How to create an Android App Bundle on the terminal?

Question

1) Creating and signing android Apks by the terminal has always been relatively easy. But now with the new form "Bundle" I’m catching quite a lot.

today I use the following:

Cordova build android --release

I create the key, and then:

jarsigner zipalign...

and so I create the APK...

2) But for the turning part in . AAB, I have searched the net where I found a lot of things by half or that does not work, Mindorks, SO Eng

For example I have tried to install this "gradlew" but nobody talks about its installation and use. Only that it is necessary. trading in kids after two weeks I’m totally lost...

or be my question eh: How to create an Android App Bundle on terminal ?

thank you.

Answer 1

To create "app Bundle" from the command line, when using Cordova for example, just go to the folder where Cordova created "Platform".

In my case it’s in:

/User/Mila/projects/Myapp/Platforms/android

1) Then, run the gradelw that is in this folder, to create the . Aab !!!
simple as that! that is to say:

./gradlew bundleRelease

(remember 1: as I use Ordova, for the gradlew to be properly configured, it is necessary to run the command "Cordova build android", at least once)

(remember 2: in iMac gradlew must have execution/program attribute)

(remember 3: this also already signs the package, ie no longer need to create a signature key with the "jarsigner"!!)

READY take your file . Aab at: /User/Mila/projetos/Myapp/Platforms/android/app/build/outputs/Bundle/release/app-release.Aab

and put it in your favorite folder.

2) I would just like to comment on an important point: to send to google I need to use the zipalign

zipalign -f -v 4 app-release.Aab Myapp-release.Aab

that is, for the complete solution, there are only 2 commands in the terminal!