Build Android app on Bitbucket pipelines add APK to downloads

*Tags: #bitbucket #ci *

How to access setup Bitbucket pipelines to build an Android app and add the APK to downloads.

In order to upload file from pipelines we need to follow the instruction.

Create app password with write access rights for repositories, then create environment variable in the account or the repository and put the BB_AUTH_STRING = <username>:<password>.

The bitbucket-pipelines.yml

image: mingc/android-build-box:latest

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        caches:
          - gradle
        script:
          - chmod +x gradlew
          - ./gradlew assembleDebug
          - curl -X POST --user "${BB_AUTH_STRING}" "https://api.bitbucket.org/2.0/repositories/${BITBUCKET_REPO_OWNER}/${BITBUCKET_REPO_SLUG}/downloads" --form files=@"app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk"
        artifacts:
          - app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk