Working with test/beta/production websites

[23tony]

I'm working on a project that communicates with a web API. I have a localhost I've been working with so far, and I have the base url defined in a configs.xml resource file:

<string name="base_url">http://10.0.2.2/</string>

The website has a test. and beta. subdomain, so a live test would need

<string name="base_url">http://test.example.com/</string>

What I'm wondering is: how do I make this something I can easily configure for different builds, other than manually changing this value for each build?

 

[Deleted User]

Your current strategy of using an XML file to configure this is a good one. But I'm wondering if you can make use of build variants. It's not something I've used before, but I'm aware of the feature

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants

 

[23tony]

Your current strategy of using an XML file to configure this is a good one. But I'm wondering if you can make use of build variants. It's not something I've used before, but I'm aware of the feature

https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants

That might just be exactly what I was looking for - thank you!