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Register your app

Sign in with Google when you are ready to create it. What you typed stays.

  1. 1

    Register your app

    Name, package name and how many testers you need. About three minutes.

    You are here
  2. 2

    Add the developerpact SDK

    One dependency and one line in main(). Upload that build to your closed testing track.

  3. 3

    Swap testers

    Developers from the board join your test, install from Play and open your app for a minute a day. You do the same for theirs.

  4. 4

    Apply for production

    The ledger shows who is really testing. Once 12 testers have stayed 14 days, apply to Google with the engagement summary.

Sign in to register your app

Any Google account. What you have typed stays in the form. Testers will see the address your phone uses for Play; you can change it later on Me.

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App details

As testers will see it on the board and in mail.

The applicationId in android/app/build.gradle, e.g. com.example.myapp. The opt-in and store links are derived from it. iOS bundle ids are not accepted: this is for Google Play closed testing.

Tester roster

How Play Console gets your tester list.

Roster mode

Test configuration

How many testers, and the daily rules for this app. The defaults are the network's.

12 are required, 16 recommended so a drop does not cost you a day. 12–16; every seat is an app you test back.

Seconds in the foreground that make a day count; 60–180.

Days without an active day before you may drop; 2–5.

Days from pairing; 14–28.

Sign in to create it; what you typed stays. Nobody can join until the app is open.

Time budget

Your side of it: a minute a day in each tester’s app, for as long as they are in yours.

  • 1 min
    per day per tester
    60 seconds
    daily threshold
  • 16 min
    per day across all testers
    16 testers
    total seats
  • 4.5 h
    across 17 days
    17 days
    test term
Daily per tester
60 seconds ≈ 1 min
Daily total
1 min × 16 testers = 16 min
Whole term
16 min × 17 days = 4.5 h

Rules freeze after the first tester. Until then you can change them on the settings page.