android gradle/gradlew command line build for creating apk

Question

In Android, I don't want to use Android Studio.

Is there an android gradle/gradlew command for creating a release apk, which could be used to sign and upload to play store.

I tried ./gradlew build

this gives "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" but doesn't creates an apk.

Please refer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50705658/how-to-sign-an-apk-through-command-line — Vir Rajpurohit, Oct 15 '18 at 06:01
Possible duplicate of [How to sign an apk through command line](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50705658/how-to-sign-an-apk-through-command-line) — Faysal Ahmed, Oct 15 '18 at 06:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 15 '18 at 06:34

you should add your signingConfig in your build.gradle file like this :

signingConfigs {
        signConfig {
            keyAlias '****'
            keyPassword '*****'
            storeFile file('******')
            storePassword '*****'
        }
    }

and use this command if you are in windows : grdalew assembleRelease or this if you are in mac : ./gradlew assembleRelease

please note that if you add signingConfigs in your gradle file, the gradle will automatically sign APK for you and if you don't, the gradle will build unsigned APK and you can sign it later.

android gradle/gradlew command line build for creating apk

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