I made a simple timer app for Android, desktop, and browser. I think it’s ready for most part, and I’m starting to look into publishing it.
I decided to start with Android / Play Store, which immediately gives me a roadblock. Google Play Console says:
- Have at least 20 testers opted-in to your closed test (1 tester currently opted-in)
- Run your closed test with at least 20 testers, for at least 14 days
I want to look into F-Droid and Flathub once I have this sorted out. But before that, any opinions on the app, or volunteers for testing, as I don’t have 20 friends to ask?
Thanks.
https://github.com/sevonj/visualtimer/
Edit: Let’s try Play store again with this: https://groups.google.com/g/jyl-test-group
Edit 2: It works, at least someone besides me was able to join:
What a pain. I’ll look into preparing an F-droid release as soon as I have time.
It’s quite interesting to read about these hurdles, even though I’m not planning to publish anything in the foreseeable future. Always just on the downloading side. Thanks for posting. Hope you get it sorted out!
Don’t know about Google but you can set up your own F-Droid repository, and you can also prepare to try to get it to ship via the main F-Droid repository. And if you have releases on Github you can maybe ask to have it also included with IzzyDroid F-Droid repo https://android.izzysoft.de/intro.php
do we need to have google play store and a google account to help you with testing?
The 20 testers is specifically a play store requirement, so it has to go through it.
There same build is on github too, it just doesn’t count towards Google’s requirement.
Why don’t you just publish it on F-Droid?
I’d be happy to be a tester, but trying the link you provided gives me the following message:
App not available A testing version of this app hasn’t been published yet or isn’t available for this account.
