title: Gradle signing.properties can no longer be found
body: <p>I was using the following code in my app's build.gradle to load in my signing properties for signing my app.  My signing.properties was in the project root folder (not app)</p>
  
  <p>Upgrading to the latest Gradle/Android Gradle plugin it now reports signing.properties not found and I have to move my signing properties to the module root folder.</p>
  
  <p>How can I open the file from the project root as before?  I share my signing.properties between mobile and wear apps.</p>
  
  <pre><code>...
  def Properties props = new Properties()
  def propFile = new File('signing.properties')
  if (propFile.canRead()) {
      props.load(new FileInputStream(propFile))
  
      if (props.containsKey('STORE_FILE') &amp;&amp; props.containsKey('STORE_PASSWORD') &amp;&amp;
              props.containsKey('KEY_ALIAS') &amp;&amp; props.containsKey('KEY_PASSWORD')) {
          android.signingConfigs.release.storeFile = file(props['STORE_FILE'])
          android.signingConfigs.release.storePassword = props['STORE_PASSWORD']
          android.signingConfigs.release.keyAlias = props['KEY_ALIAS']
          android.signingConfigs.release.keyPassword = props['KEY_PASSWORD']
      } else {
          println 'signing.properties found but some entries are missing'
          android.buildTypes.release.signingConfig = null
      }
  } else {
      println 'signing.properties not found'
      android.buildTypes.release.signingConfig = null
  }
  ...
  </code></pre>