{
  "id": 6875948,
  "title": "Automating Android Play Store Releases, Part 1: Signing & Version Drift",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/automating-android-play-store-releases-part-1-signing-version-drift",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-12T06:48:49.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/cynthizo/automating-android-play-store-releases-part-1-signing-version-drift-4f1k"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Part 1 of a 5-part series on automating a multi-app Android release pipeline — from a free-tier build queue to a genuine self-hosted infrastructure migration. This part covers the setup and the first two real incidents. Part 2 → covers a Play Store error that lied about its own cause, a one-line bug that invalidated an entire workflow file, and separating \"merged\" from \"released.\" Part 3 → and…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}