Scripting the Repacking of Android Apps for a Release Pipeline

Following yesterday’s post on repacking an Android APK, I was pointed to an awesome post by Daniel Causer entitled Build Once Release Everywhere – APK. Daniel’s post goes into a lot of detail on how to setup your build and release process. Specifically the scripts that he’s created for automating the repacking process I described in my post (you can grab them from his github repo.

I think the logical next step is for the creation of a Azure DevOps extension that either allows you to invoke apktool from a task in the build or release pipeline; or an extension that does the whole extract; replace/rename/modify file and then repack and sign. I suspect the former might be the best way as it would give developers the most flexibility. However, it would require more steps to be configured in the release pipeline.

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