Android AppCenter Gradle Plugin

This project is a Fork of the original AppCenter Gradle Plugin by Olivier Gauthier. The aim of this Fork is to offer a stable and frequently updated/maintained alternative plugin for uploading builds to AppCenter. At this point in time the plugin itself has not changed, except that is now also works with the Android Gradle Plugin version 4.1. In the future some more changes can be expected.

This plugin allows you to upload android application to AppCenter. You can declare several applications, the plugin will take care of build variant to upload the apk on the right AppCenter application

Find last version on Gradle Repository

Quick Start

Add the plugin using one of the following methods:

Plugin block:

// In your app's build.gradle file (usually app/build.gradle)
plugins {
    id "nl.neotech.plugin.appcenter" version "1.0.0-beta.3"
}

classpath + apply:

root build.gradle file:

buildscript {
   dependencies {
      classpath 'nl.neotech.plugin:android-appcenter-plugin:1.0.0-beta.3'
   }
}

app build.gradle file:

apply plugin: 'nl.neotech.plugin.appcenter'

Then use the appcenter block to configure the plugin as shown in this example:

apply plugin: "nl.neotech.plugin.appcenter"

android {
    // ...
    flavorDimensions "environment"
    productFlavors {
        alpha {
            dimension "environment"
            applicationIdSuffix ".alpha"
            versionNameSuffix "-alpha"
        }
        beta {
            dimension "environment"
            applicationIdSuffix ".beta"
            versionNameSuffix "-beta"
        }
        prod {
            dimension "environment"
        }
    }
    
    buildTypes {
        release {
            signingConfig android.signingConfigs.release
        }
    }
}

appcenter {
    apiToken = "XXXXXXXX"                       // Api Token from AppCenter user profile
    ownerName = "ACME"                          // Owner Name from AppCenter Application (see following note)
    distributionGroups = ["Beta"]               // Name of the AppCenter Distribution Group
    releaseNotes = file("../changelog.md")      // Can be a file or text
    notifyTesters = true                        // Send mail to testers
    apps {                                      // Here we manage 3 AppCenter applications : alpha, beta and prod
        alpha {                                 // When dimension is provided, this name match the productFlavor name
            dimension = "environment"           // This dimension match the flavor dimension
            appName = "GradleSample-Alpha"      // The AppCenter application name
        }
        beta {
            dimension = "environment"
            appName = "GradleSample-Beta"
        }
        prodRelease {                           // When no dimension is provided, this name match the full variant name
            appName = "GradleSample"            // Application Name from AppCenter (see following note)
        }
    }
}

Note : ownerName and appName can be found from AppCenter application url (https://appcenter.ms/users/{ownerName}/apps/{appName})

The plugin will generate severals tasks for each variant :

• appCenterUploadApkAlphaRelease
• appCenterUploadMappingAlphaRelease # Only when uploadMappingFiles is set to true
• appCenterUploadSymbolsAlphaRelease # Only when symbols are provided in configuration
• appCenterUploadAlphaRelease

To upload an apk, just run tasks assemble and appCenterUpload

./gradlew assembleAlphaRelease appCenterUploadAlphaRelease

Override properties

Each apps nodes inherit properties from appcenter global properties. You can override those properties by defining properties on the target application node like in the following sample with alpha node

appcenter {
    apiToken = "XXXXXXXX"
    ownerName = "ACME"
    distributionGroups = ["Beta"]
    releaseNotes = file("../changelog.md")
    notifyTesters = false
    symbols = ["symbols.zip"]
    apps {      
        alpha {
            dimension = "environment"
            apiToken = "YYYYYYYY"
            ownerName = "AnotherOwner"
            distributionGroups = ["Alpha"]
            releaseNotes = "No Changes"
            appName = "GradleSample-Alpha"
            notifyTesters = true
            uploadMappingFiles = true
            symbols = ["symbols.zip"]
        }
        prodRelease {           
            appName = "GradleSample"
        }
    }
}

Gradle Android Plugin Compatibility Matrix

Version	Android Gradle plugin version	Gradle version
1.0.0	4.1+	6.5+

Use Environment Variables (for CI use)

• APPCENTER_API_TOKEN : AppCenter API token
• APPCENTER_OWNER_NAME : Owner name
• APPCENTER_DISTRIBUTION_GROUPS : Comma separated list of distribution groups
• APPCENTER_RELEASE_NOTES : Release notes in Markdown format
• APPCENTER_NOTIFY_TESTERS : Notify testers
• APPCENTER_SYMBOLS : Comma separated list of symbols file to upload

Timeouts

By default, plugin set timeouts to 60 seconds. You can override them with the following properties :

• http.timeout.connect
• http.timeout.read
• http.timeout.write

You can define those properties in your local gradle.properties or global ~/.gradle/gradle.properties

Common mistakes

You have integrated the plugin and you didn't found generated tasks ?

• When using dimension parameter, it must match an android Flavor's dimension. The generated tasks will be appCenterUpload{FLAVOR}Debug and appCenterUpload{FLAVOR}Release
• appcenter { } block must be declared outside the android { } one.
• You can't upload apk and have an http error ? Check the appName it must match application url (https://appcenter.ms/users/{ownerName}/apps/{appName})