How to set up gradle and android studio to do release build?

Question

I want to build android app and start signing it. For that I need to have Release version of apk. Google documentation suggests only Eclipse and ant ways to have release bu

Answer 1

1. open the Build Variants pane, typically found along the lower left side of the window:

2. set debug to release
3. shift+f10 run!!

then, Android Studio will execute assembleRelease task and install xx-release.apk to your device.