Where is zipalign file thingy ?

Simple Gamer Arts

Hello, I really don't understand much of this, but, I already have KeyTool and Jarsigner... but no Zipalign. Yes, I already looked for it manually, but did not find it.

Can someone give a detailed way of finding it or creating it... I don't really know much about this.

(I already looked for information on the internet, but I dont understand that stuff)

Simple Gamer Arts

@adent42 Hi Adent, I'm so near the end, just these complicated details that I need to straighten out. I'm trying to make APK to test my game on on a device. Can you help me with this ? thank you

adent42

So first off it's better to use the command line and not GameSalad since we don't support aab as part our current desktop app signing process and new apps will require AAB.

Here's the mac version: https://help.gamesalad.com/gamesalad-cookbook/publishing/4-android-publishing/terminal-signing-optional/

To answer your specific question. zipalign is not part of the java SDK but part of android sdk's build tool, so you will need to download that. You can either install Android studio or grab the base command line tools from here: https://developer.android.com/studio

and then use sdkmanager to install sdk command line tools. I have my android sdk installed in ~/android-sdk and i have the command line tools downloaded above installed in ~/android-sdk/tools so I install the build tools as follows:

~/android-sdk/tool/bin/sdkmanager "build-tools;30.0.3"

Here's a more complete guide for install android tools in general:

https://guides.codepath.com/android/installing-android-sdk-tools

If you need more detailed help reach out to our chat box and we'll see what we can do.