Publishing to the Google Play Store

Publishing is a two-step process, and it starts with compilation of a Xamarin.Android project and ends with uploading a compiled package to the store.

We need a Google Developer Account in order to upload our package to the Google Play Store.

Preparing Project to Compile

It's strongly recommended that applications have their unique icons. In Visual Studio, we can assign an application icon using the Android Manifest section of project Properties, as shown in the following screenshot:

Preparing Project to Compile

We also have to specify the Version number and Version name of the application, as shown in the preceding screenshot.

The AssemblyInfo.cs ...

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