Maven and android - Slightly different builds for different environments

Question

Ok I am switching from ant to maven on an android project and wondering if it the following would be easy to implement:

Currently I have a custom build.xml script wh

Answer 1

In Maven, this is called resource filtering, android-maven-plugin support filtering the following resource types:

• AndroidManifest.xml, see this answer.
• assets/, see this answer.
• res/, see below.

Sample res/value/config.xml:

  ${config.server.url}

Sample pom configuration for filtering all xml file under res/ directory:

  
    
      ${project.basedir}/res
      true
      ${project.build.directory}/filtered-res
      
        **/*.xml
      
    
  
  
    
      maven-resources-plugin
      
        
          initialize
          
            resources
          
        
      
    
    
      com.jayway.maven.plugins.android.generation2
      android-maven-plugin
      true
      
        
          10
        
        true
        ${project.build.directory}/filtered-res
      
    
  

There are several ways to define the substituted value, you can define them in an external properties file with properties-maven-plugin. For simplicity, I prefer to use Maven profiles and define them in pom.xml, like so:

  
    dev
    
      dev.company.com
    
  
  
    Test
    
      test.company.com
    
  
  
    Prod
    
      prod.company.com
    
  

Then use mvn clean install -Pxxx to build corresponding apk.