I'm developing an app for android in flutter. Only some people will use it so I do not want to upload it to PlayStore. The problem is, I can make it an apk and install it to devices but I can not update it. Is there a way or a program like TestFlight that I can also update the app for every devices using it?

CodePudding user response：

Without uploading it is not possible, but you have the option to upload it and don't make it publicly available.

The Google Play Store equivalent of Apple's TestFlight is creating an application in the Google Play Console and set up a release that is available for testing and not available for production (live presence in the Store).

This way you app will not be publicly available and you have to add the testers manually, just as it is with TestFlight. New versions will be delivered to the user's who installed the test application. One limitation is that the users need a Google Account to participate in the resting.

You can read about the details here.

CodePudding user response：

We use firebase to distribute test builds internally, check this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/app-distribution