Beyond Pre-Launch Reports

When you upload and publish your Android application package (APK) to your alpha or beta channel in the Google Play Console, your APK is tested across a wide range of devices running different versions of Android. The resulting pre-launch report helps to identify crashes, display issues, and security vulnerabilities.

The pre-launch report is powered by Robo test , an automated test included with Firebase Test Lab . You can use Robo test to target specific devices, locales, or versions of Android for testing, and you can also use Robo test to test your app for longer durations.

Robo test is more customizable than the pre-launch report, but it is just as easy to use.

Running your first Robo test in Test Lab

1. Create a Firebase project if you don't have one already: in the Firebase console , click Add New Project , then enter a name for your project. If you already have a Cloud project, you can select it from the drop-down menu to add Firebase to it.
2. Go to the Test Lab page in Firebase console .
3. Drag the APK for the app you'd like to test into "Android" section or click Browse for APK , and select the file.

Test Lab uploads the selected APK and automatically begins running a Robo test on it.

Next steps

To increase the number of tests you can run on a daily basis, upgrade to the Blazepricing plan. To learn more about daily usage quotas, and about how usage-based billing is calculated on the Blazeplan, see Test Lab quota and billing .

If you want to test your app even more thoroughly and frequently, you can use Test Lab with continuous integration systems. You can also use Test Lab to run instrumented tests that you write specifically to test your app, and you can run these tests from the Firebase console, the gcloud command line , and directly from Android Studio .

To learn more about Test Lab , see the Test Lab introduction .