After you build your Android App Bundle, you should test how Google Play
uses it to generate APKs and how those APKs behave when deployed to a device.
There are two ways you should consider testing your app bundle: locally using the
bundletool
command line tool and through Google Play by
uploading your bundle to the Play Console
and using a test track. This page explains how to use bundletool
to test your
app bundle locally.
Installation Steps:
- Open Terminal using Spotlight search by pressing
<command+space>
.
Type terminal and hitEnter
key. - Now, run
ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)” < /dev/null 2> /dev/null
- Install bundletool using brew
brew install bundletool
bundletool is ready to use now!
bundletool
is the underlying tool that Gradle, Android Studio, and Google
Play use to build an Android App Bundle or convert an app bundle into the
various APKs that are deployed to devices. bundletool
is also available to
you as a command line tool, so you can recreate, inspect, and verify Google
Play’s server-side build of your app’s APKs.