Cannot upload an APK built with -t app-bundle flag to google play store

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Hi everyone.

I created a new build on android using the expo cli command. The build was successful. I tried to submit the app for beta testing on the play store. I received the following error upon uploading the apk

Upload failed
Your APK cannot be analyzed using aapt. Error output:
Failed to run aapt dump badging:
ERROR: dump failed because no AndroidManifest.xml found

I am using expo 33 and just built using the following command
expo build:android --release-channel prod-v2 --non-interactive --no-publish -t app-bundle

Note: Removing the -t app-bundle flag and submitting the resulting apk fixes the problem. So something is not quite right with the build process when using app-bundle flag and I am wondering if someone has managed to submit an app successfully to the store using it.

Thanks,
Michael

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Hi

Did you try to upload .aab file directly on play store? Support for upload command for aab files was added in expo-cli@2.20.8, make sure you have at least this version. Also Android App Bundles are supported only for apps that have App Signing by Google Play enabled.

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