Build Android Studio app via command line

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

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You re likely here because you want to install it too  Build gradlew   On Windows gradlew bat  Then Install adb install -r exampleApp apk   The -r makes it replace the existing copy  add an -s if installing on an emulator  Bonus I set up an alias in my    bash profile  to make it a 2char command  alias bi  quot gradlew  amp  amp  adb install -r exampleApp apk quot    Short for Build and Install

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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

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Cheatsheet for running Gradle from the command line for Android Studio projects on Linux   cd  lt project-root gt    gradlew   gradlew tasks   gradlew --help   Should get you started

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1  Install Gradle and the Android SDK Either  Install these however you see fit Run   gradlew  or gradlew bat if on Windows  chmod  x   gradlew may be necessary    From this point onwards  gradle refers to running Gradle whichever way you ve chosen  Substitute accordingly  2  Setup the Android SDK  If you ve manually installed the SDK  export ANDROID HOME  lt install location gt  You may want to put that in your    profile if it s not done automatically   Accept the licenses  yes   sdkmanager --licenses  sdkmanager can be found in  ANDROID HOME tools bin sdkmanager may have to be run as root   Try running gradle  If there are complaints about licenses or SDKs not being found  fix the directory permissions  chown -R user group  ANDROID HOME If you re reckless and or the only user  chmod 777 -R  ANDROID HOME      3  Building  gradle tasks lists all tasks that can be run  app  appname  is the prefix of all tasks  which you ll see in the Gradle logs when you re building  This can be excluded when running a task    Some essential tasks  gradle assemble  build all variants of your app  Resulting  apks are in app  appname  build outputs apk  debug release    gradle assembleDebug or assembleRelease  build just the debug or release versions gradle installDebug or installRelease build and install to an attached device  Have adb installed Attach a device with USB debugging and USB file transfer enabled Run adb devices  check that your device is listed and device is beside it    Automatically build and install upon changes This avoids having to continuously run the same commands gradle -t --continue installDebug   -t  aka --continuous  automatically re-runs the task after a file is changed --continue  Continue after errors  Prevents stopping when errors occur  Run gradle -h for more help

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Only for MAC Users  Extending Vji s answer   Step by step procedure     Open Terminal  Change your directory to your Project cd PathOfYourProject  Copy and paste this command and hit enter   chmod  x gradlew  As Vji suggested     gradlew task-name   DON T FORGOT TO ADD   DOT  BEFORE  gradlew

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Android Studio automatically creates a Gradle wrapper in the root of your project  which is how it invokes Gradle  The wrapper is basically a script that calls through to the actual Gradle binary and allows you to keep Gradle up to date  which makes using version control easier  To run a Gradle command  you can simply use the gradlew script found in the root of your project  or gradlew bat on Windows  followed by the name of the task you want to run  For instance  to build a debug version of your Android application  you can run   gradlew assembleDebug from the root of your repository  In a default project setup  the resulting apk can then be found in app build outputs apk app-debug apk  On a  nix machine  you can also just run find   -name    apk  to find it  if it s not there

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Adding value to all these answers   many have asked the command for running App in AVD after build sucessful   adb install -r  path-to-your-bild-folder   yourAppName  apk

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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

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I faced the same problem and seems that there have been many changes by google  I can tell you the steps for installing purely via command line from scratch  I tested it on Ubuntu on 22 Feb 2021  create sdk folder export ANDROID SDK ROOT  usr lib android-sdk sudo mkdir -p  ANDROID SDK ROOT  install openjdk sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk  download android sdk Go to https   developer android com studio index html Then down to Command line tools only Click on Linux link  accept the agreement and instead of downloading right click and copy link address cd  ANDROID SDK ROOT sudo wget https   dl google com android repository commandlinetools-linux-6858069 latest zip sudo unzip commandlinetools-linux-6858069 latest zip  move folders Rename the unpacked directory from cmdline-tools to tools  and place it under  ANDROID SDK ROOT cmdline-tools  so now it should look like   ANDROID SDK ROOT cmdline-tools tools  And inside it  you should have  NOTICE txt  bin  lib  source properties  set path PATH  PATH  ANDROID SDK ROOT cmdline-tools latest bin  ANDROID SDK ROOT cmdline-tools tools bin  This had no effect for me  hence the next step browse to sdkmanager cd  ANDROID SDK ROOT cmdline-tools tools bin  accept licenses yes   sudo sdkmanager --licenses  create build Finally  run this inside your project sudo   gradlew assembleDebug  This creates an APK named -debug apk at   build outputs apk debug The file is already signed with the debug key and aligned with zipalign  so you can immediately install it on a device  REFERENCES https   gist github com guipmourao 3e7edc951b043f6de30ca15a5cc2be40 Android Command line tools sdkmanager always shows  Warning  Could not create settings  quot Failed to install the following Android SDK packages as some licences have not been accepted quot  error https   developer android com studio build building-cmdline sign cmdline

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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

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note  you can also do this within Android Studio by clicking the gradle window  and then the  elephant  button  This will open a new window called  run anything   can also be found by searching for that name in  search everywhere   where you can manually type any gradle command you want in  Not  quite  command line  but often provides more of what I need than windows command line   This allows you to give optional params to gradle tasks  etc

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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

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For Mac use this command      gradlew task-name

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