Uploading an app to your store

App uploading is possible using our V3 webservices. You can see the full documentation here. 

In order to upload an application to your store you'll need an access token. See Getting authenticated to learn how you can obtain one.

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Uploading an app

To upload an application, you need several arguments to be sent, from your store's name to the application name. Optional information will be filled with information from other markets, if no information is found an error will be returned.

• repo must be set to your store's name
• apk must contain the .apk file.  Content-Type must be set to application/vnd.android.package-archive (Optional, not needed if apk_md5sum is filled).
• description must be set as well (Optional, if in other market ).
• category is an integer value, corresponding to the application category (Optional, if in other market ). Allowed values are:

  3 - Comics 4 - Communication 5 - Entertainment 6 - Finance 7 - Lifestyle 8 - Multimedia 9 - News & Weather 10 - Productivity 11 - Reference 12 - Shopping 13 - Social 14 - Sports 15 - Themes 16 - Tools 17 - Travel 18 - Demo 19 - Software Libraries 20 - Arcade & Action (Games)         21 - Brain & Puzzle (Games)          22 - Cards & Casino (Games)          23 - Casual (Games) 24 - News & Magazines 25 - Racing 26 - Music & Audio

  27 - Photography 28 - Personalization 29 - Books & Reference 30 - Health & Fitness 31 - Media & Video 32 - Education 33 - Business 34 - Sports Games 35 - Weather 36 - Travel & Local 37 - Transportation 38 - Medical 39 - Libraries & Demo 40 - Personalisation 63 - Transport 1006 - Trivia 1007 - Puzzle 1019 - Arcade Games 1027 - Action Games 1028 - Strategy Games 1029 - Puzzle Games 1030 - Adventure Games 1031 - Word Games 1032 - Casino Games

• rating is an integer value, corresponding to the application age rating (Optional, if in other market ). Allowed values are:

  1 - All

  2 - Pre-Teen (minimal age: 10)

  3 - Teen (minimal age: 16)

  4 - Mature (minimal age: 18)

• apk_phone, apk_email and apk_website are all relative to the application's developer and must be set as well. (Optional, if in other market )
• only_user_repo is optional and defaults to false. If set to true the application gets uploaded to the official apps repository as well.
• apk_screenshot is an array of the application's screnshoots. Content-Type must be set to image/jpeg or image/png. Image width must be at least 320px. This param is optional. Max files: 10
• apk_md5sum - If set with the application file MD5 hash, the APK is uploaded ignoring the apk argument. (optional)

Example Request

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curl -X POST 'http://www.aptoide.com/webservices/3/uploadAppToRepo' \ -F "mode=json" \ -F "access_token=cGF1bG8udHJlemVudG9zQGFwdG9pZGUuY29tOkF" \ -F "repo=apps" \ -F "apk=@path/to/file.apk;type=application/vnd.android.package-archive" \ -F "apkname=My Application" \ -F "description=My Application does some fancy stuff" \ -F "category=5" \ -F "rating=1" \ -F "apk_phone=35199912032" \ -F "apk_email=[e-mail]" \ -F "apk_website=https://www.myapk.com" \ -F "only_user_repo=false" \ -F "apk_screenshot[]=@path/to/my-shot1.jpg;type=image/jpeg" \ -F "apk_screenshot[]=@path/to/my-shot2.jpg;type=image/png"

If all goes well you can check the result of the upload by accessing the app's web page url provided in the response. All possible errors are listed in the webservice's documentation.

Example Response

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{    "status": "OK",    "info": {         "icon": "http://imgs.aptoide.com/.../30527fe32ba24219e076a903b.png",         "url": "http://my-repo.store.aptoide.com/.../4/641/Pool Master",    } }

Additionally if needed you can upload an OBB file. These parameters are optional.

• obb_main is set to the Application OBB main file and will be named like this: main-(apk version code)-(apk package).obb. Content-Type must be set to "application/vnd.android.obb".
• obb_patch is set to the  Application OBB patch file and will be named like this: patch-(apk version code)-(apk package).obb. Content-Type must be set to "application/vnd.android.obb".

If using the apk_md5sum parameter OBB's can be uploaded using the following optional parameters:

• obb_main_md5sum contains the OBB main file MD5 hash.
• obb_patch_md5sum contains the OBB patch file MD5 hash.
• obb_main_filename is optional and contains the OBB main file name. If set, along with obb_main_md5sum as well, Aptoide will ignore obb_main and create a new alias OBB entry in the database with such name if needed.
• obb_patch_filename is optional and contains the OBB patch file name. If set, along with obb_patch_md5sum as well, Aptoide will ignore obb_patch and create a new alias OBB entry in the database with such name if needed.