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I have a question regarding the new Play Developer Console functions (Alpha & Beta Testing) , maybe somebody has some experience with it.
I invited some testers by GoogleGroups and they are receiving the invitation and can accept it.
I want to test a paid app. Do they have to pay for testing? this app is unpublished in the store yet but.
I have doubts to set it to free and later I cannot change to paid app.
any suggestions how to proceed?
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Open Play Console and go to the Closed testing page (Testing > Closed testing). Select Manage track. Select the Testers tab.
Managing Testers for Alpha TestingThe list of defined email addresses will be eligible for testing the app, here you can a control whom to provide the app for testing. Hence, this is known as Closed Testing .
On the left menu,select Release management > App releases. Next, to the closed track, select Manage. Next to "Choose a testing method," select Closed Testing. In the "Users" section, check the box next to the list you want to use.
According to our tests, the brand new beta testing mechanism allows the beta testers to see in Google Play the beta version that you have published instead of the production version. But the payment is not affected: If the app is a paid one, beta testers will have to pay for it, beta or not. In other words, beta testers don't get a paid app for free.
So if you want to distribute the app without them paying, then you should distribute it outside of Google Play (email the apk for instance).
Beware that if you use Android Licensing API to protect your app, then you'll need to add the beta testers emails in the list of test accounts in the Google Play console > settings > Gmail accounts with testing access.
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