The battle is won…my new APK is finally on the Google Play Console!

You can find a video at the bottom of the page and a link to the source code here.

You can ALSO find my app on the Google Play Store here.

I started by deleting all my keystores. If I can’t use them, no point in keeping them. I have a janitor ring of keys but none of them work. What’s the point?

After this, I generated a new APK bundle and unpublished my original app in the Google Play Console. With this new APK, I could create a new release. Since Google doesn’t allow for the deletion of apps once they’re published, I unpublished the old app and renamed it for my records.

I drafted a new app and attempted to submit the new APK, but I was presented with a warning that I had to change the package name of the new APK.

After renaming the package name for the app in the AndroidManifest and updating the applicationId in the gradle files, I generated a brand new APK, redrafted the app, and submit the new APK bundle.

Now that I have successfully uploaded the fixed APK bundle, I have a solid grasp of the publishing process. New apps cannot share a package name with already published apps since they must be unique. And since apps can’t be deleted, I need to be 100% sure an app is ready before publishing it to Google Play.

With the tough stuff is out of the way, it’s time to create a back end for this app with Firebase.

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