grunt-xamarinbuildandsign

Builds and signs your Xamarin.iOS and/or Xamarin.Android apps

Based off of a previous blog post and gist.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.5

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-xamarinbuildandsign --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-XamarinBuildAndSign');

The "XamarinBuildAndSign" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named XamarinBuildAndSign to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  XamarinBuildAndSign: {
    type: "",
    project: "",
    configuration: "",
    keychainPassword: ""
  },
});

Options

type

• Type: String
• Required: Yes

iOS (ipa also acceptable), or Android (apk also acceptable). Case insensitive.

project

• Type: String
• Required: Yes

Full path to the project or solution you are attempting to build and sign.

configuration

• Type: String
• Required: Yes

Debug, Release or whichever configuration is setup within your project.

keychainPassword

• Type: String
• Required: No

If specified will attempt to unlock the keychain with the specified password. Often required by your iOS build when retrieving your cert/provisioning profile pair. Only use when type is set to ios.

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
  XamarinBuildAndSign: {
    type: "ios",
    project: "/the/absolute/path/to/your/project.sln",
    configuration: "Release",
    keychainPassword: "password1"
  },
});