Releases overview
Monitor your builds to manage your releases at every stage of the process
Publishing overview
See your draft and pending changes in one place, and control when updates are published
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Essentials
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Learning
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Programs
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Play Console
Test
Release
Grow
Quality
Monetize
Manage
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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 live.
Find out more
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Console features
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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.
Additional features
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See your draft and pending changes in one place, and control when updates are published