How to use Google Play pre-launch report with expo / react-native

Question

Google has a built in app crawler for the app store called the pre-launch report.

It will crawl your app on a bunch of different devices and give you some basic feedback assuming you:

1. provide credentials (easy)
2. provide resource IDs for username / password fields, sign-in button (hard)

It doesn't appear to be trivial to set these to be static in expo / react-native, they are dynamically generated.

Is there a smart way to set this up?

Lyn

The ability to add resource IDs is being tracked as a feature request/idea at react-native.canny.io/feature-requests/p/… – Inexperienced

Answer 1

when you submit the app for any testing track, Google Play console will automatically add this version to "Pre-launch Report" and start testing automatically (almost randomly) on real devices. you don't have control over this.

but if you want more control over this process you could use Firebase Test Lab it uses the same concept as Google Play console "Pre-launch Report" but with more features.

Note: you can use this tool for free but eventually you may need to pay for it.

Ruscher