Android (Native)

🤖 Native Android (Gradle)

For native Android applications built using Kotlin or Java, the Gradle build system packages compiled applications into either APKs or AAB (Android App Bundle) formats.

📁 Typical Build Paths

Depending on your Gradle build type and flavor options, output paths are:

• Android APK (Debug): ./app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
• Android APK (Release): ./app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
• Android AAB (Release): ./app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab

⚙️ Setup & Link

Initialize BuildShare in your project root pointing to your native Gradle build directories:

buildshare init \
  --project-name "Native Android App" \
  --package-name "com.example.nativeandroid" \
  --android-path "./app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk"

🤖 Fast Automation

Compile your release build and upload it directly in a single pipeline:

# Assemble Release APK and upload
./gradlew assembleRelease && buildshare upload android --no-confirm

# Assemble Release AAB (App Bundle) and upload
./gradlew bundleRelease && buildshare upload android --file ./app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab --no-confirm

💡 Gradle Integration Example

You can add a custom Gradle task to your app/build.gradle to invoke BuildShare CLI automatically whenever a release build completes:

tasks.register('distributeToBuildShare', Exec) {
    dependsOn 'assembleRelease'
    workingDir "../"
    commandLine 'npx', 'buildshare', 'upload', 'android', '--no-confirm'
}

Now, simply run:

./gradlew distributeToBuildShare