To Answer @odiggity specifically, in build.gradle file of your phone app, you should mention the exact name of the wear app folder. If you created the project in Android Studio, then your build.gradle should look like this: wearApp project(‘:wear’) This can happen because of the following reasons: Wear & Mobile app’s “permissions” are not same … Read more
Basically, there are 5 methods to protect your APK being cracking/ reversing/ repackaging: 1. Isolate Java Program The easiest way is to make users unable to access to the Java Class program. This is the most fundamental way, and it has a variety of specific ways to achieve this. For example, developers can place the … Read more
On the Mac, I found the keystore file path, password, key alias and key password in an earlier log report before I updated Android Studio. I launched the Console utility and scrolled down to ~/Library/Logs -> AndroidStudioBeta ->idea.log.1 (or any old log number) Then I searched for “android.injected.signing.store” and found this from an earlier date: … Read more
This isn’t an answer per se, but I can’t find any commenting tool here. Sorry. I’m having this issue as well. I would like to be able to detect new application installs. I know it is possible – for example, the app Apps to SD posts a notification when you install a new app that … Read more
So, Why do I see that much increase in my app size, Can it be minimized? Almost solely because of your res folder images! You should have around 4 copies of each image in the drawable-mdpi, -hdpi, xhdpi folders. The only difference is that theu are all different sizes. Is it safer to delete them, … Read more
It is a two step process. The unaligned apk is just an intermediate product. the unaligned apk is generated the unaligned gets aligned and produces the aligned apk
As of today there is a new official publishing API That allows you to upload to any channel (ie. alpha, beta…) or update title and description and more. From the docs: Uploading new versions of an app Releasing apps, by assigning APKs to various Tracks (alpha, beta, staged rollout, or production) Creating and modifying Google … Read more
I decided to re-post my answer from elsewhere here, so that all of this is on one page for easy access. If this is against SO policies, please tell me and delete this post from here. Here is my idea on how to create separate APK files for each supported processor architecture: Build one “fat” … Read more
In order to find out what’s wrong you can use gradle’s signingReport command. On mac: ./gradlew signingReport On Windows: gradlew signingReport
As CommonsWare wrote in his comment, you should call appendVersionNameVersionCode only for staging variants. You can easily do that, just slightly modify your appendVersionNameVersionCode method, for example: def appendVersionNameVersionCode(variant, defaultConfig) { //check if staging variant if(variant.name == android.buildTypes.staging.name){ if(variant.zipAlign) { def file = variant.outputFile def fileName = file.name.replace(“.apk”, “-” + defaultConfig.versionName + “-” + defaultConfig.versionCode … Read more