This is an example of how to build an APK using GitHub Actions. Here, we created a simple Android application that displays a Hello World!. We then created a workflow that builds the APK and uploads it as a new release.
You maybe not want to auto-build APK for every push, so you can change the workflow to run on every push to a specific branch. For example, you can change the workflow to run on every push to the main branch suppose that you are working on dev branch in development mode.
Another idea is to write a comment in this issue to trigger the workflow. By this way, you can ask workflow to build APK for you any time you want.
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name: Build project after push
on:
push:
branches:
- main
jobs:
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: set up JDK 11
uses: actions/setup-java@v3
with:
java-version: '11'
distribution: 'temurin'
cache: gradle
- name: Grant execute permission for gradlew
run: chmod +x gradlew
- name: Build with Gradle
run: ./gradlew build
- name: Build debug APK
run: bash ./gradlew assembleDebug --stacktrace
- name: Check files
run: ls -al app/build/outputs/apk/debug
- name: Create Release
id: create_release
uses: actions/create-release@v1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
with:
tag_name: ${{ github.run_number }}
release_name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }} v${{ github.run_number }}
- name: Upload Release APK
id: upload_release_asset
uses: actions/upload-release-asset@v1.0.1
env:
GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.TOKEN }}
with:
upload_url: ${{ steps.create_release.outputs.upload_url }}
asset_path: app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
asset_name: ${{ github.event.repository.name }}.apk
asset_content_type: application/vnd.android.package-archiveCheck out the workflow for more details.