Android CI demo

Demo for an Android app CI/CD pipeline.

Toolchain

• Android Gradle Plugin 9.2.1 (built-in Kotlin support)
• Gradle 9.6.1
• compileSdk 37, targetSdk / minSdk 36 (Android 16)
• Build image: mobiledevops/android-sdk-image (JDK 21, platform android-36, build-tools 36.1.0)

CI

• GitLab CI/CD: .gitlab-ci.yml (Pipelines: https://gitlab.com/mobiledevops/android-ci-demo/pipelines)
  • Runs ./gradlew clean assembleRelease --stacktrace on mobiledevops/android-sdk-image:latest

Local verification with Docker

Build the app inside the CI base image:

docker build --pull -t android-ci-demo .

The image is pinned to linux/amd64: Google does not ship a linux-arm64 aapt2, so Android resource builds require amd64. On Apple Silicon the build runs under emulation.

Planned Features

• Unit / ui testing
• Different app configuration (bundle id)
• Signing the app with different key stores
• Crash reporting integration
• Analytics integration
• Upload to Google Play Store