Azure-devops-docs: Highlight that this task is not necessary for Android Signing

[xyfoo]

Similar to how iOS certificate is highlighted

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• ID: 2a5f8376-3654-0ed4-d9f8-d15f28350783
• Version Independent ID: f393daba-6515-6c26-71ac-b557e8c8dad1
• Content: Download Secure File task - Azure Pipelines
• Content Source: docs/pipelines/tasks/utility/download-secure-file.md
• Product: devops
• Technology: devops-cicd
• GitHub Login: @DavidStaheli
• Microsoft Alias: dastahel

[pmullins-ewn]

@xyfoo, any chance you can point me to docs that show how to sign an Android APK without downloading secure files? Looks like I've run into an issue with access to secure files, so a workaround would be nice :)

[xyfoo]

@pmullins-ewn, my observation with Xamarin.Android project is that you don't explicitly need a DownloadSecureFile task, and supply the variable name into the AndroidSigning task.

You can just directly supply the secure file name to the AndroidSigning task, and it would download the secure file as part of the task.

- task: AndroidSigning@3
  inputs:
    apkFiles: '**/*.apk'
    apksignerKeystoreFile: MySecureFileNameInPipelineLibrary
    apksignerKeystorePassword: '$(android.signing.keystore.password)'
    apksignerKeystoreAlias: '$(android.signing.keystore.alias)'
    apksignerKeyPassword: '$(android.signing.password)'

[pmullins-ewn]

Neat, thanks for the quick response. I'll give that a go. My issues were related to some strange file authorization problems, so I'm not sure if this will work for me, but it does save me from that DownloadSecureFile whenever I do get it figured out. Thank you!

[pmullins-ewn]

@xyfoo that actually circumvented my issue! thanks a million :)

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