It appears that a few things have changed when building a production app with Capacitor 3. Previously you were able to use the CLI to sign and build your release version of the APK, but now it appears that you need to use the Android Studio IDE to do so. I am unable to figure out how to build my ap…

Capacitor has never allowed to build signed APKs from the CLI. If the Build → Generate Signed Bundle / APK is greyed out, there is probably something wrong with your project, try clicking the “Sync Project with Gradle Files” (elephant icon)

Sorry, my original post wasn’t more clear. I had recently updated my project from Cordova to Capacitor 3, so I was unaware that with Capacitor you were required to use the IDE to compile now for Android. This is what I was previously seeing when loading the app in Android Studio: [Screen Shot 202…

who said capacitor app can’t be build using CLI… Just check out For debug, debug-production build use the below methods run ionic capacitor copy android or ionic capacitor copy android --prod from your root project. and then run ./gradlew assembleDebug from ‘android’ folder located in root …

In case I was not clear, it’s not possible from Capacitor CLI. Of course you can use gradle, fastlane or other CLI tooling to build apps, but not Capacitor CLI.

Yes sorry for misunderstanding … I am using ionic cli…Not capacitor cli…But building is possible through any one cli as per the thread question

This is just what I was looking for. Does the assembleRelease command compile the app into the newly required .aab file for the Google Play Store? If so, are the jarsigner and zipalign commands still used to sign the .aab file? Edit: This page may now be out of date since the Play Store is no lo…

Building Android App with Capacitor 3

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mani0011 August 31, 2021, 3:12pm 8

Ofcourse you can
.gradlew assembleRelease for apk build and
.gradlew bundleRelease for aab build
And get your app from appropriate path for signing

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Building Android App with Capacitor 3

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