Set build.gradle value to a value written in xml file

Question

Is there away to set a variable in the build.gradle file to a value set in the strings.xml file?

For example say I have this in my strings.xml file:

<string name="version">"1.0.0"</string>

And in my build.gradle file I had something along these lines:

 versionName: @strings/version

Answer 1

Afaik, as of now it's unavailable to read from string resource files, Android Gradle Plugin does not have such an API.

Instead, you can do the opposite using resValue() API: you can write a value to resources within build.gradle:

resValue "string", "variable_name", "some value here"