Publish to google play

Adding a launcher icon

• To customize the app icon, you might want to open the assets/icon/logo.png file and replace your app icon.

• Then cross-check the file image name in the pubspec.yaml

flutter_icons:
  android: true
  ios: true
  image_path: "assets/icon/logo.png"

• Then run the following command in your terminal

$flutter pub run flutter_launcher_icons:main

• After successfully creating the icon you will get the following message

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     FLUTTER LAUNCHER ICONS (v0.8.0)                               
  ════════════════════════════════════════════
• Creating default icons Android
• Overwriting the default Android launcher icon with a new icon
• Overwriting default iOS launcher icon with new icon

✓ Successfully generated launcher icons

Reviewing the app manifest

• Review the default App Manifest file, AndroidManifest.xml, located in [project]/android/app/src/main and verify that the values are correct, especially the following:

Appname

• Edit the android:label in the application tag to reflect the final name of the app.

Change the App bundle ID

• Change the package name in your AndroidManifest.xml

• Open the [project]/android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and change the package name com.bookstore.book into your bundle Id

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.bookstore.book">

• Open the [project]/android/app/build.gradle and under the defaultConfig change the applicationId com.bookstore.book into your applicationId

applicationId "com.bookstore.book"

• Open the [project]/android/app/src/debug/AndroidManifest.xml and change the package name com.bookstore.book into your bundle Id

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.bookstore.book">

• Open the [project]/android/app/src/main/kotlin/com/example/appname/MainActivity.kt and change the package name com.bookstore.book into your package name

package com.bookstore.book

• Open the [project]/android/app/src/profile/AndroidManifest.xml and change the package name com.bookstore.book into your bundle Id

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    package="com.bookstore.book">

Building the app for release

You have two possible release formats when publishing to the Play Store.

• App bundle (preferred)

• APK

Build an app bundle

• Enter cd [project]

• Run flutter build appbundle

• The release bundle for your app is created at /build/app/outputs/bundle/release/app.aab

Build an APK

From the command line

• Enter cd [Project]

• Run flutter build apk

• Now we have our release APK ready for the Google Play Store.

• To release the app to the play store kindly follow this instructions

Publishing to the Google Play Store