Autoincrement VersionCode with gradle extra properties

Question

I\'m building an Android app with gradle. Until now I used the Manifest file to increase the versionCode, but I would like to read the versionCode from an external file and

Answer 1

Another option, for incrementing the versionCode and the versionName, is using a timestamp.

defaultConfig {
   versionName "${getVersionNameTimestamp()}"
   versionCode getVersionCodeTimestamp()
}


def getVersionNameTimestamp() {
    return new Date().format('yy.MM.ddHHmm')
}

def getVersionCodeTimestamp() {
    def date = new Date()
    def formattedDate = date.format('yyMMddHHmm')
    def code = formattedDate.toInteger()
    println sprintf("VersionCode: %d", code)
    return code
}

Starting on January,1 2022 formattedDate = date.format('yyMMddHHmm') exceeds the capacity of Integers