Ignore less important or sensitive files while pushing code to remote repository

Nowadays Git is included in every project we created on android studio so there must be some files or directories which we don’t want to share on a remote repository and prefer to keep safe on our local machine in that case .gitignore file comes to the rescue.

.gitignore file tells VCS, the files/directory path mentioned in the .gitignore file, don’t need to upload to the remote repository so on the safe side files ignored while pushing code to the remote repository.

I am sharing already made template for android so you can just copy and paste it to save time and search for ignoring less important and sensitive files to remote repository

# Gradle files
.gradle/
build/

# Local configuration file (sdk path, etc)
local.properties

# Log/OS Files
*.log

# Android Studio generated files and folders
captures/
.externalNativeBuild/
.cxx/
*.apk
output.json

# IntelliJ
*.iml
.idea/
misc.xml
deploymentTargetDropDown.xml
render.experimental.xml

# Keystore files
*.jks
*.keystore

# Google Services (e.g. APIs or Firebase)
google-services.json

# Android Profiling
*.hprof

Source: https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Android.gitignore