Such a problem, Installed Android Studio installed Cordova I run the application on my phone, everything works fine. I run on the emulator, too, everything works. But for some reason, I do not see Build - Generate Signed APK enter image description here

In general, very few active fields enter image description here

Has anyone come across this and what are the ideas?

  • Apparently, now it's called Build Bundle / APK. The second item on top. - Enikeyschik

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One solution is to create an APK from the console:

$ cordova platform add android

and then for the very creation of the installer:

 $ cordova build --release

then you will have the application but it will not be signed and will be called something like this:

 app-release-unsigned.apk

in order to sign it you must first make a key and then sign your application with this key:

 $ keytool -genkey -v -keystore android.keystore -alias android-app-key -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000

sign the application:

 $ jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore android.keystore app-release-unsigned.apk android-app-key

just try not to forget your alias and keystore because they will ask you this:

 # if zipalign is not installed $ sudo apt install zipalign $ zipalign -v 4 app-release-unsigned.apk app-release.apk

and in the end you will have this file:

 app-release.apk

Good luck :)