
The Gradle Play Publisher plugin by Triple-T allows you to automatically upload your APK and app details to the Google Play Store as part of a build! Gradle Maven Push So you’ve built your app and it’s ready for release, but now you have to go through the tedious process of uploading your APK to the Google Play Store.Īt Google I/O 2014, Google announced a new API for uploading/publishing your Android APKs, which makes it much easier to get your apps live. You can even manage your versioning scheme, for example using Semantic Versioning, tagging versions in Git as part of each release! Gradle Play Publisher The gradle-git plugin offers a set of plugins supporting interaction with Git within Gradle including managing your release process, general Git actions, and even publishing to a Github Pages website. Gradle Git Pluginĭo you use Git or GitHub to store and collaborate around code? How do you manage and tag your app’s version numbers? It’s often useful to interact with Git when developing and releasing Android apps, and it’s now possible to do this using Gradle plugins! We use this Gradle plugin in the Bugsnag for Android build process to make sure all collaborators have an up-to-date Android SDK. The Android SDK Manager plugin from the awesome Jake Wharton will automatically manage these SDK dependencies for you before running gradle build and other common Gradle build actions. They’re especially painful when you have multiple developers on a project or you’re using continuous integration tools, like Travis CI or Jenkins that must be kept up-to-date. These are all typical problems that you shouldn’t have to deal with. Is your Android SDK missing? Is the API level not downloaded? Or maybe your support library’s out-of-date? Here are a few essential plugins which should help speed up your Android app development process! Android SDK Manager Plugin You can easily add plugins to your build scripts to help with various common tasks. 4.0.0 com.example de. 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT apk Maven Example android 2.2.1 provided $ src .android.generation2 android-maven-plugin 3.1.1 true .android.One of the best things about Gradle is its extensibility.
