I want to show you a smart and simple way how you can sign and verify your release .apk with the Ionic CLI and without zipalign and/or apksigner step by step. Step 1: Add the android platform to your Ionic/Cordova project with ionic platform add android Step 2: Create your Keystore file (JavaJDK i…

[image] LoLStats: But I suggest to keep your password secret and avoid writing them in a clear text file What do you think is the best way to do this? It’s bothered me, because every tutorial I’ve read about this process recommends steps with lousy security. But I am not clear whether there…

If you host your private you can store your password in the file. If not you should remove the lines storePassword and keyPassword. The CLI asks you then to type in the passwords. On my environment, I stored the passwords in a private variable on my GitLab server. So the Build Server signs the app …

[image] LoLStats: Step 3: Create a file named release-signing.properties in the platforms/android folder with the following content As the /platforms folder is (mostly) kept out of version control (and also sometimes thrown away to fix problems via platform rm, platform add), is there a way t…

You can implement your own build script which copy’s the .properties file. My build script for the following. npm install ionic platform add ios ionic platform add android copy the property file to the platform/android folder ionic build ios --prod --release ionic build android --prod --release B…

Hello @LoLStats thanks for sharing this, I am already following exact same procedure. But I am uncertain if it also performs zipalign. I tried manually performing zipalign on the generated apk but in Android 7 it throws error -504 when installing from playstore.

That worked like a charm - thank you!

Hi I tried to generate the Keystore file using this command : keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.jks -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 -alias my-alias But I got this following error Warning: The JKS keystore uses a proprietary format. It is recommended to migrate to PKCS 12 w…

I have just spent the last six hours trying to get this to work - without success. I think the problem was the -alias my-alias in the step2. Finally I got the APK signed by using the follow (it was a lot easier):

I think it also deos zipalign - i tried zipalign on output file. everything was OK. Srf@SRF-PC C:\Users\Srf\Desktop\Last\platforms\android\app\build\outputs\apk\release $ C:\Programs\Android_SDK_Minimum\build-tools\27.0.3\zipalign.exe -v 4 app-release.apk ECD.apk Verifying alignment of ECD.apk (4).…

How to automatically sign android applications with the Ionic CLI

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Sujan12 April 22, 2017, 3:05pm 6

OK thanks, still a great improvement.

I was hoping there was something in the cordova build process for that, I remember using hooks back in the Ionic 1 days.

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