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Michael Brooks commented on CB-7665:
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Hi [~websteve],
I'm by no means an expert at Android development and I was hoping that some of
my (stumbled by) success would help you as well!
I think it's suspicious that running {{cordova build android --release}} only
generates:
{noformat}
/myApp/platforms/android/ant-build/myApp-release-unsigned.apk
{noformat}
When I run the same comment, it will also generate:
{noformat}
/myApp/platforms/android/ant-build/myApp-release.apk
{noformat}
Have you updated {{platforms/android/project.properties}} with your keystore
information? In the Android [Auto Release
Mode|http://developer.android.com/tools/building/building-cmdline.html#AutoReleaseMode]
documentation, they explain that you must specify the keystore and alias. When
this is done correctly, you will be prompted for your keystore password after
running {{cordova build android --release}}.
{noformat}
# file: /myApp/platforms/android/project.properties
# your path and alias may be different from this
key.store=../../../path/to/your/myApp.keystore
key.alias=myApp
{noformat}
You can also test with the Android tooling by running:
{noformat}
$ cd myApp/platforms/android
$ ant release
{noformat}
[~bowserj] is correct that Cordova does not yet support release steps. Some
platforms have implemented the {{--release}} flag, but there is no consistent
way to do it on all of the platforms. Eventually that'll happen. However,
because the Android {{--release}} flag uses {{ant release}} under the hood, we
can get release builds happening with just a little bit of work.
> Release process for Google Play has no documentation, requires guesswork!
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CB-7665
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-7665
> Project: Apache Cordova
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Android, CLI, Docs
> Affects Versions: 3.5.0
> Environment: Mac OS X Lion
> Reporter: Steve Husting
> Labels: patch
> Fix For: 3.5.0
>
>
> I output my myApp version 12 project with: cordova build android --release
> It was output as myApp/platforms/android/ant-build/myApp-release-unsigned.apk
> I changed the name to the final apk name: myApp-release-unsigned.apk =
> myApp.apk
> I copied the myApp.keystore file used on earlier myApps to the same folder.
> Starting with that folder, I ran: jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA
> -digestalg SHA1 -keystore myApp.keystore myApp.apk myApp
> I successfully verified it with: jarsigner -verify -verbose -certs myApp.apk
> When I uploaded the myApp.apk to Google Play, it said that the file needed to
> be zipaligned.
> The verbose output shows zipalign being done. So is there a bug when the apk
> is made via cordova build android --release?
> Is there a step missing that I should be taking? Unfortunately, all the
> instructions for this on the Internet assume I'm not using Cordova.
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