How to launch an Instant app to production on the Google Play Store

Rick Buiten
3 min readApr 4, 2022
Google Instant app — How to publish it
Google Instant app — How to publish it

An instant app is a functionality that allows users to use your app without having to install it. This is the final part of the Instant app series. After this step you could publish an Instant app to the Google Play Store.

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Deploy in Play store

After you have tested the functionality locally, you can publish it in the Google Play Store.

Activate release type

Before you can start, you must first activate the release type. You do this by going to the management page of your app in the Google Play store. Then click Configure > Advanced Settings > Release Types. On this screen you could add the release type Google Play Instant. After you have activated this, you can continue.

Upload the bundle

First of all you need to upload the bundle as a standard release type. This can be done, for example, in the Internal test track. After you have done this, click on release in the overview of the internal test track at the top right. A…

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Rick Buiten

I am a software engineer who likes to write about Android (Kotlin), iOS (Swift), Java and AWS