🏎💨 CD with AppCenter

We're using custom scripts to make AppCenter support our app building process.

There's one for Android (android/app/appcenter-post-clone.sh) and one for iOS (ios/appcenter-post-clone.sh). Those download latest stable Flutter and build prod flavored app with signing.

To build the dev flavored app, set a RELEASE_TARGET environment variable to development in branch build configuration.

Android setup

Firstly, create a keystore for signing.

You need to have Java installed and available in the shell:

• on mac, using brew: brew install openjdk,
• on windows, just download a .msi file from here,
• on linux or wsl, there's probably openjdk available in your package manager.

In the root project folder run: make create-android-signing. You will be asked some questions, but the passwords are the most important. Remember those and put in android/app/build.gradle in section signingConfigs:

signingConfigs {
    release {
        storeFile rootProject.file("upload-keystore.jks") # leave as-is
        storePassword "password" # put your store password here
        keyAlias "upload" # leave as-is
        keyPassword "password" # put your key password here
    }
}

To check if signing works, you can run make build-prod-apk. If the build process goes fine and the app is working it's done 🍾

AppCenter Android setup

To use signing in Android builds, set the AppCenter build like so:

To distribute the app automatically to the store, follow this guide.

iOS setup

iOS builds will require .mobileprovision and .p12 files. Here's how to obtain them. Keep them somewhere safe and upload copies to AppCenter build config:

AppCenter iOS setup

To use signing in iOS builds, set the AppCenter build like so: