Originally published on May 3, 2023 at https://bruno.verachten.fr/2023/05/03/android-and-jenkins-releases/ The previous blog post of this series discusses what I think makes CI/CD for mobile app development a unique kind of animal, and my first steps in building Android apps with Jenkins. We were left with a working declarative pipeline per branch, one Docker image per branch too, and an application binary ready to be deployed. Ready, really?\ Release management I was able to find the binaries in the workspace in a matter of seconds, but there is no release available, only binaries. This means there would be some manual steps required to create a versioned release that we can deliver to test users, for example. We could manually create a release within GitHub and then copy-paste the binaries from Jenkins\ artifact archives to the GitHub release page. We could also do the same for the Google Play Store…​ However, this approach is neither efficient nor error-proof.…