Play Console

Google Play Console is Google's web console at play.google.com/console for publishing and managing Android apps, from uploading a bundle to answering policy questionnaires.

The layout follows a release, more or less. Release holds your tracks (production, open, closed and internal testing), the releases overview, the app bundle explorer, and Setup, where app signing and internal app sharing live. Grow holds the store listing, custom listings and store settings. Monetise holds products, subscriptions and pricing. Policy holds App content, which is where Data safety, content rating, target audience and ads declarations sit, plus your policy status and any warnings.

Two things are account level rather than app level, and people hunt for them. Users and permissions, which is where you grant access including to service accounts. And API access, which links your Play Console to a Google Cloud project.

That last one points at the console's real quirk. Automating Play spans two separate Google products. The credential is created in the Google Cloud console; the permission that makes it useful is granted in Play Console. Neither site tells you about the other, and a service account that works in one and not the other is almost always missing the second half.

Console labels move around between redesigns, so treat any exact path as a hint.

See also: track, Play service account, Data safety.