Brand New Flutter APP Publish and Update via Google PlayStore

In that article we will learn how to publish and update a brand new Flutter project to the Google Play Store.

Before we start, I assume that you had coded and successfully tested your Flutter app and are ready to share it with other Android users.

First of all, you need to create a Google Developer Account in the Google Developer Console.

It is necessary to become a paid member of the Play Store with your Google account, estimated prices is 25 dollars per year.

Now, we are ready to start.

1) Open Flutter project and click on File → New → Import project on Android Studio

👁 Importing Flutter project on Android

2) Find your Flutter project structured folder and open it from the "android" folder.

👁 Opening Flutter project from Android folder

3) Click on Build→ Generate Signed Apk

👁 generating signed bundle

4) Give Keystore file name with a path as shown below and fill up all the information 

👁 adding keystore filename

5) Give Keystore your password. Please keep this file in safe because we cannot upload a new version if the file is lost. Then, click on the Next button.

👁 Setting password in KeyStore

6) Click on both the checkbox, as shown below, select "release", and click on the Finish button.

👁 Clicking "release" and the "finish" button

7) It will generate the release APK. After that, go to the play store console and click on "App releases".

Select your app, and then click on App Releases.

👁 Selecting your app

8) Click on the Production Manage button

👁 Selecting Production Manage button

9) Now click on the "Create release" option.

👁 Creating release

10) Click on the Continue button

👁 Clicking continue button

11) Just click on accept button

👁 Accepting Google Play terms of service

12) Upload the generated release APK here.

👁 Uploading generated APK

13) Enter the release notes and click on the Save button.

👁 Entering release notes and hitting save

14) Now go to App content and fill out the information related to the application and click on the next button.

👁 Filling out related application information and clicking next

15) After filling out the details, click on the submit button.

👁 submitting app

16) Then, go to Pricing and Distribution 

👁 Setting pricing and distribution

17) Fill out the information related to the application, as shown below, and click on the Save Draft button.

👁 Saving draft

👁 Final distribution information

18) Now, go to the content rating and fill the contact details and select application category

👁 Filling out content rating

19) Select answer, as shown below then go to next and apply the content rating

👁 filling out content rating

👁 filling out content rating

20) Now go to store presence and then store listing and fill the application details and upload icons as shown below

👁 Adding title and description

21) If you're using any permission then include a privacy policy link as below and click on Save button

👁 Creating privacy policy

22) Now, again go to Release management and select the release you have created and click on Start Rollout to Production

👁 Rolling out to production

Updating the Application

After your app released to store you may need to update it. Lets see how can you handle that.

1) Follow steps 1 & 2 at previous section and Go to Android → App → build.gradle file and increment the version name and version count

👁 Updating version number

2) Again, generate the Signed APK by following previous steps and this time it will automatically fill out previous Keystore details and click on Next button and follow previous steps and it will generate APK

👁 Generating new APK

3) Go to Playstore console and Release Management -> App Releases and Click on Create Release and upload new APK, add new release notes and click on Review and Release to Production

After reviewing your app from Google Dev team, then it will be release on Google Play Store.