How do I publish my app in the iOS App Store and Google Play? | Aquro Help Center

To publish your app on the various app stores, there are a few different steps you'll need to take. These are...

  1. Signing up as a developer
  2. Generating signing keys and provisioning profile
  3. Building your app
  4. Submitting/publishing your app
  1. Signing up as a developer.

You will need to sign up as a developer on each app store. For Google the cost is a one-time $25 enrollment fee, while Apple requires a yearly fee of $99.

When signing up for a Apple Developer Account as a company, you will have to verify your company identity and assure your authority to sign a legal contract on behalf of said company. The process is described in-detail on Apple's website and is easily completed by following their instructions.

2. Generate signing keys and a provisioning profile.

When you have access to your developer accounts ready to go, you now need to generated signing keys and (on iOS) a provisioning profile.

The signing keys are used to prove your identity and verify app integrity to the app stores.

For Google Play read this articles:

For Apple App Store read these articles:

3. Building your app
Building your app is done inside the Aquro App Studio. When you have generated the required signing keys and provisioning profile, building your application is quite easy.

  1. Navigate to RELEASE MANAGEMENT > NEW BUILD
  2. Go to INFO and verify that the account information is correct
  3. Go to ICONS and upload your icons (for information read this article)
  4. Go to SCREEN and select the desired options
  5. Go to FEATURES and check which hardware features are activated for your app
  6. Go to ANDROID and verify that the right signing key is selected
  7. Go to IOS and verify that the right signing certificate and provisioning profile is selected
  8. Finally build your app by pressing the BUILD NOW button
  9. The process of building your app make take anywhere between 2 and 15 minutes depending on the size of your app and the included hardware features.

4. Publish your app
When the build process is done you are ready to download your generated apps and upload them to the different app stores.

First download your app by following these steps:

  1. Navigate to RELEASE MANAGEMENT > BUILDS
  2. Locate the build you like to publish and locate the Apple icon and the Android icon on that row
  3. Click on the Apple icon to download the iOS app and click on the Android icon to download the Android app

Now you have to upload and publish your app on Google Play and the App Store.
Apps added to Google Play will be published as soon as you choose to publish them, apps added to Apple App Store, however, will be manually verified by Apple before you may publish them. This process takes about one week.

To upload and publish your app on Google Play go to https://play.google.com/apps/publish/ and follow the instructions.

To upload and publish your app on Apple App Store go to https://itunesconnect.apple.com and follow the instructions.

To upload your app to the Apple App Store, you will need to use a tool created by Apple called Application Loader. This tool is only available on Mac OSX. If you are unable to use this tool, you can use the Binary upload tool available in the Aquro Platform. To use this tool, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the Aquro App Studio, then RELEASE MANAGEMENT > BUILDS
  2. Locate the build you like to publish and locate and click on the upload icon
  3. Enter your iTunes Connect username and password and click on UPLOAD