use new mechanism to release

Author: mariodavid

RELEASE.md

@@ -7,9 +7,6 @@ To create a release of this application component do the following:
 
 1. commit & push your changes to Github
 2. wait for travis to be build
-3. switch isSnapshot in build.gradle to false (make sure it is currently 0.3.1, isSnapshot = true)
-4. commit & push your changes to Github
-5. ./tag-release.sh 0.3.1 (which creates a git tag and pushes it to Github)
-6. Update the title "version 0.3.1" and description of the tag in the Github UI
-7. ./upload-to-repository.sh <<MY_REPO_USERNAME>> <<MY_REPO_PASSWORD>> (optional <<MY_REPO_URL>> as third parameter, otherwise will use bintray)
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+3a. `./gradlew release -Prelease.useAutomaticVersion=true` to update to next patch version (0.3.2)
+3b.  `./gradlew release -Prelease.useAutomaticVersion=true -Prelease.releaseVersion=0.4.0 -Prelease.newVersion=0.4.1-SNAPSHOT` to update to next minor version (0.4.0)
+4. Update the title "version 0.3.1" and description of the tag in the Github UI