Android - use ant to create build configurations that change configuration values

Question

What I want is a way to have settings that are dependent on build configuration. To give a specific example, my android application connects to a web service. In developme

Answer 1

As answers mentioned above says, you have to place the URLs in a property file like dev.properties, test.properties, prod.properties etc..

Now only thing that you need to do is making your build intelligent enough to choose a property file depending upon environment.

That can be done by passing a parameter to ANT, something like:

$ ant -file MyBuild.xml -DcurrentEnv=dev (For Development environment)
$ ant -file MyBuild.xml -DcurrentEnv=test (For Test)
$ ant -file MyBuild.xml -DcurrentEnv=prod (For Production)

Inside your build script, this is how you can include your property file:

With this in place, whatever name you supply at the time of build, property file with that name will be picked up.