:00:14.330 --> 00:00:17.780 can be uploaded to Google Play Store using Fastlane 7 00:00:17.810 --> 00:00:20.180 and just one command. For this, 8 00:00:20.210 --> 00:00:24.140 we're going to have to set up Fastlane in our repository for Android as well. 9 00:00:24.170 --> 00:00:26.500 We're still follow this donation. 10 00:00:26.530 --> 00:00:31.900 If you haven't set this up for iOS, please make sure to open the link given 11 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:37.180 in the resources and run these three commands given here so that you're all 12 00:00:37.210 --> 00:00:42.260 ready to get started with Android application deployment. 13 00:00:42.290 --> 00:00:44.300 Now once you have that ready, 14 00:00:44.330 --> 00:00:49.160 we're going to scroll down to the Android section and make sure that we have all 15 00:00:49.180 --> 00:00:53.180 the prerequisites we need to start setting this up. 16 00:00:53.210 --> 00:00:57.900 So first of all, we're going to need a Google Play Console admin account. 17 00:00:57.930 --> 00:00:59.300 We already have that. 18 00:00:59.330 --> 00:01:02.620 And just make sure that you are verified 19 00:01:02.650 --> 00:01:06.490 before getting started, because unless you're verified, 20 00:01:06.520 --> 00:01:10.980 this setup won't work and you're going to waste time watching this video. 21 00:01:11.010 --> 00:01:12.570 Now let's continue. 22 00:01:12.600 --> 00:01:16.660 So we need to create an application in the Google Play Console. 23 00:01:16.690 --> 00:01:18.740 So let's do that. 24 00:01:18.770 --> 00:01:23.570 Let's go to Google Play console. 25 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:25.660 I'm going to click on this link, 26 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:28.540 and here you're going to see that I already have some apps created. 27 00:01:28.570 --> 00:01:30.820 This screen should be blank for you, 28 00:01:30.850 --> 00:01:35.620 and the first thing that you're going to see is the Create Application button. 29 00:01:35.650 --> 00:01:40.620 So just click on that and let's continue with creating our application. 30 00:01:40.650 --> 00:01:45.930 I'm going to name this Altru donate as well as we did in the iOS version. 31 00:01:45.960 --> 00:01:49.620 So I'm going to say that this is an application and it's going to be free. 32 00:01:49.650 --> 00:01:52.660 And I'm going to accept all of the terms 33 00:01:52.690 --> 00:01:57.980 and agreements, and I'm going to click on Create the Application. 34 00:01:58.010 --> 00:02:03.420 Okay, so now you're going to see a bunch of tasks that we need to complete. 35 00:02:03.450 --> 00:02:06.930 And let's start with setting up our testers. 36 00:02:06.960 --> 00:02:13.380 I already have a group for the testers, and I created it and called it Myself. 37 00:02:13.410 --> 00:02:17.170 It only has one email there, so make sure that you create one. 38 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:20.580 If you don't know how to create it, just click on Create email list. 39 00:02:20.610 --> 00:02:27.540 I'm going to say that this is Myself 2.0, and you need to add an email address here. 40 00:02:27.570 --> 00:02:32.060 So I'm going to add this email address here. 41 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:35.170 Click on enter. It's going to be shown right here. 42 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:36.700 And then click on Save changes. 43 00:02:36.730 --> 00:02:40.860 Click on Create and the make sure to select this one. 44 00:02:40.890 --> 00:02:44.580 And then just click on Save. Great. 45 00:02:44.610 --> 00:02:47.540 So we can't create a new release yet. 46 00:02:47.570 --> 00:02:52.700 So just let's discard this for a bit and go to our dashboard and start 47 00:02:52.730 --> 00:02:56.060 completing our tasks to set up our application. 48 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:57.940 So there's a bunch of things that we need 49 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.610 to complete, and we're going to go through this super quickly. 50 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:03.260 So let's set privacy policy. 51 00:03:03.290 --> 00:03:07.960 I'm going to set it to my website. 52 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:09.700 You can set it to your website, 53 00:03:09.730 --> 00:03:14.500 but this actually will have to be a link to your privacy policy before you actually 54 00:03:14.530 --> 00:03:17.700 release your application to the production. 55 00:03:17.730 --> 00:03:19.720 So make sure that you set up some kind 56 00:03:19.750 --> 00:03:25.540 of page on a website that refers to the privacy policy for your application. 57 00:03:25.570 --> 00:03:27.860 But this will be enough for now. 58 00:03:27.890 --> 00:03:30.660 I'm going to click on save 59 00:03:30.690 --> 00:03:36.220 and then let's go to app access here and say that all functionality 60 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.900 in my application is going to be available without any access or restrictions. 61 00:03:39.930 --> 00:03:41.980 And let's click on save. 62 00:03:42.010 --> 00:03:45.500 Now let's go back and complete the ad 63 00:03:45.530 --> 00:03:51.180 section and say that no, we don't have any ads in our application and save this. 64 00:03:51.210 --> 00:03:56.610 Now let's go to the content rating and complete this questionnaire real quick. 65 00:03:56.640 --> 00:04:04.120 I'm going to enter my email address here and then I'm going to say that it's not 66 00:04:04.150 --> 00:04:09.020 a game, it's not a social or communication application, it's just other types of app. 67 00:04:09.050 --> 00:04:10.940 And then I'm going to click on next. 68 00:04:10.970 --> 00:04:14.260 These questions are mostly something 69 00:04:14.290 --> 00:04:18.500 that you can answer with no, I'm not going to go through all of the right now. 70 00:04:18.530 --> 00:04:23.660 I'm just going to click on an answer no to all of them and make sure that you read 71 00:04:23.690 --> 00:04:27.620 these questions and when you have a different application that you're 72 00:04:27.650 --> 00:04:31.980 deploying other than the donation application, we're uploading right now 73 00:04:32.010 --> 00:04:35.540 that these answers actually match your application. 74 00:04:35.570 --> 00:04:40.920 So I'm just going to say no to all of these right now. 75 00:04:40.960 --> 00:04:44.700 No, I'm going to save it. 76 00:04:44.720 --> 00:04:46.140 Click on next. 77 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:47.780 This was generated for me. 78 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:50.540 I'm just going to save it and great, this has been completed. 79 00:04:50.570 --> 00:04:53.160 Let's go back to our dashboard and go 80 00:04:53.190 --> 00:04:57.380 to target audience and say that everyone that's going to access our app is 18 81 00:04:57.410 --> 00:05:03.500 and over so that we have no more questions asked and I'll say that it will never 82 00:05:03.530 --> 00:05:07.860 appeal to children and I'm going to save this. 83 00:05:07.890 --> 00:05:10.060 Now let's go back to the dashboard and go 84 00:05:10.090 --> 00:05:15.340 to the news apps and say that no, we're not creating a news application. 85 00:05:15.360 --> 00:05:20.060 And now let's go to COVID-19 contact tracing and status apps and say 86 00:05:20.090 --> 00:05:25.820 that we're not tracing any kind of status for COVID-19 and then save this. 87 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:28.620 And let's go back to dashboard and do 88 00:05:28.650 --> 00:05:34.820 the data safety questionnaire and say that we're not collecting any kind of data. 89 00:05:34.850 --> 00:05:39.740 We technically are, but we don't want to answer too much questions right now. 90 00:05:39.760 --> 00:05:41.620 I'm just trying to show you how to deploy 91 00:05:41.650 --> 00:05:45.400 this application so you can answer these questions differently when you have 92 00:05:45.420 --> 00:05:50.460 a different application that you actually want to publish to the world. 93 00:05:50.480 --> 00:05:52.500 So let's go to government applications 94 00:05:52.530 --> 00:05:55.940 and say that, no, we're not a government application. 95 00:05:55.970 --> 00:05:58.700 Let's go back to the dashboard and then 96 00:05:58.730 --> 00:06:02.820 let's say that we want to select an app category and provide contact details. 97 00:06:02.850 --> 00:06:06.220 So just click on editing this section 98 00:06:06.250 --> 00:06:12.440 and we're going to say that it's an app and category is going to be? 99 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:14.460 I don't know, let's say just Lifestyle 100 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:19.100 for now and click on Save and then close this. 101 00:06:19.130 --> 00:06:22.300 And here we're going to need the contact details. 102 00:06:22.330 --> 00:06:26.860 So let's input my email here. 103 00:06:26.890 --> 00:06:30.340 You can enter your email, 104 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:35.540 and there's no other required information, so this should be sufficient. 105 00:06:35.570 --> 00:06:36.740 And once we have that, 106 00:06:36.770 --> 00:06:40.580 let's go back to the dashboard again and see what we have to complete. 107 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:43.140 And then we have to set up our store listing. 108 00:06:43.170 --> 00:06:47.260 So here we're going to have the application name already displayed. 109 00:06:47.290 --> 00:06:49.180 I'm just going to enter that 110 00:06:49.210 --> 00:06:53.060 this is a donation application in the short description. 111 00:06:53.090 --> 00:06:56.300 I'm going to inter some placeholder text 112 00:06:56.330 --> 00:07:01.500 for now in the full description here, we're going to have to upload graphics. 113 00:07:01.530 --> 00:07:04.460 And you can see attached files to this 114 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:08.180 video so that you don't have to get the graphics on your own. 115 00:07:08.210 --> 00:07:11.940 So for now, just download those files. 116 00:07:11.970 --> 00:07:16.180 I'm going to open the folder containing those files for myself. 117 00:07:16.210 --> 00:07:19.420 And I'm going to upload the Play store icon here. 118 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:21.020 This Play Store icons was actually 119 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:25.620 generated by Make App icon that we use in the previous videos. 120 00:07:25.650 --> 00:07:27.700 So I just grabbed it from there. 121 00:07:27.730 --> 00:07:31.140 For the feature graphic, I just grabbed something from the Internet. 122 00:07:31.170 --> 00:07:34.540 It's not really connected to our donation application 123 00:07:34.570 --> 00:07:39.540 I just got something that's 1024 by 500 pixels. 124 00:07:39.570 --> 00:07:42.500 So make sure that you have this whenever 125 00:07:42.530 --> 00:07:48.140 you try to upload application using fast lane, because these are the prerequisites. 126 00:07:48.170 --> 00:07:52.140 I'm just going to have these uploaded. Now, for the phone screenshots 127 00:07:52.170 --> 00:07:54.780 you can literally take screenshots of your 128 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:58.740 application in the Android simulator whenever you have that open. 129 00:07:58.770 --> 00:08:04.180 I already took two screenshots, so I'm going to drop them real quick here. 130 00:08:04.210 --> 00:08:09.740 These are also attached to the resources of this lecture, so you can find it there. 131 00:08:09.770 --> 00:08:11.940 And then these are not required because 132 00:08:11.960 --> 00:08:14.820 we're actually not going to be supporting Tablet or Chromebook. 133 00:08:14.850 --> 00:08:17.260 So I'm just going to click on Save here. 134 00:08:17.290 --> 00:08:21.700 And we have most of the things that we need done right here. 135 00:08:21.730 --> 00:08:25.220 So now let's go back to the documentation. 136 00:08:25.250 --> 00:08:27.220 I'm going to close this. 137 00:08:27.250 --> 00:08:32.420 And here we see that we have created the application in Google Play Console, 138 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:37.140 and now we need to use the git ignore file and place it inside the Android directory. 139 00:08:37.170 --> 00:08:39.100 So I'm going to click on this, 140 00:08:39.130 --> 00:08:43.380 and then I'm going to open our project in the webstorm editor. 141 00:08:43.410 --> 00:08:47.980 You can also open your project in any editor that you like. 142 00:08:48.010 --> 00:08:52.380 And here I'm going to just create a new 143 00:08:52.410 --> 00:08:56.460 Git ignore file inside the Android folder as I suggested. 144 00:08:56.490 --> 00:09:01.780 I'm going to create this file and call it Git ignore. 145 00:09:01.810 --> 00:09:05.740 And then I'm going to just click on raw 146 00:09:05.770 --> 00:09:10.580 here, copy these, and paste it here and save it. 147 00:09:10.600 --> 00:09:12.740 Great. So now we have the Get ignore file inside 148 00:09:12.770 --> 00:09:19.140 the Android directory, and we need to start setting up our Google credentials. 149 00:09:19.170 --> 00:09:22.260 So now just follow me because we are going 150 00:09:22.290 --> 00:09:27.820 to go a little different route than this outdated documentation, unfortunately. 151 00:09:27.850 --> 00:09:31.620 So let's just go to Google Play Console. 152 00:09:31.650 --> 00:09:36.460 I'm going to go here and I'm going to go to all of the applications. 153 00:09:36.490 --> 00:09:38.580 And here in the setup section, 154 00:09:38.610 --> 00:09:42.660 you're going to see API Access and just click on that. 155 00:09:42.690 --> 00:09:46.420 Now let's talk about what API access is. 156 00:09:46.440 --> 00:09:52.420 API access to Google Services enables developers to integrate Google Services 157 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:56.740 into their own applications, websites, or software solutions. 158 00:09:56.770 --> 00:10:01.060 And by leveraging these APIs, developers can retrieve data, 159 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:05.580 perform actions, and interact with Google Services programmatically. 160 00:10:05.610 --> 00:10:07.460 And to gain access to a specific 161 00:10:07.490 --> 00:10:12.180 Google Service API, we typically need to obtain an API key or 162 00:10:12.200 --> 00:10:14.300 credentials from the Google Developer Console. 163 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:16.780 And these key or credentials serve as 164 00:10:16.810 --> 00:10:22.620 an authentication mechanism allowing us and our applications to make requests 165 00:10:22.650 --> 00:10:27.020 to the desired APIs and access the associated resources. 166 00:10:27.040 --> 00:10:28.740 And if we don't know how to do that, 167 00:10:28.770 --> 00:10:32.820 there's a button here that says learn how to create service accounts. 168 00:10:32.850 --> 00:10:37.020 Now we're going to need to go to Google Platform, and if you don't have 169 00:10:37.050 --> 00:10:41.700 a Google Platform account, just create an account using the same 170 00:10:41.730 --> 00:10:45.740 email address that you used for the Google Play Console 171 00:10:45.770 --> 00:10:49.060 and I'm sure you can just login in with that address even. 172 00:10:49.080 --> 00:10:52.220 So just go to Google Cloud Console. 173 00:10:52.250 --> 00:10:56.740 And I already have some service accounts set up here, 174 00:10:56.770 --> 00:11:03.620 but I am going to create a new one and I'm going to call it Altru Donate. 175 00:11:03.650 --> 00:11:06.660 And then I'm going to click on Create and continue. 176 00:11:06.690 --> 00:11:09.780 And I'm going to grant myself the owner 177 00:11:09.810 --> 00:11:13.300 role so that I can do anything that I'd like with this API 178 00:11:13.330 --> 00:11:15.060 and I'm not restricted anyhow. 179 00:11:15.080 --> 00:11:18.700 I'm going to continue and I'm going to click on Done. 180 00:11:18.730 --> 00:11:21.980 And once I do that, you're going to see this appear here. 181 00:11:22.010 --> 00:11:26.420 And what I want to do is go to Manage Keys 182 00:11:26.450 --> 00:11:32.380 and the Add a new key and create a JSON key and click on Create. 183 00:11:32.410 --> 00:11:36.540 And that is going to be just downloaded directly to your downloads folder. 184 00:11:36.570 --> 00:11:38.460 And we're not going to use it yet. 185 00:11:38.490 --> 00:11:41.460 Let's just go to the API Access here, 186 00:11:41.490 --> 00:11:45.020 click on Done, and once you click on it, this should auto Refresh. 187 00:11:45.040 --> 00:11:46.980 But if it doesn't and you don't see your 188 00:11:47.010 --> 00:11:51.420 key appear here, just click on Refresh Yourself and it's going to appear there. 189 00:11:51.450 --> 00:11:56.340 Now, let's click on this button that says manage play Console permissions. 190 00:11:56.370 --> 00:12:00.220 And then let's make sure that we have all of the permissions that we need. 191 00:12:00.250 --> 00:12:02.060 And then let's go to Add permissions 192 00:12:02.080 --> 00:12:06.020 and make sure that we add our Altru donate application here as well. 193 00:12:06.050 --> 00:12:09.700 Let's click on Apply and Apply and let's 194 00:12:09.730 --> 00:12:12.740 invite the user and then let's send the invite. 195 00:12:12.770 --> 00:12:14.460 Now with this API access key, 196 00:12:14.490 --> 00:12:19.140 we can connect to our application and create Deploys using the fast lane. 197 00:12:19.170 --> 00:12:23.900 So now let's go to all of the applications and go to our Altru donate application 198 00:12:23.930 --> 00:12:27.940 and we're going to come back to uploading a new version here soon. 199 00:12:27.970 --> 00:12:31.380 Now it's time to start setting up our fastlane. 200 00:12:31.410 --> 00:12:38.100 So for that let's go to terminal and let's navigate to our donation project. 201 00:12:38.130 --> 00:12:42.100 It's called Donation App and actually it's inside the desktop. 202 00:12:42.130 --> 00:12:44.740 So let me make sure I mentioned this. 203 00:12:44.770 --> 00:12:49.040 And then I'm going to have to go to the Android folder and once I'm there, 204 00:12:49.070 --> 00:12:53.260 I'm just going to clear my terminal so that you see what I'm doing clearly. 205 00:12:53.290 --> 00:12:58.140 Okay, now let's run fastlane init command so that we initialize the fast 206 00:12:58.170 --> 00:13:04.840 lane and let's say that our package name is com donation app vache and we don't 207 00:13:04.870 --> 00:13:10.020 have the secret file and no, we don't need to download existing metadata. 208 00:13:10.050 --> 00:13:11.380 That's okay. 209 00:13:11.410 --> 00:13:15.260 Now let's wait for this to finish up and let's click on Enter. 210 00:13:15.290 --> 00:13:19.220 Let's click on Enter and that's it, we're done. 211 00:13:19.250 --> 00:13:25.860 Okay, so now once we have this, we're going to have to test our JSON key 212 00:13:25.890 --> 00:13:29.980 and validate that it can connect to the Google Play Store. 213 00:13:30.010 --> 00:13:36.700 So to do that actually I'm going to drag the downloaded JSON key file and place it 214 00:13:36.730 --> 00:13:40.580 inside the Android folder and I'm going to click on Refactor. 215 00:13:40.610 --> 00:13:43.860 That's fine. I'm going to add this to GitHub as well. 216 00:13:43.890 --> 00:13:48.860 And then what I'm going to do is run a command here that is going to be called 217 00:13:48.890 --> 00:13:54.180 fastlane run validate play store key, 218 00:13:54.210 --> 00:13:59.900 JSON key and the JSON key path is going 219 00:13:59.930 --> 00:14:04.260 to be let's make sure that we can get this name here. 220 00:14:04.290 --> 00:14:08.440 I'm going to click on Rename and I'm just going to copy this and then I'm going 221 00:14:08.470 --> 00:14:11.820 to reopen my terminal and I'm going to paste it here. 222 00:14:11.850 --> 00:14:13.860 And then I'm going to click on Enter. 223 00:14:13.890 --> 00:14:18.740 Okay, so we can successfully establish connection to Google Play Store. 224 00:14:18.770 --> 00:14:24.260 And now we know that our JSON key file that we generated works. 225 00:14:24.290 --> 00:14:26.020 Okay, so that's great. 226 00:14:26.050 --> 00:14:28.620 Now we are going to need to generate 227 00:14:28.650 --> 00:14:36.060 a sign in key which will allow us to set up a password for keystore and the key 228 00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:40.860 for that we're going to have to find our JDK path where it's installed. 229 00:14:40.890 --> 00:14:51.780 And to do that just run user and then libexec and then Java home. 230 00:14:51.810 --> 00:14:56.100 Okay, so this will give you a path to where your JDK is installed. 231 00:14:56.130 --> 00:15:01.940 So just copy this and once you do that, let's just go to this file. 232 00:15:01.970 --> 00:15:05.540 So let's just do CD and then paste this 233 00:15:05.560 --> 00:15:08.380 and we're going to change directory and we're going to get there. 234 00:15:08.410 --> 00:15:11.220 So now we're inside the home folder 235 00:15:11.250 --> 00:15:14.940 and here we're going to run this command given here. 236 00:15:14.970 --> 00:15:20.460 So let's search for this and generate a signing key. 237 00:15:20.490 --> 00:15:26.860 So just copy this and the just paste it here. 238 00:15:26.890 --> 00:15:34.540 This will generate my release keystore file with the alias of my key alias. 239 00:15:34.570 --> 00:15:40.740 So let's just click on Enter and then let's create some keystore password. 240 00:15:40.770 --> 00:15:42.260 I'm going to enter mine. 241 00:15:42.290 --> 00:15:43.900 You can enter yours. 242 00:15:43.920 --> 00:15:45.320 By the way, when you're going to be 243 00:15:45.320 --> 00:15:48.380 typing, you're not going to be string it and that's totally fine. 244 00:15:48.410 --> 00:15:51.700 Your input is taken into consideration anyways. 245 00:15:51.730 --> 00:15:55.940 And I'm going to reenter my password here 246 00:15:55.970 --> 00:16:00.020 and I'm going to say that my first name and last name is Nata Vacheishvili. 247 00:16:00.050 --> 00:16:05.260 And I'm not going to answer any of these questions, and I'm going to say yes here. 248 00:16:05.290 --> 00:16:07.900 Okay, so this file has been created. 249 00:16:07.930 --> 00:16:14.420 Now we're going to need to locate that file and actually move it to our project. 250 00:16:14.450 --> 00:16:19.660 And that file will need to be moved to Android app folder given here. 251 00:16:19.690 --> 00:16:23.460 So first we're going to have to locate this file, right? 252 00:16:23.490 --> 00:16:29.460 Let's just copy the path to our JDK one more time. 253 00:16:29.490 --> 00:16:32.660 And on your Mac just open the finder. 254 00:16:32.690 --> 00:16:37.860 And once you open this, you can just click on Go and then go 255 00:16:37.890 --> 00:16:42.340 to folder and the just paste this here and click on Enter. 256 00:16:42.370 --> 00:16:48.100 Once you click on Enter, you're going to see my release key store generated here. 257 00:16:48.130 --> 00:16:50.260 So just grab that file and more. 258 00:16:50.290 --> 00:16:56.140 It inside the app folder of your Android directory and great. 259 00:16:56.170 --> 00:16:57.500 So now this is added there. 260 00:16:57.530 --> 00:17:00.860 I don't need this finder anymore. 261 00:17:00.890 --> 00:17:08.530 And once we have this file, we're going to need to edit our Gradle Properties. 262 00:17:08.560 --> 00:17:10.800 So let's go to Gradle Properties file. 263 00:17:10.830 --> 00:17:13.770 This is directly inside the Android 264 00:17:13.800 --> 00:17:16.380 folder, so just click on that and open that up. 265 00:17:16.410 --> 00:17:20.810 And here we're going to set up some constants that we can use in our project. 266 00:17:20.840 --> 00:17:26.460 So the first constant that we're going to set up is going to be for our store 267 00:17:26.490 --> 00:17:31.770 file, which is a binary file that contains a private key used to sign the app. 268 00:17:31.800 --> 00:17:36.180 It is typically created using the Java key tool that we just used. 269 00:17:36.210 --> 00:17:38.420 So the store file should be kept secure 270 00:17:38.450 --> 00:17:43.010 and backed up as it is required to sign future updates of the application. 271 00:17:43.040 --> 00:17:47.330 So make sure that you don't commit this to your GitHub. 272 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:52.290 Okay, so now let's do my App upload store file. 273 00:17:52.320 --> 00:18:01.740 And let's say that this is going to be my release keystore file. 274 00:18:01.770 --> 00:18:06.290 Now we're going to need a second constant that is going to be my. 275 00:18:06.320 --> 00:18:10.220 App upload key alias. 276 00:18:10.250 --> 00:18:16.770 And we know that our key alias was set to MyKey alias here. 277 00:18:16.800 --> 00:18:20.980 So let's just copy this and paste it here. 278 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:24.420 And then we're going to need some constants for our passwords as well. 279 00:18:24.450 --> 00:18:29.010 So let's set up my app upload store password. 280 00:18:29.040 --> 00:18:33.010 So these two constants are going to be 281 00:18:33.040 --> 00:18:35.660 the passwords that you created in the terminal. 282 00:18:35.690 --> 00:18:43.810 So let's create a second one called my app upload key password. 283 00:18:43.840 --> 00:18:47.290 Great. Okay, so I'm going to set up my passwords 284 00:18:47.320 --> 00:18:50.290 right now and you're not going to be seeing it. 285 00:18:50.320 --> 00:18:53.570 Just enter your passwords as well and come back to the video. 286 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:53.900 Great. 287 00:18:53.930 --> 00:18:58.090 So make sure that you have that file saved before continuing. 288 00:18:58.120 --> 00:19:05.460 And now let's talk a bit about why we needed to set up signing at all. 289 00:19:05.490 --> 00:19:09.420 So signing in the context of app development refers to the process 290 00:19:09.450 --> 00:19:15.050 of digitally signing an Android application file using cryptographic key, 291 00:19:15.080 --> 00:19:19.860 and the signing process ensures the integrity and authenticity of the app. 292 00:19:19.890 --> 00:19:25.660 So now that we have all of our constants set up, we're going to have to go 293 00:19:25.690 --> 00:19:31.810 to the build gradle file inside our application and start modifying it. 294 00:19:31.840 --> 00:19:36.220 So here you see that we have the signing config set up for debugging purposes, 295 00:19:36.250 --> 00:19:40.250 but we're going to be using Fast lane for releasing our application. 296 00:19:40.280 --> 00:19:43.770 So we need to create a release signing config as well. 297 00:19:43.800 --> 00:19:48.770 So let's just copy this and paste it here and modify this. 298 00:19:48.800 --> 00:19:53.720 Okay, so I'm going to format this a little bit better. 299 00:19:55.160 --> 00:19:56.810 And here in this store file, 300 00:19:56.840 --> 00:20:06.330 I'm going to use our My app upload store file constant that we created together. 301 00:20:06.360 --> 00:20:15.570 For the store password, we're going to use My app upload store password. 302 00:20:15.600 --> 00:20:18.140 For the key alias, we're going to use our 303 00:20:18.170 --> 00:20:27.770 Constants again and say that we're using My app upload key alias. 304 00:20:27.800 --> 00:20:35.330 And then for the key password, we're going to use My app upload key password. 305 00:20:35.360 --> 00:20:37.180 Great. Now let's save this. 306 00:20:37.210 --> 00:20:39.570 And we're going to have to do one more thing. 307 00:20:39.600 --> 00:20:41.860 Inside the build types here we have 308 00:20:41.890 --> 00:20:45.940 the signing config for debug created, but for releasing. 309 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:47.530 We're not going to be using signing 310 00:20:47.560 --> 00:20:51.660 configs for debug anymore because we just created the one for release. 311 00:20:51.690 --> 00:20:54.740 Actually, let me rename this to release. 312 00:20:54.770 --> 00:21:00.500 And here let's use the release signing config. 313 00:21:00.530 --> 00:21:04.570 Great. So one thing I forgot in the last video 314 00:21:04.600 --> 00:21:09.250 after editing all of our files was that I didn't change a folder name 315 00:21:09.280 --> 00:21:14.290 for the release inside the source release here, 316 00:21:14.320 --> 00:21:19.940 I only changed it for the debugging and main application. 317 00:21:19.970 --> 00:21:21.980 So let's see the one here as well. 318 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.800 So this is called donation app vache. 319 00:21:23.830 --> 00:21:27.660 But if I go to the release section, I want to rename this donation app 320 00:21:27.690 --> 00:21:32.570 to match with donation app vache so that we have no problems. 321 00:21:32.600 --> 00:21:36.500 And inside this react native flipper file, I want to make sure that the package 322 00:21:36.530 --> 00:21:41.220 that we import here is also called donation app vache. 323 00:21:41.250 --> 00:21:44.810 Okay, great. So now we can start preparing 324 00:21:44.840 --> 00:21:48.900 for uploading our application on Google Play Store already. 325 00:21:48.930 --> 00:21:51.620 The thing is that for creating the first 326 00:21:51.650 --> 00:21:56.980 beta build, we have to upload it into Google Play console manually. 327 00:21:57.010 --> 00:21:59.740 So we're going to have to do this manually 328 00:21:59.770 --> 00:22:03.180 first, and then we can use fastlane to do this. 329 00:22:03.210 --> 00:22:05.740 So for that, let's open a new terminal. 330 00:22:05.770 --> 00:22:11.420 Let's go to the donation app Android file. Great. 331 00:22:11.450 --> 00:22:15.460 I'm going to clear my terminal so that you see everything that I do clearly. 332 00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:20.940 And what I'm going to do is use gradlew clean so that we start fresh 333 00:22:20.970 --> 00:22:25.810 and we don't have any build caches missing with our release bundle. 334 00:22:25.840 --> 00:22:26.420 Great. 335 00:22:26.450 --> 00:22:30.810 So now what we need to do is run gradlew bundleRelease. 336 00:22:30.840 --> 00:22:33.940 And this will generate an AAB file. 337 00:22:33.970 --> 00:22:39.760 And this AAB file is something that we're going to use for our first release. 338 00:22:39.800 --> 00:22:42.740 So we can already go to our dashboard. 339 00:22:42.770 --> 00:22:47.900 And if this runs successfully, we're going to be able to create a new release. 340 00:22:47.930 --> 00:22:49.290 This might take some time, 341 00:22:49.320 --> 00:22:53.460 so you can wait for it and come back to the video once you're ready. 342 00:22:53.480 --> 00:22:56.090 Great. So now our application has successfully 343 00:22:56.120 --> 00:23:01.180 bundled up and if we go here, we're going to see a new folder appear 344 00:23:01.210 --> 00:23:05.810 here called Build inside Android Directory App and then Build. 345 00:23:05.840 --> 00:23:07.810 And if you open this up and open 346 00:23:07.840 --> 00:23:14.460 the outputs and then Bundle and Release here, you're going to see App Release AAB 347 00:23:14.480 --> 00:23:18.050 file, which is what we're going to use to manually upload the build of our 348 00:23:18.080 --> 00:23:21.620 application inside the Google Play Console. 349 00:23:21.650 --> 00:23:28.570 So let's create a new release and click on Create a new Release 350 00:23:28.600 --> 00:23:33.900 and let's drop this file here and wait for the upload to complete. 351 00:23:33.930 --> 00:23:38.140 Great. Now this is already uploaded so we can use 352 00:23:38.170 --> 00:23:44.290 our release name and actually name it 1.0 and then click on Next. 353 00:23:44.320 --> 00:23:47.180 Here you're going to see some warnings pop 354 00:23:47.210 --> 00:23:51.380 up, but these are not important, so don't pay attention to this. 355 00:23:51.410 --> 00:23:52.540 These are not errors. 356 00:23:52.570 --> 00:23:54.500 We can still release our application. 357 00:23:54.530 --> 00:23:55.980 So just click on save. 358 00:23:56.010 --> 00:23:59.290 And now this is available to Internal Testers. 359 00:23:59.320 --> 00:24:01.960 Now the next step is to make sure that we 360 00:24:01.990 --> 00:24:08.180 can use Fastlane to upload our applications and our application since we 361 00:24:08.210 --> 00:24:12.900 have only first release to internal testers is now in the Draft mode. 362 00:24:12.930 --> 00:24:14.740 And to ensure that this is not 363 00:24:14.760 --> 00:24:17.700 in the Draft node, what we're going to have to do is promote 364 00:24:17.730 --> 00:24:23.380 the release to close testing and this will create alpha version of our application 365 00:24:23.410 --> 00:24:25.620 and we're going to move from the Draft 366 00:24:25.650 --> 00:24:30.380 mode to the alpha mode, which is something that we need to ensure 367 00:24:30.410 --> 00:24:35.660 that we can use Fastlane for uploading our subsequent newer version. 368 00:24:35.690 --> 00:24:42.620 So I'm going to click on this and submit it. 369 00:24:42.650 --> 00:24:45.220 And here you're going to see errors and if 370 00:24:45.240 --> 00:24:48.380 you don't resolve those errors, you're not going to be able to continue. 371 00:24:48.410 --> 00:24:50.570 So let's see what errors we have. 372 00:24:50.600 --> 00:24:55.620 First of all, our application has to target this and we 373 00:24:55.650 --> 00:24:58.980 should declare the use of advertising ID in Play Console. 374 00:24:59.010 --> 00:25:01.860 So let's complete the declaration and say 375 00:25:01.890 --> 00:25:06.660 that we don't have any advertising ID and then save this. 376 00:25:06.690 --> 00:25:10.220 Once you do that, let's go back to the App content. 377 00:25:10.240 --> 00:25:11.420 Actually, we're going to have to go 378 00:25:11.450 --> 00:25:16.460 to Dashboard ourselves and then close Testing 379 00:25:16.490 --> 00:25:22.020 and let's click on Manage Track and go to our Draft Release and click on Editing 380 00:25:22.050 --> 00:25:26.050 the release and let's click on Next again and go back here. 381 00:25:26.080 --> 00:25:28.540 And now we have one more error that says 382 00:25:28.570 --> 00:25:31.940 no countries or regions have been selected for this track. 383 00:25:31.970 --> 00:25:34.090 So we're going to have to do that. 384 00:25:34.120 --> 00:25:37.860 Let's go to the Dashboard again 385 00:25:37.890 --> 00:25:44.420 and select the countries and regions and let's go to add countries and Regions. 386 00:25:44.450 --> 00:25:49.620 And here I'm just going to select all of the countries and click on Save. 387 00:25:49.650 --> 00:25:53.620 Great. Now let's continue editing our release 388 00:25:53.650 --> 00:25:57.140 and click on Next and you're going to see these errors disappear. 389 00:25:57.170 --> 00:26:00.500 And we only have four warnings here that we can also discard. 390 00:26:00.530 --> 00:26:04.740 So let's just click on Save and great. 391 00:26:04.770 --> 00:26:07.040 So now we are in the alpha mode. 392 00:26:07.070 --> 00:26:09.260 We're not in the draft mode anymore. 393 00:26:09.290 --> 00:26:16.380 Therefore, we can already start uploading our application using Fastlane. 394 00:26:16.410 --> 00:26:19.620 So before we do that, there's one thing we have to do. 395 00:26:19.650 --> 00:26:22.290 Let's go to the app file here and make 396 00:26:22.320 --> 00:26:27.020 sure that we have the path to our JSON key file set up. 397 00:26:27.050 --> 00:26:30.020 And let's make sure that we grab the name of this. 398 00:26:30.050 --> 00:26:37.800 I'm going to click on Rename again, copy this name and paste it here. 399 00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:39.380 Okay, let's save this. 400 00:26:39.410 --> 00:26:42.780 And now let's go to our Fastfile. 401 00:26:42.810 --> 00:26:45.740 And here you're going to see the deploy 402 00:26:45.770 --> 00:26:49.540 lane, which is what we're going to use for deploying our application. 403 00:26:49.570 --> 00:26:54.260 But instead of assemble release which generates APK files, 404 00:26:54.290 --> 00:27:01.330 we need to write bundle release so that we generate AAB files because APK files are 405 00:27:01.360 --> 00:27:05.900 not accepted by Google Play Console anymore because they have been deprecated. 406 00:27:05.930 --> 00:27:11.180 So for upload to Play Store, we're going to need some arguments. 407 00:27:11.210 --> 00:27:13.500 So let's create those. 408 00:27:13.530 --> 00:27:20.570 Let's say that we are uploading our new build to the track that is internal. 409 00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:23.400 Let's save this 410 00:27:23.800 --> 00:27:30.810 and make sure also that our version is increased in our build gradle file. 411 00:27:30.840 --> 00:27:32.860 Because if we don't increase the version, 412 00:27:32.890 --> 00:27:36.900 then we're not going to be able to complete the deployment. 413 00:27:36.930 --> 00:27:42.380 Every version that we're going to release will have to have its own version code 414 00:27:42.410 --> 00:27:47.900 and version name that is unique compared to the ones that we have already uploaded. 415 00:27:47.930 --> 00:27:50.570 So to do that, we're going to have to go 416 00:27:50.600 --> 00:27:55.260 to the build gradle file inside the Android app directory. 417 00:27:55.290 --> 00:27:58.220 And here you're going to see version code and version name. 418 00:27:58.250 --> 00:28:01.260 Let's just change our version code to 2 419 00:28:01.290 --> 00:28:04.260 and change our version name to 2 as well. 420 00:28:04.280 --> 00:28:08.090 And this is something that you will always have to do manually, unfortunately, 421 00:28:08.120 --> 00:28:15.260 before creating and uploading the build using fatlane. In the iOS, 422 00:28:15.290 --> 00:28:19.260 this is handled automatically and it is incremented automatically, 423 00:28:19.290 --> 00:28:21.500 but for Android, unfortunately, 424 00:28:21.530 --> 00:28:24.570 you're going to have to do this manually every time. 425 00:28:24.600 --> 00:28:29.220 Now I think that we are ready for our upload process. 426 00:28:29.250 --> 00:28:31.660 So let's open a terminal. 427 00:28:31.690 --> 00:28:35.290 We're inside the Android folder already. If you're not, 428 00:28:35.320 --> 00:28:39.660 just navigate to the Android folder of your project and here just type 429 00:28:39.690 --> 00:28:45.620 in Fastlane Deploy and click on Enter and wait for it to complete. 430 00:28:45.650 --> 00:28:47.540 This will take some time, 431 00:28:47.570 --> 00:28:52.900 so just be patient and come back to the video once you're done. 432 00:28:52.920 --> 00:28:55.140 Great. So our Fastlane tools finished 433 00:28:55.170 --> 00:28:59.900 successfully and our new version of the application has been uploaded using 434 00:28:59.930 --> 00:29:02.420 automated deployment system that we just set up. 435 00:29:02.450 --> 00:29:07.540 So if we go to the Altru donate application for the Google Play Console 436 00:29:07.570 --> 00:29:12.860 website and refresh this page inside the internal testing tab, 437 00:29:12.890 --> 00:29:16.290 you're going to see that you have 2.0 version available. 438 00:29:16.320 --> 00:29:20.050 So if you want to deploy newer versions of your application. 439 00:29:20.080 --> 00:29:24.810 After you make some changes, make sure to change the version code 440 00:29:24.840 --> 00:29:30.330 and version name and update it and just do Fastlane deploy and it should complete 441 00:29:30.360 --> 00:29:33.660 successfully and it will be inside the internal testing. 442 00:29:33.680 --> 00:29:36.220 Now, if you're going to want to release this to production, 443 00:29:36.250 --> 00:29:40.220 you're just going to go to production, create a new release, 444 00:29:40.250 --> 00:29:44.220 and then you're going to add the builds from the library, 445 00:29:44.250 --> 00:29:51.140 select the one that you want to release, name the release, click on Next, 446 00:29:51.170 --> 00:29:57.220 and then you're going to submit it to the Google Play console for a review. 447 00:29:57.240 --> 00:29:58.620 And you're going to have to select 448 00:29:58.650 --> 00:30:01.940 the countries and regions for the production mode again. 449 00:30:01.970 --> 00:30:03.810 But this is something easy to do. 450 00:30:03.840 --> 00:30:04.940 You can just do it yourself. 451 00:30:04.960 --> 00:30:07.810 But I'm not going to be actually submitting this to production. 452 00:30:07.840 --> 00:30:08.940 I don't want to do that. 453 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:11.700 But this is how you are going to do it if you're interested. 454 00:30:11.730 --> 00:30:14.700 Now, if you want to test this, 455 00:30:14.730 --> 00:30:20.700 you're going to have to go to the testers tab and you're going to copy the link. 456 00:30:20.730 --> 00:30:25.570 And if you go here, you're going to see the application. 457 00:30:25.600 --> 00:30:30.620 Now we're not logged in from the actual phone, but if you were logged 458 00:30:30.650 --> 00:30:35.700 in from the phone into the Google Play Store account using 459 00:30:35.730 --> 00:30:41.940 the email that we set up here inside the Internal testers, you're going to be able 460 00:30:41.970 --> 00:30:46.260 to download this application and actually test it on your device. 461 00:30:46.290 --> 00:30:48.090 So if you're going to share this 462 00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:51.940 application to your friends, just make sure that you have included 463 00:30:51.970 --> 00:30:56.330 their email addresses here and that they are logged in with the same email address 464 00:30:56.360 --> 00:30:58.980 in the Google Play Store account on their phone. 465 00:30:59.010 --> 00:31:04.940 And once they go to this link that you can again find here inside the testers 466 00:31:04.970 --> 00:31:09.900 and then copy the link here and send it to your friends, they're going to be able 467 00:31:09.930 --> 00:31:13.660 to see this application and test it out on their real device. 468 00:31:13.690 --> 00:31:16.050 And you can do so for yourself as well 469 00:31:16.080 --> 00:31:20.700 and see how Altru donate looks on the actual device. 470 00:31:20.730 --> 00:31:22.740 So this is it my friends. 471 00:31:22.770 --> 00:31:25.420 I know we spent a lot of time setting this 472 00:31:25.450 --> 00:31:31.220 up, but in the future it's going to save you a lot of time when you are going 473 00:31:31.250 --> 00:31:35.500 to want to release new builds to the Google Play Store. 474 00:31:35.530 --> 00:31:37.780 Plus, this setup is something important. 475 00:31:37.810 --> 00:31:39.290 Many companies use it. 476 00:31:39.320 --> 00:31:43.700 So if you're going to see your company use Fastlane, you're going to know how it 477 00:31:43.730 --> 00:31:48.290 functions internally and why they needed it in the first place. 478 00:31:48.320 --> 00:31:49.290 So that's all. 479 00:31:49.320 --> 00:31:52.540 Thank you so much for watching and going through this tutorial. 480 00:31:52.570 --> 00:31:54.380 I hope you find it useful. 481 00:31:54.410 --> 00:31:57.020 Now your application can be deployed using 482 00:31:57.050 --> 00:32:01.460 automated deployment system of Fastlane both on iOS and Android. 483 00:32:01.490 --> 00:32:04.700 And this is a huge achievement and a big knowledge to be honest. 484 00:32:04.730 --> 00:32:07.960 So good job to you and I'll see you in the next video.