Publishing overview
See your draft and pending changes in one place, and control when updates are published
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View your changes at a glance
See a list of all of your draft and pending changes, organized by the type of change and release track.
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Control when changes are sent for review
Send changes in "Changes ready to send for review" section for review when you finish editing all the changes.
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Control when updates are published
Use Managed publishing to decide exactly when to publish your updates, instead of them automatically going live after approval.
Best Practices
- Submit changes long before your intended release date, giving yourself time to review or make changes without sacrificing control over your publishing date.
- Staged mode, enabled by default, allows you to decide when to send your changes for review.
- Ensure smoother rollout of your releases and avoid unintended policy violations with pre-submission checks. Pre-submission checks combine existing policy & new compatibility checks.
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Change your mind last minute? Discard any saved releases before they are sent for review.
- You can publish your approved changes, even if other changes are still in review.
- You can turn Managed publishing on or off at any time, even if there are changes in review or ready to publish.
- Easily see if Managed publishing is turned on in the left-hand navigation menu.
- Use the halt release feature to immediately stop distribution if a critical issue is detected after your release goes fully liv e.
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Console features
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Releases overview
Monitor your builds to manage your releases at every stage of the process
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Production
Make your app or game available to users on Google Play
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Pre-launch reports
Spot issues before they affect your users. Test on a range of Android devices to learn more about your app's stability, performance, accessibility, and more.
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Android vitals
Monitor and improve the technical quality of your app or game. Android vitals reports on key user-impacting issues and helps you to debug and prioritize across them.
