Does firebase app check with play integrity requires an app in the store

Question

I can't manage to make a release version of a flutter app to correctly identify with app check using the play integrity provider.

As I read, the play integrity verifies that the app has been downloaded from the play store, which in my case, it is not (it is only in the closed testing track in the play console).

So my questions:

• Does app check with play integrity requires the app to be in the play store ?
• If the answer to the above is yes: How can you enforce app check before release and send the app to testers without using the debug token ? Using a debug token would be impractical for testers who are not necessarily techies.

Methodize

I am also stuck at this question. Does anyone have experience whether we need to make app publicly live to generate release token or not. Can we generate release token when app is in closed track, internal testing, beta testing ? stackoverflow.com/users/4299560/ced please help – Hautegaronne

Upvote the question to increase the likelyhood of this being seen by a firebaser – Methodize