No, I never tried that command earlier when I was developing the app. I used to run the app from the android studio run button. As part of app release preparations, i have added KeyStore properties and signingConfigs in app/build.gradle file, changed compileSDKVersion and targetSDK version to 29. Updated gradle build tools to 4.0.0.
Here is my app/build.gradle file
def localProperties = new Properties()
def localPropertiesFile = rootProject.file('local.properties')
if (localPropertiesFile.exists()) {
localPropertiesFile.withReader('UTF-8') { reader ->
localProperties.load(reader)
}
}
def flutterRoot = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.sdk')
if (flutterRoot == null) {
throw new GradleException("Flutter SDK not found. Define location with flutter.sdk in the local.properties file.")
}
def flutterVersionCode = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionCode')
if (flutterVersionCode == null) {
flutterVersionCode = '1'
}
def flutterVersionName = localProperties.getProperty('flutter.versionName')
if (flutterVersionName == null) {
flutterVersionName = '1.0'
}
apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply from: "$flutterRoot/packages/flutter_tools/gradle/flutter.gradle"
def keystoreProperties = new Properties()
def keystorePropertiesFile = rootProject.file('keystore.properties')
if (keystorePropertiesFile.exists()) {
keystoreProperties.load(new FileInputStream(keystorePropertiesFile))
}
android {
compileSdkVersion 29
sourceSets {
main.java.srcDirs += 'src/main/kotlin'
}
lintOptions {
disable 'InvalidPackage'
}
defaultConfig {
applicationId "com.xxxx.xxxx"
minSdkVersion 16
targetSdkVersion 29
versionCode flutterVersionCode.toInteger()
versionName flutterVersionName
multiDexEnabled true
}
signingConfigs {
release {
keyAlias keystoreProperties['keyAlias']
keyPassword keystoreProperties['keyPassword']
storeFile keystoreProperties['storeFile'] ? file(keystoreProperties['storeFile']) : null
storePassword keystoreProperties['storePassword']
}
}
buildTypes {
release {
// TODO: Add your own signing config for the release build.
// Signing with the debug keys for now, so `flutter run --release` works.
signingConfig signingConfigs.release
}
}
}
flutter {
source '../..'
}
dependencies {
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
}
and this my android/build.gradle file
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buildscript {
ext.kotlin_version = '1.3.72'
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
maven {
url 'https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2'
}
}
dependencies {
classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:4.0.0'
classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
}
}
allprojects {
repositories {
google()
jcenter()
}
}
rootProject.buildDir = '../build'
subprojects {
project.buildDir = "${rootProject.buildDir}/${project.name}"
}
subprojects {
project.evaluationDependsOn(':app')
}
task clean(type: Delete) {
delete rootProject.buildDir
}