Is there a way to test an app before actually publishing it on Play Store?

Question

I just finished up my game and it contains ads. Up til now I have tested my game with only test ads that are provided by Unity out of the box that are of Unity. I wanted to ask how do I publish my game on Google Play Store so that I can get the game to show real ads? Basically I wanted to test my app just for this, to see whether I get real ads upon publishing or not. Thank you.

Answer 1

There's a "beta testing" option, the actual options available are; internal, closed, and open test options that you can use when you upload the.apk file to the google store.

More about it here

The closed/internal one is the one you'd probably be interested in, with the closed one, you actually need to invite people who have a gmail account, so perhaps the internal testing is what you should be look at.