How to submit PlayStore app access credentials for google sign in authentication?

Question

I have an app where a user needs to log in with a google account & purchase premium (play billing) for accessing premium features. Everything works perfectly.

Recently playstore force developers to submit app credentials to test if the app has certain functions which require authentication.

If my app has a normal email and password for auth then I'll submit to google play a test user's e-mail and password from my backend server. But now It's Google Sign in. I don't know any test google account which uses app reviewers. The doc has no information about that.

In this situation, should I have to submit my personal google account and password to review app authentication (because it was added to the test licence in the GooglePlay developer console)?

or there is some test google email account from (playstore app reviewer) for whitelisting on my server-side?

Answer 1

You Just need to tell them to "login using Google Account" in "Any other instruction" field, as shown below, you don't have to create a test account for this. I tried this many times before.

Answer 2

So I was stuck on this issue for about a whole month, I couldn't update my production app.

Google documentation clearly state that Note that you do not need to provide credentials if your app supports "Sign-in with Google,” which enables the crawler to log in automatically. However this was not the case for me.

I tried:

1. Going with the 1st option that - No special access is required. - Never worked
2. 2nd option - Stating the the app requires Google login (didn't submit any credentials). - Never worked

Eventually, what worked was - I created another email account on my mobile device. Then submitted the credentials to Google.

Point to note - ensure the email account you create doesn't contain any 2 factor authentication or verification as this won't work.

Answer 3

I noticed that you do not need to do this in the case of a Google account.

If you see the pre-launch reports in the Google Play console, and watch the replay of the test, you will see that when the Google Play robot encounters the Google Account login screen, they will have an account with a @cloudtestlabaccounts.com email that they will use to login as seen on the below image:

As you can see, Google Play robots have Google accounts available to them to login and therefore you do not need to put as special access, unless if you are using non-Google accounts to login.

I personally use Google Accounts as login and never submitted any login information and they didn't have any issue with this.