Android Studio: Switching a URL depending on buildtype? (used for testing in debug /release)
You can use the BuildConfig for supplying different URLs for each BuildType
buildTypes {
debug {
buildConfigField "String", "SERVER_URL", '"http://someurl/"'
}
release{
buildConfigField "String", "SERVER_URL", '"http://someotherurl/"'
}
}
The BuildConfig will be autogenerated each time you sync your project with the gradle file. In your code, you can access the URL like this:
BuildConfig.SERVER_URL
If you don't want to commit these URLs, you can store them in your gradle.properties just like your password and such and reference them in the build.gradle.
buildConfigField "String", "SERVER_URL", serverurl.debug
buildTypes {
release {
runProguard false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"url1"'
debuggable false
}
debug {
runProguard false
proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"url2"'
debuggable true
}
This you need to do in the gradle and to make run two applications(release and debug) in a same phone just add
applicationIdSuffix ".debug"
in debug portion. As the package name will be different. This worked for me.