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Generating signed APK for Android

Generating signed APK for Android - React Native Tutorial

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Generating signed APK for Android

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- [Instructor] To build and release for Android, we need to generate a signing key, and we can use key tool to do that. The React Native site has a guide article about that. Before we go through this article, let me explain some of the terms you're going to see here. So an APK is basically the Android binary format. This is comparable to IOS's IPA or Windows' exe files. We're going to use the key tool to generate a key store file. This key store file is like your certificate. This file is really important. It identifies that you or anyone you share this file with is authorized to publish a new version of your app. And if you lose your file, you will not be able to publish any new versions of your app. So make sure that you keep this file secure and backed up. We're going to have to work with some Gradle variables here, and Gradle is basically the build tool that Android uses. So you'll have to edit some files to basically add…

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