It's generally a very good idea to create a testing track for your app before it gets officially published. In the Google Play Store, you can choose between three tracks before release:
- Internal testing: You can use internal testing to distribute your app to up to 100 testers. This is ideal when you want to show your app to a selected group of testers at the early stages of your development.
- Closed testing: This is to reach a wider audience. You can invite testers by email, and this currently supports up to 200 lists of emails with 2,000 people each.
- Open testing: This is the track we used in this recipe. Open testing means that anyone can download your app after joining your testing program.
Edit the beta lane in the file with the following instructions:
lane :beta do
gradle( task: 'assemble', build_type: 'Release' )
end
This allows you to build an APK file in release mode with the fastlane beta command from the terminal. Once the file has been...