Android Studio: How can I get the aligned signed release APK?

Question

I'm using Android Studio, and for other projects, when I try to Generate a signed APK I get the app-release.apk file with any further trouble.

But in this particular project, I can only get an app-release-unaligned.apk file.

The main difference with my other projects is the use of the transloadit jar and org.apache.httpcomponents library for which I had to write down the packagingOptions field in my graddle file.

This is my build.grade file

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

android {
    signingConfigs {
    }
    compileSdkVersion 22
    buildToolsVersion "22.0.1"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.bambinotes.bambinotessnap"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 22
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
            zipAlignEnabled true
        }
    }
    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENCE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/DEPENDENCIES'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE'
        exclude 'META-INF/LICENSE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/license.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE'
        exclude 'META-INF/NOTICE.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/notice.txt'
        exclude 'META-INF/ASL2.0'
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')
    compile('org.apache.httpcomponents:httpmime:4.3.6') {
        exclude module: 'httpclient'
    }
    compile files('libs/transloadit-1.0.2.jar')
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.anupcowkur:reservoir:2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:22.2.0'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:7.5.0'
    compile 'com.mcxiaoke.volley:library:1.0.16'
    compile 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient-android:4.3.5'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:22.2.0'
}

** UPDATE**

I've just found out what was the error that I was having, Android Studio was opening the finder in another folder, the one that generates the app-debug and app-release-unaligned files (which we can consider as intermediate files), the app-release.apk file was two folders up in the directory structure.

Even though I feel embarrassed for knowing the reason of my trouble, I'll leave this question open to see if this happens to anyone else in the future.

Answer 1

The app-release.apk file is in the application folder.

Sometimes Android studio shows another directory where the unaligned file is, so you just have to look for the newly created file.