You can download all APKs that Google Play generated from an app bundle you've uploaded to Play Console using the Generated APKs feature in the Google Play Developer API.
How to use generated APKs
A typical publishing workflow which includes downloading generated APKs before they are released on any track would be the following:
- Create a new edit, by calling
Edits: Insert
and specifying the app you want to modify. - Upload a bundle by calling
Edits.bundles: upload
. - Assign the bundle to a track by calling
Edits.tracks: update
. To avoid releasing the new version to end users at this stage, set the status of the new release to draft. - Commit the edit.
- Download the APKs generated from the bundle that you uploaded in step 2 using the Generated APKs methods in the API.
- Process your downloaded APKs.
- Create a new edit as you did in step 1.
- Promote the draft release to a staged or full rollout by calling
Edits.tracks: update
. - Commit the edit.
How to construct your APK directory
If you need to use your APK files with bundletool
, follow these steps to build
them using the Generated APKs API:
- When calling the Generated APKs list method, the response will contain
TargetingInfo field for each signing key. Write this field value
to a file named
toc.json
. - Download your APKs, and put them in a directory with the
toc.json
created in the previous step. Note that each downloaded APK must be named "DownloadId.apk", where DownloadId is the ID used to download the APK from the Generated APKs download method. - You can now use this directory with
bundletool
version 1.15.2 or higher. For example,bundletool install-apks --apks /path/to/created/directory
.