How to get zipalign for mac?

xiaomi mao picture xiaomi mao · May 2, 2015 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

I already have a release unsigned version apk and I am trying to sign it on my mac. On the last step it suggests to zipalign the signed apk but mac doesn't have zipalign.

I did 'brew search ' still can't find it. I searched online and can't find standalone zipalign script. I even downloaded around 90M Android sdk tool from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html#Other but still found no zipalign inside.

So my question is, given you an "apk" file to sign on mac, how to get through the last "zipalign" step?

Answer

xiaomi mao picture xiaomi mao · May 2, 2015

Thanks the info from RC.

I finally got through this. I did in following steps:

  1. Download 250M+ android studio ide dmg from official site. Drag it into Application folder
  2. Open it, and it automatically downloads a lot of additional stuff
  3. I even created a empty new project.

Then in certain step(I am not sure which step) it created zipalign here:

~/Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/22.0.1/zipalign

If you only need "zipalign", you don't need to redo those steps, which takes time and disk space. I extracted it into the github(Can't believe no one has extracted it -_- ):

https://github.com/catccaatt/zipalign