Experience from developing and running websites, e-shops and servers. Practical, no marketing.
Everything Play Console asks before an app reaches its first testers: the app content declarations, Data safety, the store listing, the new AI-generated asset declaration, a privacy policy that has to be reachable, internal testing, app signing and what to expect around pricing and tax.
How to produce a Play-ready, correctly signed Android App Bundle from an Expo SDK 57 project on your own Mac: an upload keystore kept outside the repository, a config plugin that survives prebuild, one Gradle memory fix, and a script that refuses to finish if the signature is wrong.
Everything that broke the first time an Expo SDK 57 development build met Xcode 27, an iOS 27 simulator and an Android 14 emulator, with the cause and the fix for each. Written so the second app does not have to rediscover any of it.
Write to me, I will reply by the next day.