Why read? If you are a Android developer (or wannable one🙌 ) and want to publish your own app on GooglePlay , you will need to sign your APK digitally with a certificate. If you are rather an experienced android developer, you might be interested in learning best and secure way to configure build.gradle for signing multiple flavors seamlessly. Besides above two, this article is for anyone who is curious about Android Apps For more detailed information on why you need to sign your APK read here . While writing this post, I am assuming that you know the basics about android apps and android development tools: Android Studio, Android SDK, JDK etc. If you are not familiar with these, please android checkout android developer training page . Generating Private Key and Key store If you don’t already have a Keystore file with you, following steps explain how you can create one using Android Studio: Click Build-> Create Signed APK-> to open ...
With each new version of Android, a corresponding version of Android SDK is also realised for App developers. New version of Android comes up with some new features, new hardware /software support and some new APIs are also written by Google developers. Therefore, new SDK release is named after the API level of the Android Framework it is written for. Version Code name Launch Devices 8.0 Oreo Pixel 7.1 Nougat Pixel , Pixel XL 7.0 Nexus 5X , Nexus 6P 6.0 Marshmallow 5.1 Lollipop Android One 5.0 Nexus 6 , Nexus 9 4.4 KitKat Nexus 5 4.3 Jelly Bean Nexus 7 2013 4.2 Nexus 4 , Nexus 10 4.1 Nexus 7 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Galaxy Nexus 2.3 Gingerbread Nexus S Each new version of Android SDK essentially aimed to achieve some or all of the following: ...