Additionally, you need to create a service account that is authorized to manage your app(s) releases on your behalf and can be used to authenticate 'headlessly' from your VSTS build/release definitions. In order to automate the release of app updates to the Google Play store, you need to have manually released at least one version through the Google Play Developer Console.
This extension supports Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2017 and later. This can reduce the effort needed to keep your internal test, alpha, beta, rollout and production deployments up-to-date, since you can simply push changes to the configured source control branches, and let your automated build take care of the rest. This extension contains a set of deployment tasks which allow you to automate the release, promotion and rollout of app updates to the Google Play store from your CI environment. Visual Studio Team Services Extension for Google Play
