It would be nice to have an ability to generate both AAB and APK builds in a single command using the same configuration.
The current workflow if you want to generate APK out of your AAB file is to use the “Export Universal APK” step which uses bundletool to generate universal APK of out previously generated AAB, but the issue with that is that it requires providing signing keys “externally” in order for the generated APK to be signed properly, which doesn’t work with some configurations where signing configuration is setup in the project (gradle) itself.
The best solution for such thing would be to use the app:packageXXXReleaseUniversalApk command in a chain to existing bundleXXXRelease command like:
gradle app:bundleXXXRelease app:packageXXXReleaseUniversalApk
When built in this way the output would both contain the AAB and APK generated from it, both signed by the same release key configured for that variant/flavor without affecting the build time too much.