🚀 Integrate-Bitbucket-Pipeline-Android

Bitbucket pipeline is an Integrated service built on Bitbucket Cloud where we can automatically test, build, and deploy the code based on the configuration file.

✍ Prerequisites

• You need to create a Bitbucket cloud account
• You should have one repository in that account.

Step 1: Enable Pipeline

The first step is to enable Pipeline in your Bitbucket repository settings.

• Go To Bitbucket Project
• Repository Setting
• Pipeline Section — > Settings
• Enable Pipeline ✅

Step 2: Create Pipeline

Step 2 is to create a pipeline to generate a YAML file and added to your Android Project.

• Go to your repository and select Pipelines.
• Click Create your first pipeline and Select the template that is Recommended or you can choose another as well.
• After selecting the template you will see the Editor of the YAML file with the name bitbucket-pipeline.yml
• Commit and run

Step 3: Basic Configuration

After making a file, let’s add some basic configuration to build an Android application. For instance, when we upload code to a particular branch, we want it to create a debug build.

Now let’s jump into the file to see how the file looks in practice:

image: androidsdk/android-30
pipelines:
  branches:
      staging:               # pipeline definition for all branches
        - step:              # step to build Android debug application
            name: Android Staging Build Generating..
            size: 2x        # Double resources available for this step.
            caches:        # caching speed up subsequent execution https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/cache-dependencies/
              - gradle
            script:
              - chmod +x gradlew
              - ./gradlew assembleDebug
            artifacts:
              - app/build/outputs/**        # artifacts are files that are produced by a step https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/use-artifacts-in-steps/

The configuration has a pipeline definition for all branches, with one step: running the command ‘./gradlew assembleDebug’. Once you push code to the staging branch, you can check the Pipeline status, view detailed logs, and access other useful data.

Here we also added a cache to make Android builds faster It enables caches on external libraries and directories such as Gradle libraries, to enable the cache just added this command.

caches:    # caching speed up subsequent execution https://support.atlassian.com/bitbucket-cloud/docs/cache-dependencies/
- gradle

Step4: Build and Test

The ultimate step is to build and test the pipeline. Once it’s finished, you can grab the built .apk file in the artifacts directory.

• Go to artifacts
• app/builds/outputs/debug.apk
• Download the file

If you want a bundle release build then just add this command in the bitbucket-pipeline.yml file.

      releaseStore:
        - step:
            name: Android Prod Build App Bundle Generating..
            size: 2x
            caches:
              - gradle
            script:
              - chmod +x gradlew
              - ./gradlew bundleRelease
            artifacts:
              - app/build/outputs/**

If you want to explore more about Bitbucket Pipeline, then check out these sources: ➡️ Link

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