In the previous blog post we learned how to publish APK easily using a single gradle task. But what if you want to offload the build part also? That’s where CI (Continuous Integration) comes in.

For uploading APK to google play automatically, we can either use the API’s provided by google itself to manually upload APK or use an existing solution. Good thing for us is that there is already an existing open source gradle plugin for publishing apps to google play, so we don’t need to get our hands dirty.

Inorder to publish the release build on google play we need to setup our developer account.

Manual publishing is a chore and a waste of time as it involves a lot of steps which are redundant and can be easily automated.