Sign Android Gradle plugin artifact using the Gradle signing plugin

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Thank you. This works like you said. With your solution, I had to depend on the “assembleRelease” task in task foo. I am trying to understand why two tasks were used here.

For example, the following works, too:

    val assembleAndSignApk by registering {
        dependsOn("assembleRelease")

        val apk = layout.buildDirectory.file("outputs/apk/release/${rootProject.name}-$version.apk")

        inputs.file(apk)
        outputs.file(apk.map { it.asFile.resolveSibling("${it.asFile.name}.asc") })

        doLast {
            signing {
                useGpgCmd()
                sign(*inputs.files.files.toTypedArray())
            }
        }
    }

I noticed a difference, though. Without the dependency, I get an error regarding the input file missing, whereas with your solution, I get an error about the dependency missing instead.

I want to understand why two tasks are needed and why my approach causes a different error when the dependency is missing.