Web-app dev5, Webview app submit to Play Store

Final Step

This writing is about how to submit mobile application, especially Webview application to Play Store. Webview application needs some one more extra verification, such as if the web is owned by the same owner of application, and I will explain about it in this writing.

* This is continued writing from previous one. 

1. Submit your application in Google Play Console

• First you should have developer account in Google Play Console. Create one and you may need to pay 25$ one time in: https://play.google.com/console/signup
• Create app in your account.

• After you create application, you will see what you need to do further for application registration in Dashboard. Complete the each stage. All those information is used validation of this application by Google, so make it very clear and correctly.

• Store presence - Main store listing, here you write app information for Play Store. For example, your app name, description, app icon, screenshot etc. etc. In the description, you can't use repeated word or just list of word or hashtag # etc. It should be precise and clear and explain well about you application. 

• In the production, you can upload and submit your application as aab file. You can choose in which country you will release your application etc.

2. Important: Advance notice for Webview application

• As mentioned Webview application needs one more extra verification otherwise it will be rejected. So this must be done before submit your application.
• In Play Console, go to Store presence - Main store listing, then in Listing assets you can see "Provide advance notice". Click it.

• Here you can provide advance notice to the Google Play App Review team. You need to prove that the web, which is shown in the application, is owned by same owner. You can attach 1 document to prove it.

• If available you can send your URL registration document or some, but in my case, simply I attached the screenshot of Google Search Console, which prove this website is mine.

3. App update

• If every information you submit is correct, the application will be released in Play Store. Once after the app is released, you can update your application by Create new release in Production tab.

• When you make aab file for the update, in the app.json, you should change the version with another one. This version is for your reference, so you can make it as you wish, 1.0.1 or 2.0.0 or so.

{
  "expo": {
    "name": "KpopB",
    "slug": "KpopB",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "icon": "./assets/icon.png",
    "userInterfaceStyle": "light",
    "splah": {
      "image": "./assets/splash.png",
      "resizeMode": "contain",
      "backgroundColor": "#ffffff"
    },
    "ios": {
      "supportsTablet": true
    },

• Android application use another norm also, which is "versionCode". Include the versionCode in app.json. Note that this versionCode is for Play Console to track the version, and this should be integer. When several updates are done at the same time, Play Console can determine with versionCode, which comes first and which comes later.
• Your first release is with versionCode 1, so for update, you should put 2 or others.

    "android": {
      "versionCode": 2,

{
  "expo": {
    "name": "KpopB",
    "slug": "KpopB",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "orientation": "portrait",
    "icon": "./assets/icon.png",
    "userInterfaceStyle": "light",
    "splah": {
      "image": "./assets/splash.png",
      "resizeMode": "contain",
      "backgroundColor": "#ffffff"
    },
    "ios": {
      "supportsTablet": true
    },
    "android": {
      "versionCode": 2,
      "adaptiveIcon": {
        "foregroundImage": "./assets/adaptive-icon.png",
        "backgroundColor": "#ffffff"
      },

So far,

I shared my development experience for Android Webview application. I hope it helped some beginner like me. Current my plan is studying TypeScript and developing another application (To-be-developed App list, https://anchubby.blogspot.com/2024/05/developed-and-to-be-developed-app-list.html) for both Android and iOS. After that development I will share it also in next writing. So far thank you for watching this!