App Store Manager Documentation
  • Documents
    • First steps
      • Overview
      • How to work with the App Store Manager?
      • Common Obstacles
    • Access
      • App Store Connect access
      • Google Play Console access
      • Manage credentials
      • Team Management
        • Permissions
        • Locking/unlocking
    • Edit, translate and upload
      • Supported languages
      • Upload metadata
      • Screenshot and asset upload
      • Automatic translation
    • Import and export
      • Import from store
      • Import from file
      • File import and export
      • Export to file
    • Release Notes Creation
      • Android Release Notes creation
    • Phrase and Lokalise
      • Typical use cases
      • Export Phrase translations to the Stores
      • Import App Store Metadata to Phrase
      • Import App Store Metadata to Lokalise
    • Account and Subscriptions
      • User account
      • Subscriptions
  • Video tutorials
    • How to create API access to Google Play Console
    • How to grant API key access to Apple App Store Connect
    • How to upload my app descriptions
    • How to create Android Release Notes
    • Team Management
  • FAQ
    • Android
      • How to create API access to Google Play Console
      • What if my app is not in a production state?
      • But the Google Play Console offers a translation!
    • iOS
      • How to grant API key access to Apple App Store Connect
      • Are updates working if my app is in a ready “READY FOR SALE” state?
      • Are multiple teams for my Apple account supported?
      • Is two-factor-authentication supported?
      • Updating promotion texts
    • General
      • App Store Manager questions
        • Which stores are supported?
        • What do you mean by “managing” app descriptions?
        • How to use the App Store Manager?
        • Who uses the App Store Manager?
        • Parallel usage of the App Store Manager
      • Translations & languages
        • What is the difference between Google Translate?
        • How good are your translations?
        • What is the source language?
      • Store handling and upload
        • What about the store policies?
        • How to upload my app descriptions?
        • How long should my texts be?
        • Is my store metadata overwritten when I hit save?
        • Ampersand “&” within the automatic translation
        • What if an error occurs?
        • How to set up my store credentials/ login?
        • Which app information do I have to provide?
  • App Store Manager
    • Changelog
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File import and export

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To import metadata or screenshots, we offer various file templates.

Hint: for the import to work, keep the file structure. Also, keywords such as country codes. The order of the languages can vary. Omit unnecessary languages or fields.

Metadata file templates

Use these templates to import your metadata into the App Store Manager

Screenshot/ asset templates

Use the following file templates (and their included folder structure) to import assets like screenshots (iOS & Android) or icons and feature graphics (Android only) to the stores. See the instruction on how to .

How to prepare the screenshot/ asset templates?

Download the required template from above. Unpack it to a location of your choice.

The unwrapped folder (referred as top-level folder) should look like this:

Hint: the files vary between iOS and Android. Especially the subfolders are different

Android:

iOS:

Add your screenshots to the corresponding language and resolution folders.

For example, if you want to upload English screenshots for the American market, add them to “en-US”. If you want to upload iPhone 6.5-inch screenshots only, add them to the “iphone-65” folder and leave the other folders empty.

For Android, place the mobile screenshots in the “mobile” folder.

Name your images from 1.png to 8.png (Android) or 1.png to 10.png (iOS). Hint: Both JPG and PNG files are supported.

Prepare the file for upload

To prepare the contents for the upload, create a ZIP (compressed)-archive. Navigate to the top level of your working folder. This is the level that displays the language folders. Select all of them and create a single compressed ZIP file.

Hint: The structure of the file must be correct. I.e., it happens that the parent folder is packed as well. Thus the upload will not work.

Validate your archive file by opening it. It should direct display the language folders. If there is an enclosing folder within the archive, you likely have compressed the wrong structure.

A wrong and not supported structure of the compressed archive could look like this:

Hint: if you have any questions or require a different structure, please feel free to contact us.

Android JSON file template
Android Excel file template
iOS JSON file template
iOS Excel template
provide the files here
Android screenshot and asset file template
iOS screenshot and file template
Screenshot/ asset file template
Android subfolders which contain assets
iOS subfolders
Screenshot naming
Top-level working folder
How a correct compressed file looks like (not all possible languages are shown above)
Unsupported structure