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

You could try to have a following property file in your build.properties file:

service.url=*

And you could have http://localhost:1234 or https://test.mydomain.com in local.properties for your development and integration testing, and it could be set to https://mydomain.com in default.properties.

By do ing this, you have will get different value for service.url in different build environment. You could use that value to generate a config file, and parse it into your code, or set it to env variable, or just put it into a resource file, and Android will read it for you:

    @@toben_to_be_replaced_during_build_time@@