TestFairy is an android application beta testing and deployment platform. Read TestFairy platform features and detailed description here.
As you upload a build to TestFairy, its process on the uploaded build and do some dynamic code injection. During the process, it forgets that the build was signed with a keystore. Before the build is made available for beta testers to download, TestFairy sign your build with a keystore key of its own. This will result in your application not working properly for the services that like Facebook, Google Map, In-App Purchases, Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) etc.
Here is the workaround!! Instead of you just uploading your build to TestFairy, you can use the command line uploader script mentioning your keystore details. In this post, we’ll see the configurations and how to execute test fairy command line uploader script. This will be helpful for integrating bamboo, Jenkins or other CI build automation tools.
1. Download TestFairy Command Line Upload Script
Let us download the TestFairy command line upload script from GitHub. Once you have the testfairy-upload.sh the file you can change the following parameters as per your project configurations.
# Put your TestFairy API_KEY here. Find it in your TestFairy account settings. TESTFAIRY_API_KEY="Put your TestFairy API key here" # Your Keystore, Store pass and Alias, the ones you use to sign your app. KEYSTORE=build-dir/MyProject/keystore/myapp.keystore STOREPASS=android ALIAS=myapp # Tester Groups that will be notified when the app is ready. Setup groups in your TestFairy account testers page. # This parameter is optional, leave empty if not required TESTER_GROUPS="Distribution Group Name" # Comment text will be included in the email sent to testers COMMENT="Put your update comment here" # locations of various tools CURL=/usr/bin/curl ZIP=/usr/bin/zip KEYTOOL=/usr/bin/keytool ZIPALIGN=/Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/build-tools/19.1.0/zipalign JARSIGNER=/usr/bin/jarsigner
2. Executing Command Line Upload Script
$ chmod a+x testfairy-upload.sh $ ./testfairy-upload.sh bin/MyApp.apk
If the script execute successfully, you will see the output in the code
Uploading bin/MyApp.apk to TestFairy.. OK! Downloading instrumented APK.. OK! Re-signing APK file.. jar signed. Warning: No -tsa or -tsacert is provided and this jar is not timestamped. Without a timestamp, users may not be able to validate this jar after the signer certificate's expiration date (2283-11-17) or after any future revocation date. OK! Uploading signed APK to TestFairy.. OK! The build was successfully uploaded to TestFairy and is available at: https://app.testfairy.com/projects/6521-myapp/builds/142823
The above code works fine and build getting uploaded to TestFairy. But there is one problem, if you are uploading build from CI tool, you would like to see the comments from developers for each build. In such case, you have to pass another command line parameter containing the release comment. This release comment will be sent over invitation email.
#!/bin/sh
UPLOADER_VERSION=1.09
# Put your TestFairy API_KEY here. Find it in your TestFairy account settings.
TESTFAIRY_API_KEY="Put your TestFairy API key here"
# Your Keystore, Storepass and Alias, the ones you use to sign your app.
KEYSTORE=build-dir/MyProject/keystore/myapp.keystore
STOREPASS=android
ALIAS=myapp
# Tester Groups that will be notified when the app is ready. Setup groups in your TestFairy account testers page.
# This parameter is optional, leave empty if not required
TESTER_GROUPS="Distribution Group Name"
# Should email testers about new version. Set to "off" to disable email notifications.
NOTIFY="on"
# If AUTO_UPDATE is "on" all users will be prompt to update to this build next time they run the app
AUTO_UPDATE="off"
# The maximum recording duration for every test.
MAX_DURATION="10m"
# Is video recording enabled for this build
VIDEO="on"
# Add a TestFairy watermark to the application icon?
ICON_WATERMARK="on"
# Comment text will be included in the email sent to testers
COMMENT="New Build"
# locations of various tools
CURL=/usr/bin/curl
ZIP=/usr/bin/zip
KEYTOOL=/usr/bin/keytool
ZIPALIGN=/Applications/adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20130917/sdk/build-tools/19.1.0/zipalign
JARSIGNER=/usr/bin/jarsigner
SERVER_ENDPOINT=http://app.testfairy.com
usage() {
echo "Usage: testfairy-upload.sh bin/TennisTV.apk"
echo
}
verify_tools() {
# Windows users: this script requires zip, curl, and sed. If not installed please get from http://cygwin.com/
# Check 'zip' tool
${ZIP} -h >/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Could not run zip tool, please check settings"
exit 1
fi
# Check 'curl' tool
${CURL} --help >/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Could not run curl tool, please check settings"
exit 1
fi
OUTPUT=$( ${JARSIGNER} -help 2>&1 | grep "verify" )
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Could not run jarsigner tool, please check settings"
exit 1
fi
# Check 'zipalign' tool
OUTPUT=$( ${ZIPALIGN} 2>&1 | grep -i "Zip alignment" )
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Could not run zipalign tool, please check settings"
exit 1
fi
OUTPUT=$( ${KEYTOOL} -help 2>&1 | grep "keypasswd" )
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Could not run keytool tool, please check settings"
exit 1
fi
}
verify_settings() {
if [ -z "${TESTFAIRY_API_KEY}" ]; then
usage
echo "Please update API_KEY with your private API key, as noted in the Settings page"
exit 1
fi
if [ -z "${KEYSTORE}" -o -z "${STOREPASS}" -o -z "{$ALIAS}" ]; then
usage
echo "Please update KEYSTORE, STOREPASS and ALIAS with your jar signing credentials"
exit 1
fi
# verify KEYSTORE, STOREPASS and ALIAS at once
OUTPUT=$( ${KEYTOOL} -list -keystore "${KEYSTORE}" -storepass "${STOREPASS}" -alias "${ALIAS}" 2>&1 )
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
usage
echo "Please check keystore credentials; keytool failed to verify storepass and alias"
exit 1
fi
}
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
usage
exit 1
fi
# before even going on, make sure all tools work
verify_tools
verify_settings
APK_FILENAME=$1
if [ ! -f "${APK_FILENAME}" ]; then
usage
echo "Can't find file: ${APK_FILENAME}"
exit 2
fi
COMMENT=$2
# temporary file paths
DATE=`date`
TMP_FILENAME=.testfairy.upload.apk
ZIPALIGNED_FILENAME=.testfairy.zipalign.apk
rm -f "${TMP_FILENAME}" "${ZIPALIGNED_FILENAME}"
/bin/echo -n "Uploading ${APK_FILENAME} to TestFairy.. "
JSON=$( ${CURL} -s ${SERVER_ENDPOINT}/api/upload -F api_key=${TESTFAIRY_API_KEY} -F apk_file="@${APK_FILENAME}" -F icon-watermark="${ICON_WATERMARK}" -F video="${VIDEO}" -F max-duration="${MAX_DURATION}" -F comment="${COMMENT}" -A "TestFairy Command Line Uploader ${UPLOADER_VERSION}" )
URL=$( echo ${JSON} | sed 's/\\//\//g' | sed -n 's/.*"instrumented_url"\s*:\s*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' )
if [ -z "${URL}" ]; then
echo "FAILED!"
echo
echo "Upload failed, please check your settings"
exit 1
fi
URL="${URL}?api_key=${TESTFAIRY_API_KEY}"
echo "OK!"
/bin/echo -n "Downloading instrumented APK.. "
${CURL} -L -o ${TMP_FILENAME} -s ${URL}
if [ ! -f "${TMP_FILENAME}" ]; then
echo "FAILED!"
echo
echo "Could not download APK back from the server, please contact [email protected]"
exit 1
fi
echo "OK!"
/bin/echo -n "Re-signing APK file.. "
${ZIP} -qd ${TMP_FILENAME} 'META-INF/*'
${JARSIGNER} -keystore "${KEYSTORE}" -storepass "${STOREPASS}" -digestalg SHA1 -sigalg MD5withRSA ${TMP_FILENAME} "${ALIAS}"
${JARSIGNER} -verify ${TMP_FILENAME} >/dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "FAILED!"
echo
echo "Jarsigner failed to verify, please check parameters and try again"
exit 1
fi
${ZIPALIGN} -f 4 ${TMP_FILENAME} ${ZIPALIGNED_FILENAME}
rm -f ${TMP_FILENAME}
echo "OK!"
/bin/echo -n "Uploading signed APK to TestFairy.. "
JSON=$( ${CURL} -s ${SERVER_ENDPOINT}/api/upload-signed -F api_key=${TESTFAIRY_API_KEY} -F apk_file=@${ZIPALIGNED_FILENAME} -F testers-groups="${TESTER_GROUPS}" -F auto-update="${AUTO_UPDATE}" -F notify="${NOTIFY}")
rm -f ${ZIPALIGNED_FILENAME}
URL=$( echo ${JSON} | sed 's/\\//\//g' | sed -n 's/.*"build_url"\s*:\s*"\([^"]*\)".*/\1/p' )
if [ -z "$URL" ]; then
echo "FAILED!"
echo
echo "Build uploaded, but no reply from the server. Please contact [email protected]"
exit 1
fi
echo "OK!"
echo
echo "Build was successfully uploaded to TestFairy and is available at:"
echo ${URL}
Now, we can run the above script by passing two arguments. One for the APK path and other is for comment for your build. This comment will be sent to the tester over email.
$ chmod a+x testfairy-upload.sh $ ./testfairy-upload.sh bin/MyApp.apk "$@Your build update comment here"