| name | android-generate |
| description | Build the Android APK for the mobile app by running npm run android:apk. Use when the user asks to generate, build, or produce an Android APK / release / install file for apps/mobile. |
Android Generate
Runs the project's existing Android APK release command.
The APK bakes in EXPO_PUBLIC_API_BASE at prebuild time, so the API the build targets is decided by the environment present when the script runs. Default (no env set) builds against prod (https://api.useorbit.org).
This local build always uses Google TEST AdMob ad units (never real ads) and skips the Sentry source-map upload (which requires the CI-only SENTRY_AUTH_TOKEN), so QA installs never serve live ads and the build never fails on a missing Sentry token. Real-ad production releases — with source maps uploaded to Sentry — ship only through the .github/workflows/android-release.yml CI workflow, which injects the real AdMob IDs + Sentry token and guards against shipping test units.
Steps
Prod (default)
- From the repo root, run
npm run android:apk -w @orbit/mobile. The android:apk script is defined in the apps/mobile workspace (node scripts/android-release-apk.js), not at the root, so it must be targeted with -w @orbit/mobile.
