Help with signing apk | Tauri Apps | Page 1

I know I'm supposed to follow this guide https://docs.flutter.dev/deployment/android#signing-the-app

and I had no problem while executing the first 2 steps, but I'm confused at the 3rd step.

First they ask me to edit the android/app/build.gradle file, but I was only able to find build.gradle.kts, which I assumed was similar. However they then ask me to add this

def keystoreProperties = new Properties()
def keystorePropertiesFile
rootProject.file('key.properties')
if (keystorePropertiesFile.exists()) {
keystoreProperties.load(new
FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))
}

before the android block, which doesn't exist.

I then searched for another build.gradle file, and found 2 more.

One is in android/app/app, which had the android block, but the BuildTypes block was different.

instead of getting this

buildTypes {
release {
signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
}
}

I got this

buildTypes {
    getByName("debug") {
        manifestPlaceholders["usesCleartextTraffic"] = "true"
        isDebuggable = true
        isJniDebuggable = true
        isMinifyEnabled = false
        packagingOptions {
            jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols.add("*/arm64-v8a/*.so")

            jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols.add("*/armeabi-v7a/*.so")

            jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols.add("*/x86/*.so")

            jniLibs.keepDebugSymbols.add("*/x86_64/*.so")
        }
    }
    getByName("release") {
        isMinifyEnabled = false
        proguardFiles(getDefaultProguardFile("proguard-android.txt"), "proguard-rules.pro")
    }
}

I was afraid that copy pasting the code straight from the flutter docs wouldn't work.

And the 2 build.gradle file, was also missing the android block.

So what do I do?

Build and release an Android app

How to prepare for and release an Android app to the Play store.

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