Support for form factor

[ibatica]

Problem description

Currenlty it is possible to upload only for phone/tablet form, "automotive" and "wear" forms are not support.

Potential solutions/workarounds

In order to support form factor by Android Publishing API track should be defined as wear:production" or "wear:beta", "automotive:internal"
This doesn't work with current implementation.

Additional context

Android Publishing API track and form factor https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/tracks

[JBassett]

Are there any workarounds other than manually deploying?

[markchristopherng]

Hi, we also require this for our wear app where Google requires all wear apps to be on a seperate track by end of August 2023

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/13295490?hl=en

[sorinirimies]

We have a wear app and since Google has started enforcing form factor publishing we can't use properly this plugin.
A form factor option would really be great.

[crysxd]

Is there any workaround? We are kinda slowly approaching the deadline. I assume we need to enable the form factor track and then publish the wear app manually?

[adrianolc]

We're running into the same problem now. Is there any update on when it will be supported or any workaround to solve the issue?

[SUPERCILEX]

I'm not involved with the project anymore, but I still do PR reviews if people want to fix this.

[damiafuentes]

We're facing the same issue.

[crysxd]

I looked at this problem again as it has to be solved soon and now it seems to all work for me as expected.

What I did:

• Create the Wear track in Google Play, this was offered to me in a banner in the Release overview in the Google Play Console
• Update my wear gradle config

play {
    serviceAccountCredentials.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_credentials)
    track.set("wear:" + project.findProperty("play.track"))
    defaultToAppBundles.set(true)
    if (project.rootProject.ext.play_release_fraction >= 1d) {
        releaseStatus.set(com.github.triplet.gradle.androidpublisher.ReleaseStatus.COMPLETED)
    } else {
        releaseStatus.set(com.github.triplet.gradle.androidpublisher.ReleaseStatus.IN_PROGRESS)
    }
    updatePriority.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_update_priority)
    userFraction.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_release_fraction)
    releaseName.set(project.rootProject.ext.version_name)
}

• For reference, my phone gradle config:

play {
    serviceAccountCredentials.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_credentials)
    track.set(project.findProperty("play.track"))
    defaultToAppBundles.set(true)
    if (project.rootProject.ext.play_release_fraction >= 1d) {
        releaseStatus.set(com.github.triplet.gradle.androidpublisher.ReleaseStatus.COMPLETED)
    } else {
        releaseStatus.set(com.github.triplet.gradle.androidpublisher.ReleaseStatus.IN_PROGRESS)
    }
    updatePriority.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_update_priority)
    userFraction.set(project.rootProject.ext.play_release_fraction)
    releaseName.set(project.rootProject.ext.version_name)
}

• I then uploaded a new build to the closed beta with ./gradlew :app-wear:publishReleaseBundle -Pplay.track=closed-beta -Pplay.fraction=1.0 (Make sure "Closed Beta" is set up for the wear form factor)

[damiafuentes]

Hey @crysxd , thanks for your input. I can't manage to make it work still. This is what we currently have, which seems to replicate your behavior above by adding wear: to the track:

build.gradle project level

buildscript {
    ...
    dependencies {
        ...
        classpath 'com.github.triplet.gradle:play-publisher:3.8.4'
    }
}

build.gradle mobile app level

apply plugin: 'com.github.triplet.play'

...

play {
    track = "internal"
    serviceAccountCredentials = file(GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_SERVICE_FILE)
    // Commit this build separately from the wear build.
    commit = true
}

build.gradle wear app level

apply plugin: 'com.github.triplet.play'

...

play {
    track = "wear:internal"
    serviceAccountCredentials = file(GOOGLE_ACCOUNT_SERVICE_FILE)
    // Commit this build separately from the mobile build.
    commit = true
}

However, I'm receiving the following error:

What am I missing?

[damiafuentes]

Which version are you using?

[crysxd]

3.7.0

[damiafuentes]

Found it, had to remove the commit = true line. Thank you!

[positive-infinity]

I am also facing this issue and I am still getting the "Cannot convert URL 'wear:production.txt' to a file." error, no matter if I remove commit property entirely or set it to true or false. @damiafuentes: Did you change anything else?, @crysxd: Which OS are you on? Maybe this is a Linux / Windows issue? I am on Windows.

[positive-infinity]

I think the problem is that GPP tries to generate and/or read from files which are named by the track name (e.g. File(locale, "$track.txt")). In case of track names with prefix (i.e. wear:production) this name contains the char ":" which is invalid for file names (at least on Windows).
This is why it works if you set the release name explicitely by usage of releaseName.set("XXX") and only use default release notes. In this case, the track name file are not needed (not read at all or a fallback in case of failure exists).

[avalanchas]

Thanks @positive-infinity, can confirm, this is the minimal working example as of version 3.8.4 of this plugin:

play {
    track.set("wear:$yourTrackName")
    releaseName.set("$yourVersionName")
}

play {
    track.set("automotive:$yourTrackName")
    releaseName.set("$yourVersionName")
}

[eytanbiala]

Hello, we are hitting this as well with automotive. It seems like the fix from @chimbori should work - is it possible to merge it upstream?