Can .aab be supported in addition to apk?

[dinghaoz]

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[Rileyp33]

@dinghaoz did you solve for uploading an AAB instead of an APK?

[brookse]

@dinghaoz @Rileyp33 any update on uploading an AAB? I'm running into this now.

[joshdholtz]

@brookse Heyyy!! 😁 The bad part about AAB is that they can't be sideloaded as easy an as APK. The AAB is more of a raw asset kind of thing that Google Play turns into different APKs versions when requested by devices.

So, something like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aefyr.sai&hl=en&gl=US needs to be installed on the client device in order to turn the AAB into an APK that can be installed 🤷‍♂️

It's probably recommended to upload an APK if you can but... I can look into an AAB upload if that doesn't work with the current features in this plugin 💪

[brookse]

@joshdholtz Hiya 👋 💜

Gotcha. One of my clients wants to submit aabs instead of apks to the Play store for a number of reasons (the biggest one is wanting to use Google's compression stuff so that the build is smaller, but also any new apps are required to be an aab, so I imagine it might bottleneck others), so it feels a little weird doing multiple builds (bundle & assemble) and delivering the assemble to s3 for testing and delivering the bundle to Play.

Is there an easy(ish) way to extract an apk to send up to s3, or something else you might recommend? My assumption is that even using another storage service like Dropbox won't work, since the aab can't be directly installed anyways.

[Aure77]

As workaround, I use files to upload aab on S3 (this format is now mandatory on Play Store since august 2021):

  aws_s3(
    ...
    files: lane_context[SharedValues::GRADLE_ALL_AAB_OUTPUT_PATHS],
  )

But I can't use version interpolation in path (https://github.com/fastlane-community/fastlane-plugin-s3/blob/master/lib/fastlane/plugin/aws_s3/actions/aws_s3_action.rb#L480)