ionic-framework Publishing your Ionic app Building release version from macOS
Example
Build the APK
First of all we need to build the APK.
ionic build --release android
Generate private Key
Then we will create a keystore to sign the APK.
keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
- Change my-release-key with your key name.
- Change alias_name with your key alias.
Sign the APK
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore HelloWorld-release-unsigned.apk alias_name
- Change my-release-key with your key name.
- Change HelloWorld-release-unsigned with your unsigned apk.
ionic-project/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk. - Change alias_name with your key alias.
Zip the APK
zipalign -v 4 HelloWorld-release-unsigned.apk HelloWorld.apk
- You can find zipalign in
/Users/username/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/XXX/ - Change HelloWorld-release-unsigned with your unsigned apk.
ionic-project/platforms/android/build/outputs/apk. - Change HelloWorld.apk with your prefered apk file name. This will be uploaded to Google Play.
