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 >
