Publishing a beta version of your app in the Google Play Store

Before making your app available in release mode, it’s considered a best practice to have a smaller group of people test your app. It can be a small group of specific people, such as your team or your customers, or a larger group of people. In any case, publishing a beta version can give you invaluable feedback on your app. In this recipe, you will see how to publish your app in a beta track in the Google Play Store.

Getting ready

Before following along with this recipe, you should have completed all the previous recipes in this chapter, or at least those that target Android.

How to do it...

You will compile your app in release mode and upload it to the Google Play Store in beta. To do so, follow these steps:

1. Open the fastfile file into your project’s android/fastlane directory.
2. If, in the file, there is already a beta lane, comment it out.
3. At the bottom of the platform...