Question

Research and detail the steps needed in order to publish an application to one of the major App stores.

These stores include the Mac App Store, the Windows Store, Google Play, or iOS App Store. Include all steps needed, costs, and any relevant information needed to guide someone through the process who has never published an application to one of these markets. You only need to research and provide details on one of the app stores, not all of them. The main post must be at least 200 words and site sources.

Answer 1

Steps to publish the Android App on Google Play Store.

1. Create Your Android App

First thing for uploading your App on Play Store is to Develop your App and make it Store-Ready.Use Proper theme, colors, graphics, strings and icons.

2. Make its Signed Apk(Using Release Keystore)

To generate keystores for signing Android apps at the command line, use:

$ keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

A debug keystore which is used to sign an Android app during development needs a specific alias and password combination as dictated by Google. To create a debug keystore, use:

$ keytool -genkey -v -keystore debug.keystore -storepass android -alias androiddebugkey -keypass android -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Keystore name: “debug.keystore”
Keystore password: “android”
Key alias: “androiddebugkey”
Key password: “android”

3. Login to your Google mail Account and visit this link : https://play.google.com/apps/publish/

4. Create a Merchant Account

Note : It will charge you once in a lifetime fee i.e 25$. Just do it to start uploading your first app.

5. Mandatory Fields needed in App Listing:

— Title
— Short Desc
— Full Desc
— App Screenshots(JPEG or 24-bit PNG (no alpha))(Min-2,Max-8)(Min-320px,Max-3840px)
— Hi-res icon(512 x 512)(32-bit PNG (with alpha))
— Feature Graphic(1024 w x 500 h)(JPG or 24-bit PNG (no alpha))
— App Type
— Category
— Content Rating
— Developer/Company Email
— Privacy Policy Url
— And some other details