Build Android Studio app via command line

Question

I want to build an Android Studio app (the Gradle build system), but I want to do this via the command line.

Answer 1

Cheatsheet for running Gradle from the command line for Android Studio projects on Linux:

cd <project-root>
./gradlew
./gradlew tasks
./gradlew --help

Should get you started..

Answer 2

there are two build types to build your application using the Gradle build settings: one for debugging your application — debug — and one for building your final package for release — release mode.

Building in Debug Mode

• First Navigate to Android studio project Root folder using CMD

• run this command gradlew.bat assembleDebug

• Output window look like this

Build signed apk in Release Mode

• Edit the build.gradle file to build your project in release mode:

  android {
  ...
  defaultConfig { ... }
  signingConfigs {
      release {
          storeFile file("myreleasekey.keystore")
          storePassword "password"
          keyAlias "MyReleaseKey"
          keyPassword "password"
      }
  }
  buildTypes {
      release {
          ...
          signingConfig signingConfigs.release
      }
  }}
  

• run this command gradlew.bat assembleRelease

Done.Good Luck!

Answer 3

Try this (OS X only):

brew install homebrew/versions/gradle110
gradle build

You can use gradle tasks to see all tasks available for the current project. No Android Studio is needed here.

Answer 4

Official Documentation is here:

To build a debug APK, open a command line and navigate to the root of your project directory. To initiate a debug build, invoke the assembleDebug task:

gradlew assembleDebug

This creates an APK named module_name-debug.apk in project_name/module_name/build/outputs/apk/.

Answer 5

enter code hereCreate script file with below gradle and adb command, Execute script file

./gradlew clean

./gradlew assembleDebug ./gradlew installDebug

adb shell am start -n applicationID/full path of launcher activity

Answer 6

Only for MAC Users

Extending Vji's answer.

Step by step procedure:

1. Open Terminal
2. Change your directory to your Project(cd PathOfYourProject)

3. Copy and paste this command and hit enter:

   chmod +x gradlew
   

4. As Vji suggested:

   ./gradlew task-name
   

   DON'T FORGOT TO ADD .(DOT) BEFORE /gradlew