how to build and sign release apk in IONIC 2

Question

I need to release a signed apk of my ionic 2 project. Here is official documentation for publishing an app. but here I need to manually sign my unsigned apk generated by cordova build --release android. Is there a way to automate these steps so that signed apk can be produced in one step? I have found a blog post here. but it is not working for me and giving error Failed to read key alias_name from store "alias_name" is my actual alias_name.

Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

issue is now resolved as it was just a problem with my alias_name password. it is working fine now as described in the tutorial. For anyone reading this, just a side note that alias_name password is same as the keystore password.