Ionic & Capacitor

⚡ Ionic & Capacitor

Capacitor executes web assets inside highly optimized native Android and iOS wrapper apps. You first build your modern web front-end assets, sync them to the native platforms, and then invoke native compiling tasks.

📁 Typical Build Paths

• Android APK: ./android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk
• iOS IPA: ./ios/App/App/Outputs/Release/App.ipa

⚙️ Setup & Link

Initialize BuildShare inside the main root folder of your project:

buildshare init \
  --project-name "My Ionic App" \
  --package-name "com.example.ionicapp" \
  --android-path "./android/app/build/outputs/apk/release/app-release.apk" \
  --ios-path "./ios/App/App/Outputs/Release/App.ipa"

🤖 NPM Scripts Automation

Add these robust scripts to your project's package.json to compile and distribute updates in one simple task:

{
  "scripts": {
    "build:web": "ionic build",
    "sync:native": "npx cap sync",
    "distribute:android": "npm run build:web && npm run sync:native && npx cap open android --run-gradlew assembleRelease && buildshare upload android --no-confirm"
  }
}

Now you can run the distribution flow locally or inside CI/CD with:

npm run distribute:android