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Publish to the App Store and Google Play

Buildr prepares everything; you submit from your own developer accounts.

Who does what

Buildr prepares the app, the store listing in each language, the artwork at the sizes each store asks for, and your in-app subscription products.

You submit. The app is published under your own Apple Developer and Google Play accounts, so the app, the listing and the revenue belong to you and nobody else stands between you and the store.

What you need first

For the App Store: an Apple Developer Program membership, currently about $99 a year, and a Mac or a cloud build service to produce a signed build.

For Google Play: a Play Console developer account, currently a one-off $25 registration fee.

Both stores also want a privacy policy URL, an app icon, a content rating questionnaire and — for Google — a data safety form.

Prepare it in Buildr

Open Publishing on a phone project. Write or generate the listing for each language, with the real store character limits enforced as you type. Create the artwork set. Add your subscription products if the app sells anything.

When the checklist is complete, copy the listing text and download the artwork. That is the pack you paste into App Store Connect or Play Console.

Submit it yourself — App Store

Enroll in the Apple Developer Program and create the app record in App Store Connect with your bundle identifier.

Export your project's code, then build a signed iOS app from it — Expo's cloud build service under your own Expo account is the usual route, or Xcode on a Mac.

Upload the build with Transporter or your build service, paste the listing text and artwork into the version page, answer the privacy and content questions, and submit for review. Apple's review usually takes a day or two.

Submit it yourself — Google Play

Register in Play Console and create the app entry.

Build a signed Android app bundle from your exported code and upload it, starting with an internal test track if you want to try it on your own device first.

Fill in the store listing with the text and artwork from Buildr, complete the content rating and data safety forms, then roll out to production. Google's review is usually quick but can take several days for a first release.

Buildr never claims a submission it did not make. Nothing in the app shows a review status that did not come from you.