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How to update app version for Play store.

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1, Using [highlight]ApKTOOL[/highlight] app, navigate to your [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder, click on it then select the 'play store'.apk you wish to update, mines called taxi (obviously yours will be different so from now on certain folders I reference I will write 'your app name') click on it and select [highlight]decompile resources[/highlight] and wait for it to do its thing...you then should get a pop up like this...

Click OK.

You should now have a new folder called [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] like so...

Use your file explorer for step 2.

2, Depending on what you are updating....

If you're adding a [highlight]klwp.Zip/s[/highlight] to a collection then copy the extra [highlight]klwp.Zip/s[/highlight] you want to add from [highlight]kustom/wallpaper folder[/highlight] then goto [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder then click on [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] then [highlight]assets[/highlight] select [highlight]wallpapers[/highlight] and paste the [highlight]klwp.zip/s[/highlight] here.

If you are updating an existing [highlight]klwp.zip[/highlight], then firstly goto [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder then click on [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] then [highlight]assets[/highlight] select [highlight]wallpapers[/highlight] and delete the [highlight]klwp.zip[/highlight] already there, then copy your updated zip from [highlight]kustom/wallpaper folder[/highlight], navigate back to [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder then click on [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] then [highlight]assets[/highlight] select [highlight]wallpapers[/highlight] and paste the updated [highlight]klwp.zip[/highlight] here.

Exit file explorer.

3, Open [highlight]ApKTOOL[/highlight] app again from your app drawer and navigate to [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder and click on it, then select [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] folder and from the pop up select [highlight]browse [/highlight].

(You can check if your zips are in the assets/wallpapers folder if you want)

Click on [highlight]apktool.yml[/highlight] file. Open with [highlight]droid edit[/highlight] app, then this should be on your screen.

4, Edit the [highlight]version code[/highlight] to [highlight]2[/highlight] and edit the [highlight]version name[/highlight] to [highlight]1.1[/highlight] as highlighted below.

Any further versions will be increments of 1 also I.e. 3 & 1.2 etc

Now press the little icon arrowed in post#4 and press [highlight]save[/highlight]. Exit [highlight]droid edit[/highlight] app.

5, Open [highlight]ApKTOOL[/highlight] app again from your app drawer and navigate to [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder then click on [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] then click [highlight]recompile[/highlight]. You will now have a folder called [highlight]'your app name_src.apk[/highlight], click on this folder and select [highlight]zipalign[/highlight], you will now have a folder called [highlight]'your app name'_src_zipalign.apk[/highlight]

6, now open [highlight]zipsigner[/highlight] app and press the [highlight]choose in/out [/highlight] button and select the [highlight]'your app name'_src_zipalign.apk[/highlight] then press [highlight]sign the file[/highlight] (your key mode should still be the same as previously used I.e cert or your own alias) and enter your keystore password.

Exit [highlight]zipsigner [/highlight] app.

7, Open [highlight]ApKTOOL[/highlight] app again from your app drawer and navigate to [highlight]Apktool[/highlight] folder then click on it.

You should now have a [highlight]'your app name'_src_zipalign-signed.apk[/highlight], like so.

Now you can delete [highlight]'your app name'_src.apk[/highlight] and [highlight]'your app name'_src_zipalign.apk[/highlight], and also the [highlight]'your app name'_src[/highlight] folder, by long pressing on them and selecting delete.

Lastly long press on the [highlight]'your app name'_src_zipalign-signed.apk[/highlight] select [highlight]rename[/highlight] and rename it [highlight]'your app name' V1.1.apk[/highlight]

[highlight] Your updated APK is now ready to publish to the Play Store.[/highlight]

And Hey-presto..