Add Release Workflow to reduce maintainers burden

[KolbyML]

Here is a github workflow to help you with releases, I know doing tedious stuff like that is tedious, so I hope this helps <3

Here are some instructions if needed written by ai for reference on how to generate the secrets if needed

1. Generate a New Keystore
If you do not have a keystore file yet, run this command in your terminal. It will create a file named release.keystore.

Bash

keytool -genkey -v -keystore release.keystore -alias ankiconnect_key -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
Password: You will be prompted to create a password. Remember this for KEYSTORE_PASSWORD and KEY_PASSWORD.

Alias: The command above sets the alias to ankiconnect_key.

Details: You can press Enter to skip the organizational questions.

2. Encode Keystore for GitHub
GitHub Secrets cannot store binary files, so you must convert the .keystore file into a text string.

For Mac or Linux:

Bash

base64 -w 0 release.keystore > secrets_to_copy.txt
For Windows (PowerShell):

PowerShell

[Convert]::ToBase64String([System.IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("release.keystore")) | Out-File -FilePath secrets_to_copy.txt
3. Add Secrets to GitHub
Open your repository on GitHub.

Go to Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions.

Click New repository secret for each of the following:

Name: ANDROID_SIGNING_KEY Value: (Copy the entire long text string from secrets_to_copy.txt)

Name: KEY_ALIAS Value: ankiconnect_key

Name: KEYSTORE_PASSWORD Value: (The password you created in Step 1)

Name: KEY_PASSWORD Value: (The password you created in Step 1)

4. Enable Workflow Permissions
You must allow the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN to create releases.

In your repository Settings, go to Actions > General.

Scroll to Workflow permissions.

Select Read and write permissions.

Click Save.