Huawei AppGallery

.YAML Publishing Huawei AppGallery

How to deploy an app to Huawei AppGallery using codemagic.yaml

Codemagic enables you to automatically publish your iOS or Android app to Huawei AppGallery.

Creating an API Client in Huawei AppGallery

An API client is an identity credential used by AppGallery Connect to manage user access to AppGallery Connect APIs. Before accessing an API, you must create an API client with the permission for accessing the API. The procedure is as follows:

Sign in to AppGallery Connect and click Users and permissions.
Go to API key > Connect API and click Create.
For Name, enter a custom client name. Set Project to N/A, select the required roles, and click OK.

Note: Set Project to N/A to define the API client as a team-level one. Otherwise, the result code 403 will be returned during API calls.

After the client is successfully created, you need to save the Client ID and the Client Secret (Key) to environment variables in a group named app_gallery for example.

Get the App ID

Sign in to AppGallery Connect and click My apps and select you app.
Go to App Information and save the App ID to the environment variables as well in the app_gallery environment group.

App Signing

If you want to release your app in App Bundle format .aab and use the dynamic delivery feature, you will need to sign your app.

You will need to upload the signing key to the Codemagic environment variables so Codemagic can sign your app before publishing it, see the docs.

Go to your app page.
Go to App Signing tab in the Services section.
Choose the first option (Let AppGallery connect create and manage app signature for you).
After you create your upload key, you need to export a PEM certificate for the new upload key.

$ keytool -export -rfc -keystore YOUR_KEYSTORE.jks -alias upload -file upload_certificate.pem

Upload the upload_certificate.pem file and click Submit.

Adding the Fastlane script to your code

First, you need to set up Fastlane at your project by running fastlane init command, see the docs.

Now add this lane to your Fastfile file.

  lane :huawei do
    gradle(
      task: 'bundle', #apk & aab
      build_type: 'Release',
      print_command: true,
    )

    huawei_appgallery_connect(
    client_id: "#{ENV["CLIENT_ID"]}",
    client_secret: "#{ENV["CLIENT_SECRET"]}",
    app_id: "#{ENV["APP_ID"]}",
    apk_path: "./app/build/outputs/bundle/release/app-release.aab",

    # Optional, Parameter beyond this are optional
    is_aab: true,
    submit_for_review: true,
    delay_before_submit_for_review: 20,
)
  end

Publish to the AppGallery store

After you set everything up you need to execute the lane from you codemagic.yaml file, so add this to your scripts section:

      - name: Publish to the AppGallery store
        script: | 
          fastlane add_plugin huawei_appgallery_connect
          bundle install
          bundle exec fastlane huawei

The whole codemagic.yaml file should look something like this:

workflows:
  android-fastlane:
    name: Android Fastlane
    instance_type: linux_x2
    environment:
      groups:
        - app_gallery # <-- (Includes CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, APP_ID)
      android_signing:
        - codemagic_test
    scripts:
      - chmod +x gradlew
      - name: Publish to the AppGallery store
        script: | 
          fastlane add_plugin huawei_appgallery_connect
          bundle install
          bundle exec fastlane huawei
    artifacts:
      - app/build/outputs/**/**/*.aab