Using Different Sources for Testing and Release Android Studio

Question

I am writing tests to code that make calls to a RESTful web service. I need to use different variables for testing, staging and production. For an example staging release url can be 'myapp.staging.com' whereas when I test the staging flavor it should be 'localhost/27015'. Same goes for the production flavor. When it is the release it should be 'myapp.production.com'. How do I achieve these flavor, buildType combinations?

Answer 1

You can use the BuildType and the flavor to achieve it.

If you want different url for the different combination you can use a values inside your resources.

Using flavor1, flavor2 you have 4 Build Variants .
You can set the url inside the a resource, for example in the strings.xml file.
Then you can set different files in these folder to achieve what you want.

src/flavor1/
src/flavor1Debug/
src/flavor1Release/
src/flavor2/
src/flavor2Debug/
src/flavor2Release/

You can set all the other values, for example the applicationId , in the build.gradle file.

Answer 2

Yeah it's possible using productFlavours within your gradle file, so the each build variant would have it's own

• app icon
• app name
• constants(Base API URL)

Reference

Answer 3

Here's what we are Doing... This is our build File of our App.

defaultConfig {
        applicationId 'com.XXXX.XXXXfyd'
        minSdkVersion 17
        targetSdkVersion 23
        versionCode 55
        versionName "1.0.0"

        multiDexEnabled true

        buildConfigField "boolean", "OTP_ENABLED", "false";
        buildConfigField "boolean", "MINT_API_ENABLED", "false";
        buildConfigField "String", "MINT_API_KEY", "\"XXCVVF\"";

        resValue "string", "app_name", "XXXXfyd Debug"
        resValue "string", "account_name", "XXXXfyd Debug"
        resValue "string", "account_type", "com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.debug"
        resValue "string", "account_authority", "com.mind.eventifyd.debug.provider"

        buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_NAME", "\"XXXXfyd Debug\""
        buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_TYPE", "\"com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.debug\""
        buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_AUTHORITY", "\"com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.debug.provider\""

        buildConfigField "String", "XXXXXFYD_XXXXX_URI", "\"http://XXX.XXX.XX.XX\"";
        buildConfigField "String", "XXXXFYD_XXXX_URI", "\"XXXX//XXXXX@XXX.XXX.XX.XX:XXXXX\""
    }
 buildTypes {
        release {
          /*  zipAlignEnabled true
            minifyEnabled true*/
            shrinkResources false
            debuggable false
          /*  proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'*/
            signingConfig signingConfigs.release

            versionNameSuffix "-build." + getDate()

            resValue "string", "app_name", "XXXXXfyd"
            buildConfigField "boolean", "OTP_ENABLED", "false";
            buildConfigField "boolean", "MINT_API_ENABLED", "true";
            buildConfigField "String", "MINT_API_KEY", "\"efrtgyhu\"";

            resValue "string", "account_name", "XXXXXfyd"
            resValue "string", "account_type", "com.XXXX.XXXXfyd"
            resValue "string", "account_authority", "com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.provider"

            buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_NAME", "\"XXXXifyd\""
            buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_TYPE", "\"com.XXXX.XXXXifyd\""
            buildConfigField "String", "ACCOUNT_AUTHORITY", "\"com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.provider\""

            buildConfigField "String", "XXXFYD_XXXX_URI", "\"https://com.XXXX.XXXXfyd.XXXXXes.com\"";
            buildConfigField "String", XXXXXFYD_XXXX_URI", "\"XXXX://XXXXX@XXXXXfyd.XXXXerXXXXs.com:XXXX\""
        }
        debug {
          /*  zipAlignEnabled true
            minifyEnabled false*/
            debuggable true
            applicationIdSuffix ".debug"
            signingConfig signingConfigs.debug
            versionNameSuffix "-debug-build." + getDate()
        }
    }

    productFlavors {
        dev {
            minSdkVersion 19
        }
        prod {
            minSdkVersion 17
        }
    }