Generate non-debug apk from ionic

Question

I am using ionic framework to generate apk for android platform.

After running ionic build android, an android-debug.apk is generated. How can I generat

Answer 1

As ionic CLI is based on cordova CLI, you can use, directly:

ionic build android --release

Also, if you are worried about optimization, you might find interesting usign zipalign, in order to align data on 4-byte boundaries, thus causing the app to reduce the amount of RAM used. Once you have build the release apk with the previous command, you can run:

zipalign -v 4 yourReleaseApp.apk zipalignedReleaseApp.apk