How to change app name per Gradle build type

Question

I am trying to figure out a way to be able to change my application\'s app name per build type in gradle.

For instance, I would like the debug version to have

Answer 1

The app name is user-visible, and that's why Google encourages you to keep it in your strings.xml file. You can define a separate string resource file that contains strings that are specific to your buildTypes. It sounds like you might have a custom qa buildType. If that's not true, ignore the qa part below.

└── src
    ├── debug
    │   └── res
    │       └── buildtype_strings.xml
    ├── release
    │   └── res
    │       └── buildtype_strings.xml
    └── qa
        └── res
            └── buildtype_strings.xml