Ready for Android app release-Generate channel packs

We need to use a variable to indicate the channel of the app, usually we can declare it under the application node in manifest, as follows.

<meta-data    android:name="CHANNEL_NAME"    android:value="CHANNEL_VALUE" />

Then replace the Channel_value value with the corresponding channel name. We can use Gradle's flavor to do it for us.

 productFlavors {        wandoujia {}        qihu360 {}        baidu {}        hiapk {}        shoujizhushou {}        tencent {}        xiaomi {}        anzhi {}        uc {}        appchina {}        wangyi {}        mumayi {}        huawei {}        lenovo {}        flyme {}    }    productFlavors.all { flavor ->        flavor.manifestPlaceholders = [CHANNEL_VALUE: name]    }

Of course, sometimes we need to configure some channels to automatically update, some channel department automatically update, this time need a variable to indicate. We let all channels support automatic Updates by default, so that the pea pods do not update automatically.

defaultConfig {        "boolean""AUTO_UPDATES""true"    }

productFlavors {        wandoujia {            "boolean""AUTO_UPDATES""false"        }}

This variable can be obtained in the program

boolean autoUpdate=BuildConfig.AUTO_UPDATES;

Even sometimes you need to change the name of the generated apk so that you can define the generated name yourself

//Get Product namedefGetproductname () {return "ProductName"}//Get timestampdefGetDate () {defDate =NewDate ()defFormatteddate = Date.format (' YYYYMMDDHHMM ')returnformatteddate}android {...//Modify the generated apk nameApplicationvariants.all {variant-variant.outputs.each {output-defOldFile = Output.outputfiledefNewName ="';if(Variant.buildType.name.equals (' Release ')) {defReleaseapkname = Getproductname () +"-v${defaultconfig.versionname}-"+ variant.productflavors[0].name +'-signed.apk 'Output.outputfile =NewFile (Oldfile.parent, Releaseapkname)}if(Variant.buildType.name.equals (' Beta ') {newName = Getproductname () +"-v${defaultconfig.versionname}-"+ variant.productflavors[0].name +"-build"+ getDate () +". apk"Output.outputfile =NewFile (Oldfile.parent, NewName)}if(Variant.buildType.name.equals (' Debug ') {newName = Getproductname () +"-v${defaultconfig.versionname}-"+ variant.productflavors[0].name +"-debug"+ getDate () +". apk"Output.outputfile =NewFile (Oldfile.parent, NewName)}}}

Finally, we also need to get our channel name in the program to do some follow-up operations, such as doing some statistical work

        String channel=AppUtil.getMetaValue(this,"CHANNEL_NAME");        Log.d("TAG",channel);

When everything is done, we can create a channel bundle.
Open the terminal and enter the following command to generate all the channel packs.

gradlew assembleRelease

You can also click the Gradle button on the right side of Andorid studio, which has a circular execute Gradle task button in the popup window, command Line input Assemblerelease Click OK can also generate all channel packages

It takes a little time to generate all the channel packages, and all the packages that are generated in the APP/BUILD/OUTPUTS/APK directory after the build is complete. Upload the corresponding package to the corresponding channel.

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Ready for Android app release-Generate channel packs