Before AppNatively can build your app and send it to the stores, several separate pieces have to be in place – your app’s identity, the signing credentials each store requires, the accounts you’ll submit through, and your Firebase configuration. This category is a checklist as much as it is a set of articles: each one is a single line item, explained in full, and the build wizard checks them all before it lets you continue.
What Publishing Setup covers
Start with What you need before your first build – it lays out the whole checklist in one place, with a link to each thing that needs doing. From there, the articles work through them one at a time: your app’s name, slug, and package ID; Android signing and your keystore; iOS certificates and provisioning; the Google Play and App Store accounts AppNatively submits through; and Firebase Configuration, which is required for every build whether or not you ever send a push notification.
Two of these deserve a careful read rather than a skim – your package ID and your signing credentials both become very hard to change once your app is live in a store.
Before you start
You’ll need an app icon set under Splash & App Icon – it’s one of the requirements the build wizard checks, and the quickest of them to knock out.