File already exists error

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Hi,

Thanks for creating the report here!

If you’re referring to

That’s the expected behavior. If the file already exists at the target path, the step will append a timestamp to the filename, to prevent accidental overwrite of an existing APK.

Can we prevent this unnecessary APK to be created?

Absolutely!

  • You can either tweak your Gradle configs to not to generate that APK for the task you run (I guess you run the assemble gradle task, which generates both a Debug and a Release APK by default)
  • Or tweak/set the Gradle Runner step’s APK file include filter input. The default value is *.apk, to copy all generated APKs into the deploy directory, but you can change this to e.g. */app-knee-generic-development-debug.apk (based on your log) to only copy the app-knee-generic-development-debug.apk to the deploy directory.

If you’d have any questions, just let us know!

Happy Building! :slight_smile: