I currently distribute my Android apps on Android Market, SlideMe and Amazon app store. Android Market and SlideMe require a signed binary, while Amazon requires an unsigned one. I also need to differentiate some of the code to be compiled depending on which store I’m targeting. Currently I only need to display different text/link information, but in the future there may be a need to change things like included libraries.
I am using Eclipse on Windows to build my projects. I am looking for the easiest way to conditionally compile the code and create multi-target builds as required for each store.
I don’t need the builds to be triggered automatically by commits or timers or anything of that nature. I only need to trigger the builds manually.
Appreciate any suggestions.
You might find that Jenkins will help with this. It supports parameterised builds, plus also matrix builds. Matrix builds multidimensional parameterised builds – you specify a series of sets of values, and every combination is built.
eg:
Jenkins would build all the combinations of above.
Obviously you will still need an Ant build script to do the hard work, but I believe Android’s SDK has reasonable support for Ant.