I am trying to publish my different app versions to the Play Store in an automated fashion. I have Fastlane setup and have no issue getting the Production, Closed Testing - Alpha, Closed Testing - Beta and Internal tracks to publish. However, I am unable to publish to the Open Testing track because there seems to be no option for it in Fastlane or Google Play (even according to their docs: https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/tracks).
Has anyone solved this issue before?
You can specify any track name you want.
The tracks listed in the documentation point to the default set that all apps should have. You can create new tracks and use them in your automation.
I created an Open Beta Track and renamed it to open_beta. Then, I set the track parameter in the supply lane to open_beta. That's it! The artifact was successfully uploaded to the new Open Beta Track.
supply(track: 'open_beta', rollout: 0.2)
The documentation doesn't really point out this possibility. I found it possible by accident when reading through the gradle-play-publisher documentation, where they say the following:
trackis the target stage for an artifact, i.e.internal/alpha/beta/productionor any custom track