Automatic versioning of Android build using git describe with Gradle

Question

I have searched extensively, but likely due to the newness of Android Studio and Gradle. I haven\'t found any description of how to do this. I want to do basically exactly

Answer 1

Yet another way:

https://github.com/gladed/gradle-android-git-version is a new gradle plugin that calculates android-friendly version names and version codes automatically.

It handles a lot of special cases that are not possible using the accepted solution:

• version tags for multiple projects in the same repo
• expanded version codes like 1002003 for 1.2.3
• gradle tasks for easily extracting version info for CI tools
• etc.

Disclaimer: I wrote it.