Android Studio : install Release App by command line

Question

I want to export apk file "release apk" from command line when I run this command : gradlew installRelease

and I found this

Android Studio Task 'install Release' not found in root project ''. Some candidates are: 'uninstall Release'.

How can I solve it?

Answer 1

My experience has been that the installRelease task does not become available until you define the signingConfigs in the buildTypes.release block of your build file, as shown in step 3 of Signing in Release Mode. Without signingConfigs, you will get other release tasks, such as assembleRelease, but not installRelease.

Answer 2

So there is no such task. You can see all available tasks calling gradlew tasks. To assemble release version of apk call gradlew assembleRelease and then using adb install it.