Bulk publish Android apps

Question

We have several applications that will be very similar in layout and code. The only difference is that we will turn off graphic elements and make changes to one constant file and a string file. Of course, there are a few problems with this - the first is the namespace. Having an application with the same namespace will overwrite any other applications.

What are some suggestions for this? Currently our names are: com.company.AppName I decided I could do it: com.company.appname.appversion

I saw a post about ant scripts that help with this, but I wonder if there are now more fluid solutions.

Answer 1

I would suggest looking at the Android Library Projects to help with this.

I use this approach for Lite and Free edtions of one of my applications. I have a library project that contains the entire source and most resources for applications, and then 2 projects that use the first library project, one for Lite and one for the full version.

Each of the two dependent projects has its own resources and manifest, which allows the namespace to be different and change me in different lines, drawings, etc. depending on the release.

I tried the Ant approach, but it looked much more complicated than the approach to the library project. Hope this helps.