Publishing your new app or game to the Google play store

Objective: Publish an application to the Google Play store

First thing to do is to sign up to a Google developer account here, it will cost a one time fee of $25. Once the account is set up, you need to make some adjustments in your project to make it via for the play store.

You need to make what is called a keystore that is required for every time you make a build of the game for delivery to the app store.

Open up the player settings window and then open up the publishing settings tab. You will see an option to create a new keystore, do this now.

In this new window you new to click on the keystore and then create new -> Anywhere.

Add in a password under the file address for you project. Then add in an alias for the keystore and add in another password, it can be the same password as before.

Click Add Key and another window will appear asking you to set the newly create keystore to the project key.

Now, on the first version you upload to the app store the version can and bundle code can stay as they’re but when you make updates to the application and then upload the new version, you need to make sure that you change these, otherwise you want be able to upload the app.

Now, head over to the google play console and create a new app and follow the instructions for uploading a new app. It is a simple process to follow and it will take a few days for the app to be approved by Google and then appear on the store.