I realzed that I have to create custom tasks after reading other questions and answers:
How to change the generated filename for App Bundles with Gradle?
Renaming applicationVariants.outputs' outputFileName does not work because those are for .apks.
I'm using Gradle 5.4.1 so my Copy task syntax reference is here.
I don't quite understand where the "app.aab" name string came from, so I defined my own aabFile name string to match my toolchain's output.
I don't care about the source file so it's not deleted by another delete task.
Also my toolchain seems to be removing unknown variables surrounded by "${}" so I had to work around ${buildDir} and ${flavor} by omitting the brackets and using concatenation for proper delimiting.
tasks.whenTaskAdded { task ->
if (task.name.startsWith("bundle")) { // e.g: buildRelease
def renameTaskName = "rename${task.name.capitalize()}Aab" // renameBundleReleaseAab
def flavorSuffix = task.name.substring("bundle".length()).uncapitalize() // "release"
tasks.create(renameTaskName, Copy) {
def path = "$buildDir/outputs/bundle/" + "$flavorSuffix/"
def aabFile = "${android.defaultConfig.applicationId}-" + "$flavorSuffix" + ".aab"
from(path) {
include aabFile
rename aabFile, "${android.defaultConfig.applicationId}.aab"
}
into path
}
task.finalizedBy(renameTaskName)
}
}
As the original answer said: This will add more tasks than necessary, but those tasks will be skipped since they don't match any folder.
e.g.
Task :app:renameBundleReleaseResourcesAab NO-SOURCE