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React Native Android Release with Custom App Version and Signing using Azure DevOps and Google Play Store

9 min readJun 25, 2025

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REACT + ANDROID + AZURE DEVOPS + GOOGLE PLAY

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React Native Android Release with Azure DevOps and Google Play Store

Introduction

We can use React native, an open source mobile application framework by Facebook, to develop application for Android, IOS, UWP, and Web. In this post, we will see how we can release a React native Android application to Google play store with custom app signing, custom app version configured from Azure DevOps pipeline build number. Sounds interesting, right?

Prerequisites

  1. Make sure you have a React native application. You can follow this doc to create a dummy application.
  2. Azure DevOps

Create a dummy android pipeline

Go to Pipelines in Azure DevOps and click on New pipeline, select Azure Devops, select your repository. In the Configure your pipeline section, select Android.

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Create a dummy android pipeline

Rename your YAML file and click save. You don’t have to run your pipeline yet.

Application Configuration

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Sibeesh Venu
Sibeesh Venu

Written by Sibeesh Venu

An engineer by profession and writer by passion. Author at Sibeesh Passion, Microsoft MVP (2016–2022). Software Engineer @ Microsoft