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

Define simple function in gradle file:

def getVersion(){
    def out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    exec {
        executable = 'git'
        args = ['describe', '--tags']
        standardOutput = out
    }
    return out.toString().replace('\n','')
}

Use it:

project.version = getVersion()