Fastlane gradle command - properties not passed

Question

I created a fastlane task for uploading to the Play Store as follows:

  lane :DEPLOY_BETA do

  gradle(task: "clean")

  version_codes = google_play_track_version_codes(
      package_name: "",
      json_key: "play_store_service_account_key.json",
  )

  gradle(
    task: "assemble",
    flavor: "World",
    build_type: "Release",
    properties: { "versionCode" => 100 }
  )

  apk_path = Actions.lane_context[SharedValues::GRADLE_APK_OUTPUT_PATH]
  supply(
    apk: apk_path,
    json_key: "play_store_service_account_key.json",
    package_name: "",
    track: "beta",
    skip_upload_metadata: true,
    validate_only: true,
    skip_upload_images: true,
    skip_upload_screenshots: true
    )

  end

The problem is that the property versionCode doesn't override the versionCode specified in the flavor(nor defaultConfig). Is this a bug in fastlane? If i don't set the versionCode in build.gradle at all it simply adds no versionCode and fastlane supply will fail.

Can anyone help me out here?

Answer 1

I had the same problem. And you have to use them inside your build.gradle, something like this:

versionCode project.hasProperty('versionCode') ? project.property('versionCode') as int : 1 versionName project.hasProperty('versionName') ? project.property('versionName') : "No versionName"

I found this comment inside the original pull request. Seems like gradle don't expose those directly and we need to assign them manually (as per this comment).