Support release builds from CLI

[mlynch]

We will need to do CI/Cloud builds for apps in Ionic, should we support running xcodebuild/gradle easily from the CLI?

npx cap build

[jcesarmobile]

Is the CI something we control? we can configure the CI to build the native project

[mlynch]

Yea, but just CI's in general, we could make it easier to build the app from the command line

[janpio]

fastlane has very good build support for both Android and iOS - maybe this could be an alternative? (With build come profiles, certificates, output paths...)

[zarko-tg]

Major showstopper for us as we've almost never had to open/use any IDE, having a well functioning build/release setup/process via command line.

[ptitjes]

@zarko-tg You can do (cd android/ && ./gradlew assembleRelease) for Android.
See for instance:

• https://github.com/cabasvert/cabasvert/blob/master/packages/client/scripts/tools.js#L83
• https://github.com/cabasvert/cabasvert/blob/master/packages/client/scripts/tools.js#L127

You can do something like xcodebuild -scheme App build for iOS.
But I can't tell exactly as I didn't pay Apple's dime yet.

[wilsolutions]

Hi, I've tried the steps above for Android, it did generate the expected .apk file however if fails when I try to install in the device.
This is the error message that I got from logcat:
com.google.android.packageinstaller/com.android.packageinstaller.InstallFailed (has extras)

• iOS:
  xcodebuild -workspace App.xcworkspace -scheme App clean archive -configuration debug -sdk iphoneos -archivePath App.xcarchive

It fails with:
AppDelegate.swift:2:8: error: no such module 'Capacitor'

Any thoughts about it?
tkx

[jcesarmobile]

Did you run it from ios/App/ folder?

I just copy/pasted your command in one random Capacitor project and worked fine

You can also try to run pod install from ios/App/ first, but shouldn't be necessary as npx cap update ios already run it

[wilsolutions]

Hola @jcesarmobile, thank you for the feedback.
Yes, I did run from the ios/App folder.

From the ios/App:

1. ✗ pod install
   Ignoring nokogiri-1.8.4 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine nokogiri --version 1.8.4
   Ignoring unf_ext-0.0.7.5 because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine unf_ext --version 0.0.7.5
   Analyzing dependencies
   Fetching podspec for Capacitor from ../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios
   Fetching podspec for CapacitorCordova from ../../node_modules/@capacitor/ios
   Fetching podspec for CordovaPlugins from ../capacitor-cordova-ios-plugins
   Downloading dependencies
   Using Capacitor (1.0.0-beta.7)
   Using CapacitorCordova (1.0.0-beta.7)
   Using CordovaPlugins (1.0.0-beta.11)
   Using GCDWebServer (3.4.2)
   Generating Pods project
   Integrating client project
   Sending stats
   Pod installation complete! There are 3 dependencies from the Podfile and 4 total pods installed.

2. ✗ xcodebuild -workspace App.xcworkspace -scheme App clean archive -configuration debug -sdk iphoneos -archivePath App.xcarchive

AppDelegate.swift:2:8: error: no such module 'Capacitor'
import Capacitor
^
** ARCHIVE FAILED **
The following build commands failed:
CompileSwift normal armv7 /Users/wils/_work/projects/prototype01/ios/App/App/AppDelegate.swift
CompileSwiftSources normal arm64 com.apple.xcode.tools.swift.compiler
CompileSwift normal arm64 /Users/wils/_work/projects/prototype01/ios/App/App/AppDelegate.swift
(3 failures)

tkx

[wilsolutions]

It works!

I have just created a new project and it works!

So, looks likes some discrepancy in my previous project, after reading jcesarmobile message I decided to create a new project and voilà!

tkx

[Rodrigo54]

consider using @bazelbuild to compile for ios, android and electron
it would be better to centralize everything in a single tool instead of worrying about Gradle and CocoaPods

[Coly010]

+1 Bump