I have built a flutter app and i want that our testers will test the app through internal testing in google play using the test database and test api url.

This is doable but it has a drawback. In google play, you can actually use the same build that was published in internal testing to be published as a release version. Since I am using a test database and api on the build, i have to change the settings to use live version and build the apk and upload it again to google play to do so. So whenever i want to have a new release, i need to submit atleast 2 builds.

Do you think this process is proper? If not, do you have any recommendation on how i can share the app to my testers that uses test environment. I have done things like sharing apk manually on microsoft teams but it doesn't feel like the right thing to do according to me.

CodePudding user response：

Well, the best approach would be to create a new flavor for your dev environment instead of just building with differentet variables. Then you can create a new app at appstore named "yourapp dev" with different bundle id, e.g com.yourapp.app.dev and upload your dev builds to internal track of the new dev app. If you don't want to create a new dev app to playstore for distributing, you can also use firebase distribution to share your apk/ipa.