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Automating android application signing and zipaligning with maven

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This is something that has had me tearing my hair out for a few days now, I was pretty much border-line braveheart-ing my screen….

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I’ve recently been on a little drive to try to maven-ize my projects. All had been going well until I needed to sign and zipalign my APKs. This post will help you conquer that barrier with the use of some maven plugins.

When using ant, I was able to simply enter keystore details into build.properties and just call “ant release”. Unfortunately that approach doesn’t carry across to maven, and you have to provide some more configuration.

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Android; Continuous integration, all made lovely with Maven

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Lets face it, the eclipse ADT plugin is great for getting an android application up and running quickly, but if you want an easier way to get libraries, and a continuous intergration environment for robust automated testing and building, then maven is the way to go.

IntelliJ have recently released the Early Access Program to their version X of IDEA, this comes with Android support in the community edition, meaning we’re no longer bound to using eclipse for Android development!

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