Fix Play Console Warning

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Mobile Innovation Network

3 min readJul 23, 2024

When publishing an Android app on the Google Play Store, developers might encounter various warnings and errors. One such warning is: “This app bundle contains native code and you haven’t uploaded the debug symbols.”

This article explains what this warning means, why it matters, and how to address it effectively.

What Does This Warning Mean?

When you see the warning “This app bundle contains native code and you haven’t uploaded the debug symbols,” it indicates that your app includes native code (compiled C/C++ code) but the corresponding debug symbols (files that contain information needed to debug the app) are missing.

Why Are Debug Symbols Important?

Debug symbols are essential for several reasons:

Crash Analysis: They help you understand and analyze crash reports. Without debug symbols, crash reports from the Play Store will show obfuscated stack traces, making it difficult to pinpoint the source of the issue.
Performance Profiling: They enable detailed performance profiling and debugging, which is crucial for maintaining the app’s performance and stability.

How to Fix the Warning?

If your project builds an Android App Bundle, you can automatically include the debug symbols file in it.

Step 1 :

To include this file, add the following to your app’s build.gradle file (inside buildTypes -> release) :

ndk.debugSymbolLevel = "FULL"

Step 2:

To execute the above statement, we need to include ndk library to our project.

Go to Settings -> SDK Manager

Download NDK (Side by Side) library

Step 3 :

Once you have downloaded the library,

Go to Settings -> Project Structure

Modules -> Select NDK Version

Select apply. Clean the project and that’s it.

Now you can generate a new release build and upload it to Play Console.

You will see the warning is now gone.

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