Expose Gradle task to generate native debug symbols archive

Triple-T / gradle-play-publisher

GPP is Android's unofficial release automation Gradle Plugin. It can do anything from building, uploading, and then promoting your App Bundle or APK to publishing app listings and other metadata.

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Problem description

I would like to use the plugin to generate a native-debug-symbols.zip file.

Potential solutions/workarounds

It would be great if you could expose a separate Gradle task to generate the ZIP archive. As far as I understand, the publishApkTask internally generates the file, currently.

Additional context

I do not want to use any other functionality of the plugin at this point in time.
I do not want to automatically upload the APK or other files at this point in time.
Optional: Given these constraints it would be convenient if the plugin does not require me to set up configuration which I will not use later on.
Optional: It would be great if you document the feature in the README.
The new task should work for both an APK setup and an App Bundle setup.
The functionality to upload native debug symbols is available since version 3.1.0.

I realized that your plugin "only" picks up the archive - it does not generate it. The archive is generated under the following requirements:

Android Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 or newer is used.
android.ndkVersion "21.3.6528147" is defined.
android.defaultConfig.ndk.debugSymbolLevel = "FULL" is defined.

The generated file can then be found in app/build/outputs/native-debug-symbols/<BuildVariant>/native-debug-symbols.zip

Here are the relevant documentation links:

I hope this helps others learning about this topic. You might want to pick some of the information and copy them into your README. You are welcome.

Feel free to close this issue once you are done.

Triple-T / gradle-play-publisher