Release Android App Automatically and Securely There are mainly two steps: (1) Generate the signed apk (2) Release to the google play store. Generate the signed apk automatically: 1. (Need Help) Generate keystore file Use Command Line: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html#signing-manua… keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 Or use Android studio: https://developer.android.com/studio/publish/app-signing.html#release-mode Maybe we should generate a new, secure and stable private key for the future android development and release. WDYT? 2. (Need Help) Define gradle global values: (Gradle user home: /home/hudsonagent/.gradle in jenkins)(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18328730/how-to-create-a-releas…) To ensure the security of the keystore, we can’t directly put the key_password, key_alias, store_password values in the github source. So where do we define these values? The gradle global properties may be a good choice. First we should define some global properties for all Gradle builds in the USER_HOME/.gradle/gradle.properties. For the jenkins server, GRADLE_USER_HOME = /home/hudsonagent/.gradle. If no gradle.properties file, just create a new file and add the following properties. # android release key username and password RELEASE_STORE_FILE=F:\\xwiki\\AndroidAuthKey.jks RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD=android RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS=authenticator RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD=android I have no right to login and access the jenkins agent-1, so could you help me create the global gradle.properties file in /home/hudsonagent/.gradle and correctly set the four properties. Thanks in advance. :) 3. Add the following code to build.gradle if(project.hasProperty("RELEASE_STORE_FILE")) { signingConfigs { release { storeFile file(RELEASE_STORE_FILE) storePassword RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD keyAlias RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS keyPassword RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD } } } buildTypes { if(project.hasProperty("RELEASE_STORE_FILE")) { release { signingConfig signingConfigs.release } } } 4. Gradle clean build -> then we can generate app-release.apk signed by the keystore in jenkins. Release automatically in Google play store: 1. (Need Help) Setup for Google API access: Following this link: https://github.com/codepath/android_guides/wiki/Automating-Publishing-to-th…. Set the google api access and download the p12 key file. But I have no permission to configure API access. It shows in the google play console: <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7599946/api_access.png> So could you help me configure the API access? Or maybe should download the p12 key file. Thank you in advance. :) 2. (Need Help) Jenkins plugin Settings: (1) Install the jenkins plugin "Google Play Android Publisher plugin" (2) Add Credentials and import the p12 key file downloaded during the first step of setting up Google API access. <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7599946/add_credentials.png> 3. Add a post-build step to your existing Jenkins project. <http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/file/n7599946/post_build.png> That’s all I can think of right now. I have tried and generated the release apk in the jenkins server on my local computer. As I have no permission to configure the google play api, so now I haven’t tried the automated release. I don't know if this method is the best for the automated and secure release of the android open source project, but it should be feasible. What do you think? :) Thanks, Fitz -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/contrib-android-authenticator-About-Relea… Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.