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I have searched online but couldn't find anything relating to bundletool.jar. I have tried to "invalidate chaches/restart", and have also downloaded gradle manualy, and pointed to the folder, but nothing seems to work.

The Amazon Appstore supports the Android App Bundle file format for app submission. The Appstore receives your app bundle and generates APKs. Amazon Appstore uses bundletool (version 1.11) to convert the app bundle files into optimized APKs that can be downloaded and installed across client devices. The size of the APK file that a customer installs is optimized for their device configuration.

You can submit your Android App Bundle files to the Appstore, without the need to create separate APKs. However, app bundle files must meet Amazon Appstore's submission requirements. For detailed explanations of app requirements, see Understanding Amazon Appstore Submission and Amazon Appstore Presubmission Checklist.

Before you can submit an app bundle on the Amazon Appstore, you must create an Android App Bundle (AAB) file. For information about configuring app bundle files, see About Android App Bundles in the Android developer documentation.

Before submitting your app, the Amazon Appstore recommends testing your bundle locally by using bundletool. When you submit an app bundle, Amazon uses a customized bundletool to generate optimized APKs from the bundle. The size of the generated APKs are optimized for each user's specific device. To test the APKs that Amazon's customized bundletool generates, you can download and use this bundletool JAR:

In your preferred shell, if you choose, you can set java -jar bundletool.jar to have a command line alias of bundletool. Use the instructions specific to your preferred shell to set up an alias. With the alias set up, the command would look as follows.

For more details on how to generate an APK from your app bundle with bundletool, see the bundletool documentation . After testing your bundle locally, the Appstore recommends you use Live App Testing (LAT) with your app bundle before submitting your app to be published live.

You can adjust the devices supported by your bundle on the Target Your App screen. For details, see Supported devices. For more information on the app submission process, see Submitting Apps to the Amazon Appstore.