Android Studio no longer automatically signs the apk when pressing the “Run” button in debug mode. That makes it challenging to develop and test on a physical devise, especially when the signature of the apk is required for some functions
Gradle fails after upgrading Android Studio to 3.2.1 with “Could not find aapt2-proto.jar”
Almost every other time I go through an Android Studio upgrade, my projects no longer compile and I spend an hour or so trying to figure out what was wrong or what I need to change. Due to this reason
Gradle – Automatically rename the .apk file and copy the ProGuard mapping.txt file
ProGuard writes the mapping file under the build directory of the project. Under normal circumstances all files and directories under the build dirs are excluded from version control. That is a bit of an issue if you want to be able to save that file with every release build. I always forget to this manually. So, let’s do that at build time with Gradle and while we are at it, we might as well rename our apk file, so we don’t have to do that manually either.
The Android SDK Manager fails to fetch the platform and tools list from Google
If you get the following error message when launching the Android SDK Manager: Failed to fetch URL https://dl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-2.xml, reason: File not found most likely the owner/permissions are not set correctly for the ~/.android directory. This error message is very confusing
Android Studio- What files and directories to exclude when importing into Subversion (or Git)
Update Oct. 17, 2019: ——————— This is the official .gitignore file maintained by JetBrains: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/Global/JetBrains.gitignore ——————— List of directories and files to be excluded when importing into a version control (relative to the root of the project): .gradle (directory) build