What is gplay?

gplay is a fast, dependency-free command-line interface for the Google Play Developer API. It drives the publishing surface of Google Play — releases, tracks, reviews, store listings, compliance declarations, and team permissions — from your terminal, your CI pipeline, or an AI agent.

Every team shipping an Android app eventually hits the same wall: Fastlane supply drags a Ruby runtime into the CI image, prints output meant for humans, and exits with generic codes that make retry logic guesswork. gplay is what you'd build today if you started fresh.

Why gplay

One static binary. Written in Go, zero runtime dependencies — no Ruby, no Node, no Python. One file in your CI image, fast cold start.
Built for CI and agents. TTY-aware output (table for humans, json in pipes and CI), no interactive prompts, explicit flags, and semantic exit codes that tell scripts whether a retry is safe.
API-faithful JSON. --output json returns the raw Google Play Developer API response shape — no custom envelope to learn. The Google docs are the schema docs. See output formats.
Safe by default on production. Uploading or promoting to the production track creates a draft release unless you explicitly pass --complete or --staged <fraction>. A typo can't ship to 100% of users.

What it covers today

Namespace	What it does
`gplay auth`	Service-account credentials: login, status, doctor, multiple accounts
`gplay apps`	Local app registry, app details (contact info, default language)
`gplay releases`	Upload AABs, promote between tracks, staged rollouts (halt/resume/complete)
`gplay tracks`	List, inspect, and create release tracks; country availability
`gplay testers`	Declare the Google Groups authorized to test a track
`gplay reviews`	Read recent user reviews and reply to them
`gplay metadata`	Sync store listings (per-locale text) and store images with your repo
`gplay compliance`	Push and validate the Data Safety declaration
`gplay team`	Manage Play Console users and their per-app permission grants
`gplay schema`	Offline introspection of the Android Publisher API surface

The full, generated command reference lives at CLI reference — one page per command, produced from the binary's own --help output.

Status: public preview

gplay is pre-1.0. The surface above is implemented and usable today, and this is an invitation to test and give feedback — breaking changes are still possible before v1.0, where per-command stability labels will mark what's frozen. Development is documentation-first: design conventions and architecture decision records are public in the GitHub repository.

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Not affiliated with Google

gplay is an independent open-source project (MIT license). It uses the public Google Play Developer API and is not endorsed by, affiliated with, or sponsored by Google LLC. "Google Play" is a trademark of Google LLC.