As a developer you know that delivering Android apps can be a pain in the neck.
Preparing builds, signing the release, messing with the store — all this stuff requires extra effort that you could spent on coding
But what if I told you that you can set the whole process within 15 minutes with just 3 actions:
This is called Continuous Delivery: a process that allows developers to produce valid builds ready to be published to the app store on a single push to a branch.
And this is exactly what Buddy does.
Objective of this guide is to show you how easy it can be to configure a delivery process for your android projects with Buddy.
Step 1: Build APK on every push
The basic concept of Buddy’s development automation are Pipelines. Pipelines have steps called actions. There are three dedicated actions for Android Continuous Delivery:
- Build APK
- Sign APK
- Publish to Google Play
Let’s start with adding a pipeline that will be executed on every push to the Master branch: