Splitting android application in to two 'branches', free and paid

Question

I've developed an android-application that I'dd like to put up on the marketplace. However, I want to split it into two separate applications, one free (with ads), and one paid (logically without ads). How would I go about doing that? I'm not wondering about adding ads (I've alreaddy managed that), but how to take one existing android-application (eclipse-project) and split it into two without having to create a new project and just copy-paste every file one by one (or in batch for that matter). Is that possible?

Btw, I use GIT for SCM, so I've made two separate branches, one master and one free, but I need to set some cind of config-value that makes shure that the market separates them as two different applications.

Also, when a user 'upgrades', is it possible to copy the db from the free app to the paid one?

Answer 1

You could use the Maven Android Plugin to build multiple versions of the same application. You could then specify a different AndroidManifest for each version (in order to specify a different Application Package Name for each version).

Your free and paid version of your app would be different profiles in Maven.