Publishing

BloomBus-Tracker-Android is published to the Google Play Store under an Internal Testing release. This allows the app to be private with a specified list of emails that are registered as testers, including any users that follow the opt-in link. BloomBus-Client is on its way to being deployed to the Google Play Store now that it supports publishing Progressive Web Apps. PWAs are supported through a new API added in Chrome 72 called "Trusted Web Activities". John Gibson started working on publishing the BloomBus-Client PWA by following this guide by @firt on Medium, although this guide from fireship.io looks even more thorough. The TWA API allows for some important features such as adding an Android Wear companion app and delivering native push notifications.

To sign releases for BloomBus-Tracker-Android, the Android keystore for the project and the gradle.properties which holds the values for the various keystore secrets are needed, and can be found in the #devs-resources channel in the Discord server, accessible to those with the "dev" role.