Gradle Copy As Dolast Not Working

I am trying to do a very simple thing. As gradle removes all files in the build dir when cleaning I want to move the apks somewhere else when creating release versions. So I added

Solution 1:

First of all, you have to know, that just adding the task name into your closure, in your case it's copyApks, doesn't really mean that this task should be executed. It's just the same, as you specified a variable, but do nothing with it.

And one more, note, the both variants paths are the same, that means that you are trying to copy tha same files twice. Actually, that not the only reason, you have to understand, that your copy task is configured yet in the configuration phase, when you are trying to call it during the execution phase, so you can't change it's from and into parameters, and this task will always behave the same.

If you want to call some tasks one after another, you have a number of choices, like task dependencies, task finalization or task ordering. You can read about it in the official user guide. There is a way to call some task like a method call, but this is a very poor solution and you have to avoid using it.

So, if you want to call a copy task, then you may try solution like this

assembleRelease.finalizedBy copyApks

This will call a copy task always every time assembling is done.