Question

I’m working on android project and I want to set some variable on running time, how to do it ?

to be more specific I want to have two running configuration:

1. pre production configuration: where I use an url for testing (exemple String url = staging.domain.net)
2. production configuration: where I use an other url (exemple url = api.domain.net)

I though about using ant but I have no idea how !

Edit 1:

My application accesses remote servers and services, using a test URL, sometime I want to use the production URL and not test url. So is possible to have two running configuration setting ?

Answer 1

You can define both URLs in your code and decide which one to use depending on BuildConfig.DEBUG.

Alternatively, if you don’t want to define them in your code you can use a property (setprop prop value) and then retrieve it in your app (getprop prop).

If you are using the emulator there’s even a -prop option

-prop <name>=<value>           set system property on boot