How to set different version number in android build types?

Question

I need to set two different android build types i.e. staging and release.

 defaultConfig {
    applicationId "com.app.testing"
    minSdkVersion 19
    targetSdkVersion 23
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
}

release {
        minifyEnabled false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        buildConfigField "String", "SERVER_URL", '"http://testing.com"'
        }

dev {
        applicationIdSuffix  ".dev"
        buildConfigField "String", "SERVER_URL", '"http://testing.com"'
    }

Now I want to add versionName for each build type. How can I do that?

Edit

  productFlavors{
   release {
        versionname = "1.0"
   }

   dev{
       versionname = "1.0"
   }
}

Answer 1

You can also use different version names for each build type without using flavors

In your app-module build.gradle:

  defaultConfig {
      ...
      versionName ""
  }
      ...
  buildTypes {

      debug {
          ...
          versionNameSuffix 'debug-version-1'
          ...
      }

      release {
          ...
          versionNameSuffix 'version 1'
          ...
      }


  }

versionName "" did the trick.

Answer 2

You can use productFlavors like below:

productFlavors
{
   test
   {
     applicationId 'com.example.test'
     versionName '1.0.0.test'
     versionCode 1
   }

   product
   {
     applicationId 'com.example.product'
     versionName '1.0.0.product'
     versionCode 1
   }
}

You can define it under your default config. You can change from build variants. You can combine your build types with flavors.

Good luck.