Image: bitbucketpipelines/android-ci-image In the example below we cache the gradle dependencies. Tip: Use caching to speed up subsequent execution. Add the following snippet to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file The workflow in this guide uses two parallel steps to build a debug and production an Android Application Package (APK). You can configure your variables by navigating to Repository settings > Pipelines > Settings > Repository variables. You'll learn where to get the values for these variables later.

The alias name of the key in your key store Password to your java key store with your signing key The API key for your google service account with permissions to publish to Google Play.īase64 encoded contents of the Java KeyStore file containing your code signing certificate. Pipelines variablesĭuring the pipeline execution we will use a couple of environment variables that you'll need to setup. The last three steps are triggered manually in order to provide more control over the release process. Building the application for production.Building the debug application (debug version) for testing.The pipeline configuration will consist of several steps:

Simply navigate to your repository and click on Settings, and under Pipelines click on Settings again, selecting the toggle to enable Pipelines. Create a Google Play application in your accountīitbucket Pipelines should also be enabled in your repository.Prerequisitesīefore publishing your Android application using Pipelines, you need to do a couple of things: Setting up CI/CD for your Android app lets you automate much of your development process, resulting in higher velocity development with less bugs and defects, and new features getting into the hands of your customers faster.īitbucket Pipelines can be used to automatically build and test your Android application, and this guide will show you how to do this through a workflow that includes internal, alpha, beta, and production processes, using a simple demo application (source code available here).

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