Android manifest file with properties from other property file

Question

In general android manifest for my app that uses google map v2 looks something like this:

<manifest>
   ...       
   <application>
      ...
      <!-- Goolge API Key -->
      <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
        android:value="XYZ...ZYX" />
      ...
   </application>
<manifest>

The question is, if it's possible to do something like this:

<manifest>
   ...       
   <application>
      ...
      <!-- Goolge API Key -->
      <meta-data
        android:name="com.google.android.maps.v2.API_KEY"
        android:value="@{my.google.api.key}" />
      ...
   </application>
<manifest>

and have my_local.property file in my project with line: my.google.api.key=XYZ...ZYX ?

Answer 1

You can use string resources for this and manifest would be

android:value="@string/google_api_key"