How do I create an app bundle to publish app on Google Play Store?

Question

I have created a react native app for the first time. To publish the app, I have to create an app bundle(.aab).

How do I create an app bundle?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '21 at 10:19

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This is what you do to generate an AAB bundle file.

cd android
./gradlew bundleRelease

Look at this for pre-requisites. To extract an APK out of the bundle and test it on a device before upload then use the bundletool from Google.

answered May 12 '21 at 10:19

Satheesh

Thank you for answering so quickly! I did follow these steps, but there was an error saying `FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.` then `Task 'bundleRelease' not found in root project`. – Shreyashi May 12 '21 at 10:43
What version of React native are you using? – Satheesh May 12 '21 at 11:16
React-native version - 1.0.0 – Shreyashi May 12 '21 at 13:30
@Shreyashi There is no version 1.0.0 of react-native, please look at your package.json and let me know. – Satheesh May 13 '21 at 04:25
Sorry for my mistake. I checked it via terminal and the version is 7.9.0 – Shreyashi May 13 '21 at 05:33
Again you are wrong. See it in your package.json not in terminal. – Satheesh May 13 '21 at 05:43
https://reactnative.dev/docs/getting-started - there is no version 7.9.0 there – Satheesh May 13 '21 at 05:43
The version is shown as 0.64.1. I hope that it is correct. – Shreyashi May 13 '21 at 06:16
Run ./gradlew tasks inside the Android folder to see what all tasks get listed. bundleRelease should be one among them. – Satheesh May 13 '21 at 07:40
I did run ./gradlew task, but I could not find bundleRelease. – Shreyashi May 13 '21 at 13:03
you will see bundle only, Release is the variant. – Satheesh May 13 '21 at 13:42

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