How to include version string in the filename when building Android apk with ant?

Question

Normally we build android package in debug mode with the command

ant debug

and got the apk filename AppName-debug.apk.

Answer 1

Another, more Android-like solution is to use the XPATH task as it is done in the ${sdk.dir}/tools/ant/build.xml:

This requires the definition of the task:

I don't know which is the minimum SDK version, but it works with SDK14.

Regards, Michael