Question

I use Ant to build my Android application. I want to be able to do this:

ant debug android-market; //build the debug version for android-market;
ant debug motorola-market; //Builds debug version for motorola-market;
ant release android-market; //etc.

Is there a way to detect that “android-market” parameter from within my custom ant debug/release task?

I would prefer not to use Dparam=value, since that is less clean looking.

Answer 1

This syntax is used to invoke multiple targets at once. So you could perhaps use

ant android-market debug

and make the android-market target set a property used in the debug target to identify which version to build:

<project basedir="." default="debug">
  <target name="android-market">
    <property name="market" value="android"/>
  </target>

  <target name="debug">
    <echo message="debugging for the following market : ${market}"/>
  </target>
</project>

> ant android-market debug
> android-market:
> debug:
> [echo] debugging for the following market : android