How to setup Pipelines for an Android app

[Deleted user]

Is it possible to setup Pipelines to build an Android app? At the moment, I'm getting the following:

location not found. Define location with sdk.dir in the local.properties file or with an ANDROID_HOME environment variable.

I'm using the default config file at the moment as I can't find anything regarding Android builds.

# This is a sample build configuration for Gradle.
# Check our guides at https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/VYk8Lw for more examples.
# Only use spaces to indent your .yml configuration.
# -----
# You can specify a custom docker image from Docker Hub as your build environment.
image: java:8

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script: # Modify the commands below to build your repository.
          - android update sdk --filter "build-tools-23.0.3" --no-ui -a   
          - ./gradlew build

Thanks.

[Omkar · Accepted solution]

Download and run on latest sdk with sdkmanager.

# This is a sample build configuration for Java (Gradle).
# Check our guides at https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/zd-5Mw for more examples.
# Only use spaces to indent your .yml configuration.
# -----
# You can specify a custom docker image from Docker Hub as your build environment.
image: java:8

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        caches:
          - gradle
          - android-sdk

        script:
          # Download and unzip android sdk
          - wget --quiet --output-document=android-sdk.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-3859397.zip
          - unzip -o -qq android-sdk.zip -d android-sdk

          # Define Android Home and add PATHs
          - export ANDROID_HOME="/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/android-sdk"
          - export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/tools/bin:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"

          # Download packages.
          - yes | sdkmanager "platform-tools"
          - yes | sdkmanager "platforms;android-27"
          - yes | sdkmanager "build-tools;27.0.3"
          - yes | sdkmanager "extras;android;m2repository"
          - yes | sdkmanager "extras;google;m2repository"
          - yes | sdkmanager "extras;google;instantapps"
          - yes | sdkmanager --licenses

          # Build apk
          - chmod a+x ./gradlew
          - ./gradlew assembleDebug

definitions:
    caches:
      android-sdk: android-sdk

[xni06]

Works a treat the first time but subsequent builds results in the following failure:

Cache "gradle": Downloading
Cache "gradle": Extracting
Cache "gradle": Extracted
Cache "android-sdk": Downloading
Cache "android-sdk": Extracting
Cache "android-sdk": Extracted
+ wget --quiet --output-document=android-sdk.zip https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-linux-3859397.zip

+ unzip -qq android-sdk.zip -d android-sdk
replace android-sdk/tools/bin/lint? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: NULL
(EOF or read error, treating as "[N]one" ...)

[Simon Barber]

Try add the option -o to the unzip command below:

- unzip -o -qq android-sdk.zip -d android-sdk

See the basic unzip command options below:

-f freshen existing files, create none
-n never overwrite existing files
-q quiet mode (-qq => quieter)
-o overwrite files WITHOUT prompting

The -qq is for quieter mode and the -o will overwrite files without prompting.

Hope this helps.

[Deleted user]

Doh! Sorry and thanks @Simon Barber

[Omkar]

Thanks @Simon Barber updated answer.

[Nicholas Walsh]

The android-sdk was not being added to the cache. 

I had to update definition to: 

definitions:
    caches:
      android-sdk: /opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/android-sdk

* Cache took time to update, If i wait it might have started working with just android-sdk

[SmsParser]

copy yml, change to api 28, error

The SDK directory '/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/D:\Android\sdk' does not exist.

[diniska]

I've found an article about Android + Pipelines integration: https://medium.com/rocknnull/setup-android-continuous-integration-ci-for-bitbucket-in-1-minute-9b72a4f1d745.

The `bitbucket-pipelines.yml` file looks pretty simple as a result of using Docker image `mingc/android-build-box`.

image: mingc/android-build-box:latest

pipelines:
    default:
        - step:
            caches:
                - gradle
            script:
                - chmod +x gradlew
                - ./gradlew assembleDebug

[Nizamudeen Sherif]

But there is no APK present in ./gradlew or any of the folders in repo or artifacts list. Actually i want the downloadable APK in Artifacts list.

[Melwin M]

Hi, there is no android sdk preinstalled on Docker image java:8. So you can download and install the sdk manually. The following steps works with my pipeline.

But i think a better and much faster way is to use an prepared docker image like this: https://hub.docker.com/r/guptasanchit90/android-gradle/

Hope this helps:

image: java:8
pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          # Download and unzip android sdk
          - wget https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
          - tar zxvf android-sdk*.tgz
          # Define android Home and add PATHs (After that you can run "android")
          - export ANDROID_HOME="/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/android-sdk-linux"
          - export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"
          # Accept all licences http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38096225/automatically-accept-all-sdk-licences
          - mkdir -p "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses"
          - echo -e "\n8933bad161af4178b1185d1a37fbf41ea5269c55" > "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses/android-sdk-license"
          - echo -e "\n84831b9409646a918e30573bab4c9c91346d8abd" > "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses/android-sdk-preview-license"
          # Update android sdk
          - ( sleep 5 && while [ 1 ]; do sleep 1; echo y; done ) | android update sdk --no-ui --filter "extra-android-m2repository" -a
          # Build apk
          - chmod a+x gradlew
          - ./gradlew assembleDebug

[vinayyam]

Hi, I did the above thing but I am facing error PFA

[cripstian]

Hope you solved it by now, but for anyone trying to use what Melwin wrote:

Please try replacing the HTML escaping characters like this from:

* >   =>  turns into `>`  (greater than)

* &  => turns into  '&'  (ampersant)

So in the end it looks like:

image: java:8
pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          # Download and unzip android sdk
          - wget https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
          - tar zxvf android-sdk*.tgz
          # Define android Home and add PATHs (After that you can run "android")
          - export ANDROID_HOME="/opt/atlassian/pipelines/agent/build/android-sdk-linux"
          - export PATH="$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH"
          # Accept all licences http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38096225/automatically-accept-all-sdk-licences
          - mkdir -p "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses"
          - echo -e "\n8933bad161af4178b1185d1a37fbf41ea5269c55" > "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses/android-sdk-license"
          - echo -e "\n84831b9409646a918e30573bab4c9c91346d8abd" > "$ANDROID_HOME/licenses/android-sdk-preview-license"
          # Update android sdk
          - ( sleep 5 && while [ 1 ]; do sleep 1; echo y; done ) | android update sdk --no-ui --filter "extra-android-m2repository" -a
          # Build apk
          - chmod a+x gradlew
          - ./gradlew assembleDebug

[asbadve]

Its fail due to not accepting the licenses. Can you please give me cmd to do that

[cripstian]

Try adding the content of the licences from your local machine.

Find the files in your `$ANDROID_HOME` to extract the content and put them in the appropriate  place inside your `bitybucket-pipelines.yml`.

`cat $ANDROID_HOME/licences/android-sdk-licence`

and

`cat $ANDROID_HOME/licences/android-sdk-preview-licence`

You should first find out where $ANDROID_HOME points.

After this you can replace them in your `bitbucket-pipelines.yml` file.

It may be that the licences from the example above are expired or something.

[Moaz Rashad El Sayed Mohamed]

you can add 

before_script:
- touch local.properties

it will solve this issue.

[Malcolm Cooke]

Try using this docker image, which is a a standard ubuntu build pre-populated with android development environment

runmymind/docker-android-sdk:ubuntu-standalone

[Tory Adams]

dupliacte my fault.