Signing and Publishing

This page includes the steps to complete the project and make it available to users on the App Store and Google Play.

1

Android (Google Play)

#Go JDK in terminal
cd /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdkX.X.X_XXX.jdk/Contents/Home

#Create keystore and alias for signature
sudo keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-upload-key.keystore -alias my-key-alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

#Copy the following part, paste it to ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file or android/gradle.properties file and adjust it according to the keystore
MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_FILE=my-upload-key.keystore
MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_ALIAS=my-key-alias
MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD=*****
MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD=*****

#Paste the code I showed you into your project's android/app/build.gradle file.
...
android {
    ...
    defaultConfig { ... }
    signingConfigs {
        release {
            if (project.hasProperty('MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_FILE')) {
                storeFile file(MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_FILE)
                storePassword MYAPP_UPLOAD_STORE_PASSWORD
                keyAlias MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_ALIAS
                keyPassword MYAPP_UPLOAD_KEY_PASSWORD
            }
        }
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            ...
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        }
    }
}
...

#for ABB
cd android && ./gradlew bundleRelease
#After this process, .aab will be created in android/app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app.aab and is ready to be uploaded to Google Play.

#for APK
cd android && ./gradlew app:assembleRelease
#After completing the steps, you will see the APKs in android/app/build/outputs/apk/release

2

iOS (App Store)

To publish your app to the App Store, you must first open it in Xcode (the .xcworkspace folder). After making any necessary changes, you can distribute it to App Store Connect by clicking Archive. You must open the .xcworkspace file of the iOS project.