Good Day All! I hope you are doing Good.
From last couple of days, Me and my friends were doing comparative study of ionic3 and react-native. During that period, we were struggling to generate release mode APK for React-Native project.
Finally, we came across following solution:
Create and then copy a keystore file to android/app
keytool -genkey -v -keystore mykeystore.keystore -alias mykeyalias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
Setup your gradle variables in android/gradle.properties
MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_FILE=mykeystore.keystore
MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS=mykeyalias
MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD=*****
MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD=*****
Add signing config to android/app/build.gradle
android {
signingConfigs {
release {
storeFile file(MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_FILE)
storePassword MYAPP_RELEASE_STORE_PASSWORD
keyAlias MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_ALIAS
keyPassword MYAPP_RELEASE_KEY_PASSWORD
}
}
buildTypes {
release {
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
}
}
}
Generate your release APK:
cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease
Your APK will get generated at: android/app/build/outputs/apk/app-release.apk
Special Thanks to Tyler Buchea : http://blog.tylerbuchea.com/react-native-publishing-an-android-app/
Discussion (21)
Thanks for the tutorial! I've put up an article containing several errors that I encounter when building a release APK for React Native pretty frequently.
I love your article, thanks
Thanks mrcflorian
Hi Zilu. Follow your instructions, obtain error:
Unable to load script. Make sure you're either running a Metro server (run 'react-native start') or that your bundle 'index.android.bundle' is packaged correctly for release.
don't run debug version, to create apk release version first you must run:
npx react-native run-android --variant=release
or
react-native run-android --variant=release
Then APK can be found in android/app/build/outputs/apk/release
You get this error after running which command?
Could you please provide more details.
Hello my friend, i did the procedure above, but dont work, it show me the next message :
"Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 6.0"
Could you Please help me whit that.
I am using Expo to build my app so is there an easy way to do so in Expo? Because I don't have an
androidfolder in my directory structureHi Zilu,
If you are in Windows the last command is cd android && gradlew assembleRelease
whitout the "./"
Thanks for the article. The app was built without errors. But when I install it on my device and run the app, App keeps stopping with the message "App keeps stooping"
The online APK downloader I found at the best Apk2Down provider for you, a reliable address for every device used.
Hey, I have enabled proguard and it generated 4 different apks. How can I publish those on Google Plasystore.???
Thanks for your sharing. Thanks to that, I can create apk game mods for mobile phones. You can see hapmod.com/
build successfull,
but there is no release build,
there is only debug apk
I got only app.aab
You can easily download apk files with apk downloader in uptofast.com
Hi, i have an issue when i run last command in terminal it show Build successful but my release folder is empty
can you help me to figure it out?
check this simple example : skptricks.com/2019/06/react-native...
you can refer this article to create signed apk : skptricks.com/2019/06/react-native...