Publish Your App – Overview

The Publish Wizard guides you through releasing your BLOCQ app on the Apple App Store and/or Google Play Store. The wizard walks you through all required steps – steps already completed are skipped automatically.

Access

You can reach the Publish Wizard via App Builder Tools → Publish App or directly via /admin/publish.

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The Phases at a Glance

1. Platform Selection

Choose iOS, Android, or both platforms.

2. App Identity

Only if no bundle ID is known yet: enter your app name (and optionally a company) – the technical app identifier is generated from it automatically.

3. Subdomain

Set the deep-link subdomain for Universal Links / App Links.

4. Store Accounts

Set up your Apple Developer Account and Google Play Console and manually create app listings.

5. Firebase Setup

Only if Firebase modules are active and no service account exists yet: upload a service account for automatic deployment.

6. Credentials

Upload API keys and service account files – stored encrypted, deleted after the build.

7. Legal Pages

Add your privacy policy, support contact, and imprint URLs – or let BLOCQ host them.

8. ASO Texts

Enter your app name, description, and keywords for each store and language.

9. Compliance

Fill in age ratings, Apple Privacy Labels, and Google Data Safety, then confirm.

10. Review & Submit

Create the admin account, review the checklist, confirm all required fields are green – and submit your app.

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Continue or Start Over

The publish flow is idempotent – you can leave it any time and continue later. Each step remembers its completion; on re-entry the wizard jumps straight to the first step that is still open.

If work already exists, the wizard shows an intermediate screen when you open it:

1. Continue? – the screen names the step you would resume at.
2. Continue takes you straight to that open step.
3. Start over returns you to platform selection. No data is deleted – you can simply overwrite your previous entries.

On the very first run (no platform selected yet) this intermediate screen does not appear – the wizard starts directly at platform selection.

Reusable at any time

Even after the first publish you can restart the wizard – for example to update ASO texts or upload new screenshots. Already completed steps are pre-filled and skipped.

When a step counts as done

A step is skipped once its result is saved – e.g. a platform chosen, the subdomain set, the service account uploaded, the legal pages saved (even “no privacy policy” counts as a deliberate, completed choice), or the compliance confirmations set for the selected platforms.

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Prerequisites

Before you start, you need:

• An Apple Developer Account (paid subscription, apple.com/developer) for iOS releases
• A Google Play Developer Account (one-time registration fee, play.google.com/console) for Android releases
• A finished App Icon (512×512 px, PNG) – create it with the App Icon Studio
• Screenshots for each platform – create them with the Screenshot Studio

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All Steps in Detail

Platform & Subdomain Choose iOS, Android, or both – and select your personal deep-link address.

Store Accounts Link developer accounts and create app listings in ASC and Play Console.

Credentials Securely upload your API key (.p8), Issuer ID, Key ID, and service account JSON.

Firebase Setup Service account for automatic Firestore rules deployment (only for Firebase modules).

Push (iOS / APNs) Android & Cloud Functions are automatic; for iOS push, upload the APNs key in Firebase and confirm (only when the notifications module is active).

Legal Pages Privacy policy, support contact, and imprint – your own URL, BLOCQ hosting, or deliberately none.

ASO Texts App name, subtitle, description, and keywords for store listings.

Compliance Age ratings, Privacy Labels, and content rating – pre-filled from your active modules.

Review & Submit Admin account, checklist, submit button, and tracking store review status.