Mobile DevOps

Compiling the application

Now that we have our Android Keystore ready and prepped for use, we can look at the Visual Studio project. In order to automate this in the build system, we need to configure the project to use our Keystore credentials:

1. In Visual Studio, edit the Android application .csproj file and add another PropertyGroup element as shown in the following code:

<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)' == 'Release'"> <AndroidKeyStore>True</AndroidKeyStore> <AndroidSigningKeyStore>myandroid.keystore</AndroidSigningKeyStore> <AndroidSigningStorePass>yourpassword</AndroidSigningStorePass> <AndroidSigningKeyAlias>myaliasdroidpub</AndroidSigningKeyAlias> <AndroidSigningKeyPass>yourpassword</AndroidSigningKeyPass> </PropertyGroup> ...