Signatures for App Bundles

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How to upload and publish an app in the Play Store → AAB or APK

If you want to upload and publish an app in the Play Store, the following should be observed: Apps that were published in the Play Store before Aug 1, 2021 can still be uploaded as APKs in the Play Developer Console (even after Nov 2021) and therefore do not need to switch to Google App Signing (which simplifies it). Apps that were published in the Play Store after July 31, 2021 must use AABs and also Google App Signing. To test such apps in advance, you should always have an APK generated…

Tutorial for signing an AAB file

Why? It is not necessary to switch to Google's Play App Signing (PAS) for existing apps that have been uploaded and published as APK. I would advise anyone not to opt for PAS as it just makes things unnecessarily complicated. You don't have a choice for new apps, but then there is no problem with signing the AAB.

Tutorial for signing an AAB file

For new apps (i.e. for AABs) you just have to make sure that a new keystore is used. That's all.

Tutorial for signing an AAB file

Then before creating a new keystore let me suggest to first backup the old keystore because for the older apps you still might want to use it... Taifun

Tutorial for signing an AAB file

Yes, definitely!