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ZombieD
ZombieD

Reputation: 31

Azure DevOps Android increase versioning during the build

How should I increase my version number in an android project, as a step of build pipeline app center deployment? Does the Azure DevOps has a version manager plugin, or should I create a version.properties file and edit, commit, push into the current branch?

Build pipeline:

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Upvotes: 3

Views: 4625

Answers (4)

Ram Sankhavaram
Ram Sankhavaram

Reputation: 1228

This can be done more clean with out using the properties file and then replacing that using a shell script.

In the top level build.gradle file, under the build scripts:

buildscript {

    def getVersionCode = { ->
        def code = project.hasProperty('versionCode') ? versionCode.toInteger() : -1
        println "VersionCode is set to $code"
        return code
    }

    
    def getVersionName = { ->
        def name = project.hasProperty('versionName') ? versionName : "1.0"
        println "VersionName is set to $name"
        return name
    } 

    ext{
        versionCode = getVersionCode()
        versionName = getVersionName()
    }
}

In your module specific gradle file :

defaultConfig {
        versionCode rootProject.ext.versionCode
        versionName rootProject.ext.versionName
}

In your Devops pipeline for the gradle build task, just pass on the options like so:

-PversionName=$(Build.BuildNumber) -PversionCode=$(Build.BuildId)

Upvotes: 2

ZombieD
ZombieD

Reputation: 31

The best solution for me was make a version.properties file to track versioning and then modify it during the pipeline build process (shell script). The others are bad especially for custom versioning.

Upvotes: 0

Jayendran
Jayendran

Reputation: 10910

There is an existing task called Mobile App Tasks for iOS and Android in the marketplace which was developed by James Montemagno

You can find the step-by-step instruction in the github

He has developed this task mainly to address this kind of versioning in both android/IOS Apps.

Upvotes: 0

Shayki Abramczyk
Shayki Abramczyk

Reputation: 41545

Unfortunately is no out of the box support, but you can find here a good tutorial:

  • Install Colin's ALM Corner Build & Release Tools that include Version Assemblies task.

  • In the Android manifest the name and code should look like this:

    android:versionCode="1" android:versionName="1.0.0"

  • Add the “Version Assemblies” task TWICE, once for the version name and once for the version code.

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Once added, we will bump the name.

First insert the following (with examples):

  • Source Path: src/MobileApps/MyDriving/MyDriving.Android/Properties
  • File Pattern: AndroidManifest.xml
  • Build Regex Pattern: (?:\d+.\d+.\d+.)(\d+)

Under Advanced:

  • Build Regex Group Index: 0
  • Regex Replace Pattern: versionName=“\d+.\d+.\d+
  • Prefix for Replacements: versionName=”

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What this will do is update the version name to the Build number format found under “General”, which mine is set to 1.0.0$(rev:.r)

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Now for the next one, which is the version code:

  • Source Path: src/MobileApps/MyDriving/MyDriving.Android/Properties
  • File Pattern: AndroidManifest.xml
  • Build Regex Pattern: (?:\d+.\d+.\d+.)(\d+)

Under Advanced:

  • Build Regex Group Index: 1
  • Regex Replace Pattern: versionCode=“\d+
  • Prefix for Replacements: versionCode\

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And just like that you are good to go. This will simply update it with the current version revision :)

Upvotes: 0

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