KeystoreProperties.load(new FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile)) Load your keystore.properties file into the keystoreProperties object. Initialize a new Properties() object called keystoreProperties.ĭef keystoreProperties = new Properties() keystore.properties file, in the rootProject folder.ĭef keystorePropertiesFile = rootProject.file('keystore.properties') Create a variable called keystorePropertiesFile, and initialize it to your Next we go to the adle and add these lines to read the keystore.properties file and it’s variables In your keystore.properties, we just need to store the sensitive info and this file will be accessible only to people who are part of the project. You just need to add few lines of code in your app level adle file and create a file called keystore.properties Most Open source apps use this as a way to put their code out for everyone to view and sucessfully hide any private keys and password. Using the Signing configs offered by gradleįirst of all the signing configs in gradle is a great way to do this. So since I was building the app using the terminal and I didn’t have the luxury of signing the app using Android studio and I had to look for alternatives.

Recently while making the Open Event Apk generator, I had to make release apk’s, so that they could be used by an event organiser to publish their app, plus apk’s had to be signed because if they were not signed, it would be impossible to upload due to checks by Google. The generate apk option in android studio If anyone of you has deployed an application on the play store, you may have most probably used Android Studio’s built in Generate signed apk option.

Android studio build apk file