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In this post i want to show you how to enable google play app signing.
Why Play App Signing
With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app’s signing key for you and uses it to sign your APKs for distribution. It’s a secure way to store your app signing key that helps protect you if your key is ever lost or compromised.
Important: To use Android App Bundles, the recommended app publishing format, you need to enroll in Play App Signing before uploading your app bundle in Play Console.
To opt in, you need to be an account owner or a user with the Release to production, exclude devices, and use Play App Signing permission, and you need to accept the Terms of Service. You can enroll apps into Play App Signing one at a time.
How it works
When you use Play App Signing, your keys are stored on the same infrastructure that Google uses to store its own keys. Keys are protected by Google’s Key Management Service. If you want to learn about Google’s technical infrastructure, read the Google Cloud Security Whitepapers.
Android apps are signed with a private key. To ensure that app updates are trustworthy, every private key has an associated public certificate that devices and services use to verify that the app is from a trusted source. Devices only accept updates when its signature matches the installed app’s signature. By letting Google manage your app signing key, it makes this process more secure.
Note: Using Play App Signing is optional. You can still upload an APK and manage your own keys instead of using an app bundle. However, if you lose your keystore or it becomes compromised, you won’t be able to update your app without publishing a new app with a new package name.
How enable Google play app signing
Step 1: Enroll in Play App Signing
- Open Play Console.
- Select an app.
- On the left menu, go to Release > Setup > App integrity.
Step 2: Select the private key
Step 3: Save and Agree
