04. Prepare for Submission

Prepare for Submission

Clean your Build

Before submitting, please follow the instructions for cleaning your project files, below. This removes some temporary files and greatly decreases the size of your project.

You can download a pdf version of these instructions here:

Prepare for Submission PDF

Access the Gradle tab and run a clean build in Android Studio

Click on the Gradle tab on the right-hand pane of Android Studio, and double click on clean in the menu.

After your build runs, you will see the status in the Gradle console. You should see "BUILD SUCCESSFUL" after the clean build is complete.

That's it! You have cleaned your project file, and now it's time to compress it and upload it for review!

Please do not run or rebuild your project at this point -- doing so will re-add all the extraneous files you just cleaned.

You can check the file's size in the next step.

Locate your project file

In order to compress your project file, you'll need to locate it on your computer. To do this in Android Studio, right-click (or CTRL-click on Mac) on the project name at the top of the left-hand pane, and select Reveal in Finder

This will open your Finder, and show you where your project lives on your computer. You can get the file size information by right-clicking (CTRL-click on Mac) on the file and selecting "Get Info."

A new window will then appear with your file's size listed. If you have cleaned your files, you should see an item count similar to the screenshot, above, which shows 63 items. If you have not cleaned your files, your item count will likely be over 1,000!

Compress (zip) your file

To compress, or zip, your file, right-click (or CTRL-click on Mac) on the file in your finder, and select Compress.

This will produce a .zip of your project that you will submit for review. You may want to move this zip file to a handy place on your computer (for example, create a dedicated "ABND Projects" folder on your desktop where you can store all your ABND project zip files) so you can upload it easily to the submission page.