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Publishing Your App for Android

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Publishing Your App for Android

Preparing For Publish

Building your app

Packaging your app using the CLI

To build your app from the CLI, on Windows, Linux, or macOS:

  • Open a terminal, command line, or powershell

  • Navigate to your csproj folder

  • Publish the app using:

    shell
    dotnet publish -f net10.0-android -c Release -o ./publish

  • Once the build is done, the output .apk and .aab files are located in the ./publish folder.

Publishing your Android App

Publishing an Uno Platform app uses the same steps as .NET for Android-based technologies.

Your app can be published:

  • Through a market – There are multiple Android marketplaces that exist for distribution, with the most well-known being Google Play, or Amazon.
  • Via a website – An Uno Platform app can be made available for download on a website, from which users may then install the app by clicking on a link.
  • Using adb on the command line, with adb install your.apk. In Visual Studio 2022/2026, you can open a shell with adb available in the PATH with the Tools, Android, Android Adb Command Prompt menu.

Publishing an Uno Platform also uses the same steps as a MAUI app, which is based on .NET for Android. You can follow these steps and links to publish your app.