Sign Android Release Action

This action will help you sign an Android .apk or .aab (Android App Bundle) file for release.

Inputs

releaseDirectory

Required: The relative directory path in your project where your Android release file will be located

signingKeyBase64

Required: The base64 encoded signing key used to sign your app

This action will directly decode this input to a file to sign your release with. You can prepare your key by running this command on *nix systems.

openssl base64 < some_signing_key.jks | tr -d '\n' | tee some_signing_key.jks.base64.txt

Then copy the contents of the .txt file to your GH secrets

alias

Required: The alias of your signing key

keyStorePassword

Required: The password to your signing keystore

keyPassword

Optional: The private key password for your signing keystore

ENV: BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION

Optional: You can manually specify a version of build-tools to use. We use 29.0.3 by default.

Outputs

signedReleaseFile

The path to the signed release file from this action

ENV: SIGNED_RELEASE_FILE

This also set's an environment variable that points to the signed release file

Example usage

steps:
  # ...

  - uses: r0adkll/[email protected]
    name: Sign app APK
    # ID used to access action output
    id: sign_app
    with:
      releaseDirectory: app/build/outputs/apk/release
      signingKeyBase64: ${{ secrets.SIGNING_KEY }}
      alias: ${{ secrets.ALIAS }}
      keyStorePassword: ${{ secrets.KEY_STORE_PASSWORD }}
      keyPassword: ${{ secrets.KEY_PASSWORD }}
    env:
      // override default build-tools version (29.0.3) -- optional
      BUILD_TOOLS_VERSION: "30.0.2"
      
  # Example use of `signedReleaseFile` output -- not needed
  - uses: actions/[email protected]
    with:
      name: Signed app bundle
      path: ${{steps.sign_app.outputs.signedReleaseFile}}