Google Play Store error 403 File 'BundleConfig.pb' was not found

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Today I had a serious issue with uploading my app to Google Play Store - with error 403 and message:
We have failed to run ‘bundletool build-apks’ on this Android App Bundle. Please ensure your bundle is valid by running ‘bundletool build-apks’ locally and try again. Error message output: File ‘BundleConfig.pb’ was not found.
Being new to Volt I had no idea what I was doing wrong so it took me some time to dig up the solution which was really simple. So for all of you that might experience a similar problem, the solution is to add the following line to your voltbuilder.json file:
“androidPackageType”: “bundle”,

Actually, I found the answer on this very forum at https://voltbuilder.discoursehosting.net/t/android-application-bundles-aab/657, however since I was googling for the error, I hope this post will help others that do the same.

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Good find - thank you for posting this!

We will add a check to VoltBuilder to make this easier for the next person who has this problem.

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Unless there is something I’m unaware of, I would recommend ignoring androidPackageType’s value and just force it to be “bundle” if the googlePlayTrack is “production”. AFAIK it must be “bundle” if the track is production.

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The user might also want to make a release apk (instead of aab), for posting to something like the Amazon store.

However, your suggestion is a good one. We’ll give that a try. We’ll have to document how to make a release apk.