The one and only aim to develop any application is to provide value to the people . Flutter is a great platform that allow you to build android , IOS , Linux , Web , Desktop app through single code base . The flutter frame work is getting popular day by day . Since it is easy to learn and you can build attractive apps through less and well optimised code . The two way to make your app available to the users throughout the world is to upload app either on Play Store or App store . Uploading an app is not enough to get more download on any of the platform . You need to update it time to time which will help you to get more download and make your app viral . If you are not able to Update flutter app on google play store than this article can be helpful for you . Here I will guide through each and every step to Update flutter app on google play store .
Step 1 : Updating the version Code on Source code of your app .
If you have already uploaded an app and you have digitally signed source code than you can update the app on google play store . But if you don’t have digitally signed source code than you can’t update your app . If you have digitally signed source code open it on any IDE either VS Code or android Studio . After you open source code open pubspec.yaml file from the source code . After you open pubspec.yaml find version code on pubspec.yaml file . By default the version code will be 1.0.0+1 . Version code is one which allow you to update your app on play store . In order to update your application on play store your version code should differ from previous version code . Make change in version code to update you app . You don’t need to change digit before + just replace +1 with +(2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 or 7 or 8 or 9) which you prefer . Don’t use two digit after + .
After you make change you can press CTRL+S to save changes . And now build apk or App bundle by using command flutter build app-bundle or flutter build apk . After you build apk now we are eligible to update our app on play store . Next step we have to do is upload the apk or app-bundle with updated version code .
Step 2 : Upload apk or app-bundle with updated version code on play console .
Now open you play console account . After you open your console account click on the application which you want to update . On Right side of your application details you can see Release overview . Click on Release Overview . After you click on release overview you can find right arrow bellow latest version . Click on right arrow . After you click on right arrow bellow latest version you will be navigated to next page (Release Summary ) . On Release Summary Page click on View release dashboard . On next page now click on Create New Release and upload the latest apk or .aab with the updated version code . After you upload the latest version code now google will view whether our new version is compact able withe the privacy policy of google or not . If your app is compact able with the privacy policy your can find your updated version of your app on google play store within 2/4 days .
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