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Farax
Farax

Reputation: 1477

User flow for providing multiple versions (environments) of mobile app to end users

We are trying to provide multiple environments to our end users and want to create one single bundle for both IOS and Android. Currently we have a hidden feature (clicking on the version number to open an environment selection screen: Dev, QA, UAT or Prod). However, I am wondering if there are better or recommended ways of achieving this same effect somehow.

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (1)

arungiri_10
arungiri_10

Reputation: 988

I can help you with Android on managing Environments using Gradle file.

Let's say you have a app with package name - com.company.sampleapp

In gradle your applicationId will be com.company.sampleapp

Now we can create different flavors for different environment and we can also have different applicationId as shown below.

android {
    flavorDimensions "default"

    productFlavors {
       production {
           dimension "default"
           applicationId 'com.allegion.leopard'
       }
       //App will have package name appended with .qa
       qa {
           dimension "default"
           applicationId 'com.allegion.leopard.qa'
       }
       //App will have package name appended with .dev
       dev {
           dimension "default"
           applicationId 'com.allegion.leopard.dev'
       }
   }
}

Once this is done, you can choose build variants and create APK for that build. Added image for clarity

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Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 0

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