Multiple manifests for the application

Question

Can one Android app have multiple manifests? For example, one for the development stage and the other for production.

If so, how can this be implemented?

Answer 1

Use productFlavours in gradle.

productFlavors {
        prdo{
            resValue 'string', 'app_name', 'Sample APP'
            resValue 'string', 'base_url', 'http://sampleapp.com/'
        }
        staging{
            resValue 'string', 'app_name', 'Sample APP Staging'
            resValue 'string', 'base_url', 'http://sampleapp.staging.com/'
        }
}

Answer 2

Your APK file can contain just one AndroidManifest.xml file

When building your app, the Gradle build merges all manifest files into a single manifest file that's packaged into your APK.

Look at from the android official site:

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/manifest-merge

Answer 3

Use source set main and debug and put two AndroidManifest.xml into there. debug/AndroidManifest.xml will be merged for debug builds; it only has changes and/or eg. additional activities (one can also add code into that source set).

Answer 4

I beleive you want use this -> https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants