AFAIK, I don't think there's any technical roadblocks. Just need a proposal
for how it should look, and then a patch & docs to add it!

For Android's hot-off-the-press gradle support, you can set an environment
variable that points to a .properties file for signing builds. This shows
one way to go about it, but I'm not in love with the .properties idea.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Victor Sosa <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi community.
>
> Been looking at this topic and wondering why the build command does not
> create signed archives.  Digging a little bit found a lot of differences in
> the platforms to create these archives.
>
> For instance, in Android you need to
> 1. Export your APK in release mode (--release flag)
> 2. Sign your APK (you already need a RSA key)
>
> In iOS, you need to:
> 1. Export your APP using --device flag (--release seems to export for
> emulator only)
> 2. Either use XCode (UI-based) and sign the archive or use xcrun (headless
> process)
>
> Besides these differences, what is preventing Cordova from providing a
> generic one-way to build these signed, ready-to-publish archives?
>
> Perhaps I'm missing something here...?  I really appreciate your insights
> on this topic
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Victor Adrian Sosa Herrera
> IBM Software Engineer
> Guadalajara, Jalisco
>

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