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I'm developing one of my first Android apps. I come from an ASP.NET world where it's trivial to have separate Web.config files for dev, test, and production. Does anyone have a good, automated way of doing this for Android via Eclipse?

Rohan Singh
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  • I should clarify, what I'm looking for is a good automated way of maintaining separate res/values/*.xml files for dev, test, and production. – Rohan Singh Aug 29 '10 at 04:22
  • Take a look at this question: http://stackoverflow.com/q/1743683/214184 It worked out great for me. – slowpoison Oct 11 '11 at 00:44

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I know question is late, but I will answer.

For have separate build for 'dev', 'test', 'production' you may use Gradle.

In build.gradle file you may define separate buildTypes like this:

buildTypes {
    release {
      runProguard false
      proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
      debuggable false
      versionNameSuffix "r"
    }

    debug {
      versionNameSuffix "d"
      debuggable true
    }

    test {
      applicationIdSuffix ".test"
      versionNameSuffix "t"
      debuggable false
    }

The above snippet achieves the following:

  • config release, debug, and test builds
  • set versionNameSuffix to refer to the version string which is build
  • set applicationIdSuffix for may install test and release build on one device
  • and most usefull Gradle Build Types can contribute to the build with resources: src/[buildtypename]/res. So you can have separate resource for separate builds.

For more info go to http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide

Gwaeron
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Have a command line ant based build system that takes "dev", "test", "production" as parameters and copies in the appropriate xml files for the build. This assumes that you already have a set of xml/config files for them.

omermuhammed
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