Amazon Appstore support

[jakubvimn]

Problem description

The plugin can be used only for Google Play, but it doesn't support Amazon Appstore

Potential solutions/workarounds

Add the support to it by wrapping the Amazon App Submission API

Additional context

https://developer.amazon.com/docs/app-submission-api/overview.html

[SUPERCILEX]

I have some long-term plans for this, so thanks for opening the issue. 👍

Things to do:

• Publish the non-plugin modules to Jcenter instead of building fat JARs
• Extract the apk and listing tasks to a core plugin module also published to Jcenter
  • These have an abstract field to instantiate a shared publishing interface and another field or fields for input files
• Rename the extracted play tasks to include Play somewhere in the name such that there aren't conflicts

[TakuSemba]

I want this too.

[AndreSand]

I will use the feature to publish to Amazon store :)

[BrantApps]

Just so you know I built a plugin inspired by this one to automate my publishing to the Amazon App Store. @SUPERCILEX I'm not sure how much is PR'able to be able to merge into this product's functionality but do take a look if you'd like to cargo anything.

https://github.com/BrantApps/gradle-amazon-app-store-publisher

[ScottPierce]

Would be really nice to have this.

[timbyu]

I am so anxious for this I am willing to work on the ticket. The documentation provided is great for publishing. Is there any documentation for extending this tool? Or suggestions for what files I should modify to add this functionality?

Tim

[ScottPierce]

I feel that Amazon's documentation around this API is very poor (as most of their developer documentation is). I would have happily done this work a few months ago, but I couldn't even find the proper way.

[SUPERCILEX]

Feel free to give it a go. The first step would be to create a directory called amazon/plugin and stand up a new plugin in there. Then you'd want to add a proof of concept APK publishing task. After that pull out the API layer into amazon/amazon-publisher and finally we'd want to figure out how to make the plugin production ready with code reuse and tests. Note that I can't find an SDK for the amazon API which would be a huge bummer of it doesn't exist.

[SUPERCILEX]

I couldn't even find the proper way

Yeah, I think you'd have to use retrofit or something and manually connect the dots.

[BrantApps]

I have a working gradle plugin that uploads binaries to the Amazon Developer Console to help you get a feel of how to connect the dots @ScottPierce & @timbyu!

Here it is.

The general gist of it can be gleaned from the console output the plugin generates...

The code is quite boring. I hadn't written much Kotlin at the time either so probably looks like very Java-ry Kotlin but easy to evolve if you want to bootstrap.

[timbyu]

The Amazon documentation can be found here https://developer.amazon.com/docs/app-submission-api/overview.html. Using David Branton's solution (Thanks David) I was successfully able to upload the APK to Amazon but I would like to use this tool as a single solution for both stores. I am not experienced with Kotlin so it will take me a while to get it up and running. If any of you with experience are willing to look at Branton's solution https://github.com/BrantApps/gradle-amazon-app-store-publisher as an example I will hold off. If not, I will give it a go. Thanks for the quick responses!

[ursusursus]

People will want this since Windows 11 will include the amazon app store

[kenyee]

Might as well ask for the Samsung App Store too if the upload API can be generalized :-)

[joshuamking]

The Samsung App Store would seriously be amazing..