Automate publishing release notes to the Google Play Store
On every app release, we publish release notes and it’s a manual process we do every release. We can automate the process by setting up Gradle Play Publisher plugin.
- Add languages go to Store Presence -> Store Listing -> and add the Language.
- Configured Gradle Play Publisher.
- Create a new directory and files “default.txt” for each language supported by your Android application.
src/[sourceSet]/main/play/release-notes/[language]/default.txt
main/play/release-notes/en-US/default.txt
main/play/release-notes/es-419/default.txt
3. Run Gradle task: ./gradlew publishReleaseBundle
Note: if the Gradle task is not running, run ./gradlew tasks --all, if you can’t see publish task make sure to configure Gradle Play Publisher correctly.
Thanks for reading. I started to publish my daily notes. Let me know if I’m wrong somewhere or if there’s something that could do differently or better. I’m open to your feedback 🙌🏻
Andres
Notes: To add more languages to your app “Store Listing” you need to add the language on the Google Play Market settings:
References:
Free online translator for release notes: https://www.iwantanelephant.com/release-notes-creation/
GPP: https://github.com/Triple-T/gradle-play-publisher#snapshot-builds
