Examples of how to streamline releases with your Gradle based Android project

build-gradle-git-hockeyapp.gradle

/**
 * This example demonstrates how to create a build task 
 * for publishing a beta to HockeyApp in addition to 
 * tagging and pushing a beta release to your remote git
 * repo using the gradle-git plugin.
 */
 
buildscript {
  repositories {
    jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.ajoberstar:gradle-git:1.2.0'
    classpath 'de.felixschulze.gradle:gradle-hockeyapp-plugin:3.0.1'
  }
}
 
apply plugin: 'org.ajoberstar.grgit'
apply plugin: 'de.felixschulze.gradle.hockeyapp'
 
android {
  ...
}

hockeyapp {
 ...
}
 
tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
  if (task.name.equals("uploadBetaToHockeyApp")) {
    tasks.releaseBeta.dependsOn task
  }
} 
 
task releaseBeta << {
  // Ex: v1.2.3.45
  def tagName = "v${android.defaultConfig.versionName}.${android.defaultConfig.versionCode}"
  grgit.tag.add(name: tagName, message: "Beta release ${tagName}")
  grgit.push(refsOrSpecs: [tagName])
}

build-gradle-git-simple.gradle

/**
 * This example demonstrates how to create a build task 
 * for tagging and pushing a beta release to your remote 
 * git repo using the gradle-git plugin.
 */

buildscript {
  repositories {
    jcenter()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.ajoberstar:gradle-git:1.2.0'
  }
}

apply plugin: 'org.ajoberstar.grgit'

android {
  ...
}

task releaseBeta << {
  // Ex: v1.2.3.45
  def tagName = "v${android.defaultConfig.versionName}.${android.defaultConfig.versionCode}"
  grgit.tag.add(name: tagName, message: "Beta release ${tagName}")
  grgit.push(refsOrSpecs: [tagName])
}