StatusedGoogle Play Console Monitoring
Track your Android app releases with Google Play Console APIs and email forwarding for complete visibility into rollouts and approvals.
Overview
Statused keeps tabs on your Android apps and translates status changes into clear notifications for your team. We monitor through Google Play Console APIs, with optional email forwarding to catch updates the API misses.
How We Track Release Status
You have two monitoring options: Google Play Console API only, or API plus email forwarding for better coverage.
API-Only Monitoring
The Google Play Console API gives us these basic statuses:
- Draft: New app update created but not submitted for review yet
- In Progress: Phased rollout configured and submitted for Google's review
- Halted: Developer paused a phased rollout
- Completed: Full rollout configured and submitted for review
Here's the catch: these statuses only show what you configured, not what's actually happening after submission. It's a known limitation in the Google Play ecosystem. Check out Google Play API Limitations for the technical details.
Get the Full Picture with Email Forwarding
Want more accurate status updates? Set up email forwarding from Google Play Console. This unlocks additional statuses we can track:
- Phased Rollout Is In Progress: Google approved your app and it's rolling out to users gradually
- Phased Rollout Halted: You or your team paused the phased rollout
- Phased Rollout Finished: Rollout completed and the app is live for everyone
- Live: Google approved your app and it's available to all users in the Play Store
- Rejected: Google rejected your app during review. Time to fix issues and resubmit
Follow our step-by-step guide: Google Play Email Forwarding.
Choose Your Tracks
Pick which distribution tracks to monitor: internal, alpha, beta, production. Monitor just production for release notifications, or include beta tracks if your QA team needs those updates too.
Phased Rollout Monitoring
Statused gives you full visibility into Google Play staged rollouts. Whenever the rollout state changes, you'll get a notification in Slack or your webhook with the details.
What Gets Tracked
| Event | Example notification |
|---|---|
| Rollout starts | "Your phased rollout is active and you are currently rolling out your app update to 5% of your users." |
| Percentage increases | Same as above, with the updated percentage (e.g. 5% → 20% → 50%) |
| Rollout halted | "Your phased rollout has been halted at 20% and your update is no longer rolling out to users." |
| Rollout resumed | "Your phased rollout has been resumed and your update is rolling out to users again. You are currently rolling out your app update to 20% of your users." |
| Rollout completes (100%) | "Your phased rollout is complete and your app update has rolled out to 100% of users." |
Tip: Use a Small Initial Rollout Instead of Managed Publishing
If you use Managed Publishing to control when your app goes live after approval, be aware that Google's API does not expose a distinct "approved" status — so there's no reliable way to detect that moment programmatically. See Known Limitations for details.
A common workaround is to skip Managed Publishing and instead set your initial rollout to a very small percentage (e.g. 1%). When Google approves your app and it goes live to that 1%, Statused detects the change and sends a notification. This gives you a near-instant "approved" signal with minimal user exposure, and you can then decide whether to ramp up to 100%.