Specifying output location when assembling an Android project with Gradle via Terminal?

Question

I'm trying to automate the build and upload process for a signed APK of an Android app without using Android Studio, so I'm running everything in Terminal. The first command is:

./gradlew assembleRelease

Which generates an unsigned, unaligned APK in the /APP NAME/build/outputs/apk folder. However, since APP NAME won't be the same for every app, I can't just hard code the location of the output file into the next step of signing it. Are there any arguments I can use with the gradlew command to specify an output directory and file name of my choice?

Aggress

assembleRelease signs the app - what additional steps are you doing to the final APK? – Wellchosen

After signing the app, it needs to be zipaligned and then uploaded to a server. – Aggress

Hi , have you found the way to specify an output location upon assembling with terminal ? – Lamdin

Take a look here: #22833797 – Mott

Answer 1

There is no such command to specify the output.But you can write a script to make this possible.As you have got the /build/outputs/app-release.apk, you can copy and rename it to everywhere you want.

Degauss

where can he get output path? If you know the answer you are welcome to answer my similar question here – Embodiment

Answer 2

you can dynamically append some script to that build file(build.gradle) to set the buildDir of any project.

for example:

allprojects {
  buildDir = System.properties['user.home']+"/"+project.name;
}

Demitria