While continuing to develop my application and test it on a real phone, I need to have the release version of it on the same phone, for demonstration purposes (the release version is much more responsive, thanks to no-logs).
The problem is that the only way to make two applications co-exist on the same device in Android is by having different package names.
But package names require re-factoring and lots of propagating manual fixes… not to mention that this confuses version control…
Ideally, Eclipse+ADT would allow appending a modifier variable that would automatically generate a different package name for debug/release and would allow such co-existence, but I couldn’t find any mechanism that allows doing that.
Do you know of any way to workaround this?
Creative solutions and ideas are welcome.
You may want to try this technique using ant, Jenkins and perhaps other tools to automate package renames as suggested by @LAS_VEGAS.
Although not what you asked for, this cool code snippet can help you find out at runtime whether your code is debug or release.
Another interesting such attempt can be found in this thread. I am not sure though if it works on Android.