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Distribute VSTS build to Play store through Microsoft Appcenter

I have a build running in VSTS for my apps and I want to distribute these builds through Microsoft appcenter. However, I cant find a way to distribute directly into Play Store, only to distribution groups.

For distribution groups all I do is add the correct id in the release step in VSTS release task. I am using Deploy "AppName" to Visual Studio App Center task in VSTS: Distribution group Id However, the different play store (or app store) distribution options does not have the same Ids.

Solution

  • The store id is hard to find, I came across the same problem.

    Eventually I found that you can get it in App Center by going to your App > Distribute > [Store] and then looking in the browser's network requests. The 'latest_release' request returns an object with a property of 'distribution_stores' that will list your store connections, complete with 'id'.

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    There has to be a neater way to find this, surely, but this works for now.

    UPDATE

    Thanks to the response from @ruffen, it appears there is indeed a neater way. There is now an App Centre api endpoint available, here: https://openapi.appcenter.ms/#/distribute/stores_list

    Just look for the same id property in the response.