sudipbhandari126 / androidautoversion

An automatic versioning system for your Android apps

Android Auto-Version

This is a Gradle plugin, for Android developers, that automates app versioning. You can read more about this plugins inception here: http://alexfu.github.io/2015/11/09/Android-Auto-Versioning

Why

Not having to remember or worry about when to bump version numbers allows you to focus on what's really important (implementing new features or fixing bugs).

Benefits

This plugin comes with 3 simple tasks:

• releaseMajor
• releaseMinor
• releasePatch

All of these tasks will do the following when executed:

1. Bump version based on semantic versioning rules (http://semver.org)
2. Commit the versioning file (using git)
3. Tag your current branch (again, using git)

NOTE: This plugin will not push any changes to your remote server. This is up to the developer to do.

How

To use this plugin...

Step 1

Create a versioning file. This file is a simple JSON file that specifies the components that make up your version. Include it in your VCS.

{
  "buildNumber": 99,
  "major": 1,
  "minor": 0,
  "patch": 1,
  "revision": 1
}

Step 2

Include the following in your top-level build.gradle file:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'com.github.alexfu:androidautoversion:0.2.1'
  }
}

Step 3

Include the following in your app-level build.gradle file:

apply plugin: 'com.github.alexfu.androidautoversion'

androidAutoVersion {
  releaseTask "assembleRelease"
  versionFile file('/path/to/version/file')
}

Step 4

Remove versionCode and versionName from your defaultConfig block!

Usage

Every time you want to make a release, decide if it's a major, minor, or a patch. Use the rules outlined here to make your decision. Then, once you've decided, run the release task that matches your release type (releaseMajor, releaseMinor, releasePatch). At the end of it all, you'll have a tagged branch and release APKs of each app variant.