Android Studio Build/apk Not Visible

I'm using the Crashlytics plugin for beta testing, but the only way to upload an apk is to drag it from within Android Studio. In the terminal, I can access /build/apk/,

Solution 1:

Android Studio automatically hides certain directories to reduce the load of indexing all those files. If you look in your module's iml file (e.g. root/main_module/main_module.iml), you'll see this line:

<excludeFolder url="file://$MODULE_DIR$/build/apk" />

If you remove that line, it will start showing root/main_module/build/apk/ in the file tree.

Unfortunately, Android Studio is smart enough to notice that it's missing and will add it again when it builds, so it's not really worth doing.

You can see a little more of the conversation I've had with one of the Googler's on the Android Studio project here: https://plus.google.com/104239612059033457922/posts/RVq9e9Viux5

Solution 2:

As for Android Studio 4.1.3 in year 2021, my best response is: Go into the project view of your project, click 'app' in the top bar of the project view for the file path of "yourProject/app", the 'build' directory will show up in a list along with 'src' automatically. Select the 'build' directory with your mouse and then you can get into all the sub-directories of the 'build', including 'outputs' for apk generated.