We run automation smoke tests on production apk on periodic basis via Appium Tool. But we observed that this impact the Users Statistics provided as "Android-Vitals" on Play Store such as "User Lost". This is because, developers keep installing/uninstalling the app and this happens in appium automation too.
I generally don't prefer to make separate apk for testing, unless if no other solution exists.
So I want to know the possible ways to prevent Play Store statistics data from getting skewed due to development activities.