Continuous Integration & Deployment for Android apps

Buddy
2 min readMar 7, 2018

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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:

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