Just published Android App, Google Play not signing in

Question

I just published my first game a couple hours ago. I tested it by adding email accounts under "testers" and Google Play Sign in worked perfectly. However, after clicking publish on the game service, and publishing the app that was linked to the game service (leaderboards and achievements) I can no longer sign in!

What is the problem?!

update If I install the app from Android Studio by running the project, I can connect. However, downloaded from the play store I am unable to connect! Did I miss some sort of licencing step or something?

Answer 1

You probably published a version of your app that was signed with your local debug key to the Play Store.

As mentioned here :

You should create two client IDs, one with the release certificate fingerprint and another with the debug certificate fingerprint, and use the same package name for both. To learn more about how to specify the signing certificate in the Google Play Developer Console, see Signing Your Applications .