What is app bundle

[Lam_Henry]

What is app bundle? How can I use it?

[TIMAI2]

from the release notes for n187:

Add ability to build App Bundles (alternative way to create apps for sending to the Google Play Store)

Note: App Bundles (AAB files) can only be used to upload a packaged app to the Google Play Store and cannot be loaded directly into a device or emulator. This is now the required way to upload a new App to Google Play.

[Lam_Henry]

Google play store does not accept .apk anymore?

[dora_paz]

See here

New Android App Bundle and target API level requirements in 2021

[Anke]

@Lam_Henry

play store does not accept .apk anymore?

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…