Release Build

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Generating a signing key

You can generate a private signing key using keytool. On Windows keytool must be run from C:\Program Files\Java\jdkx.x.x_x\bin.

$ keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias my-key-alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

Set up for generating Signed Apk click here

Generating the release APK

** $ cd android && ./gradlew assembleRelease

Testing the release build of your app

** $ react-native run-android --variant=release