Gradle Advanced Build Version Plugin

If you need automatic incremental Gradle versioning, this plugin helps you to generate the Android version code and version name automatically based on git commits number, date and Semantic Versioning.

Contents

1. Installation
2. How to use
3. Version Name Configuration
4. Version Code Configuration
5. File output options

Installation

Add the advanced-build-version plugin to your build script and use the property advancedVersioning.versionName and advancedVersioning.versionCode where you need:

Gradle Advanced Build Version	Minumum AGP Version
3.0.0	8.1.0
2.0.2	8.0.0
2.0.0	7.0.0
1.7.3	3.0.0

Using the plugins DSL:

plugins {
    id "me.moallemi.advanced-build-version" version "3.0.0"
}

Using legacy plugin application:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }

  dependencies {
    classpath 'me.moallemi.gradle:advanced-build-version:3.0.0'
  }
}

apply plugin: 'me.moallemi.advanced-build-version'

How to use

advancedVersioning {
  nameOptions { }
  codeOptions { }
  outputOptions { }
}

def appVersionName = advancedVersioning.versionName
def appVersionCode = advancedVersioning.versionCode

Version Name Configuration

You can customize version name in your build.gradle file as follows:

advancedVersioning {
  nameOptions {
    versionMajor 1
    versionMinor 3
    versionPatch 6
    versionBuild 8
  }
}

the above configuration will output 1.3.6.8

there is no need to specify all params because they will be handled automatically. for example:

advancedVersioning {
  nameOptions {
    versionMajor 1
    versionBuild 8
  }
}

will output 1.0.0.8 and

advancedVersioning {
  nameOptions {
    versionMajor 1
    versionMinor 3
  }
}

will output 1.3

Version Code Configuration

To customize version code in your build.gradle file write:

Groovy:

advancedVersioning {
  codeOptions {
    versionCodeType 'GIT_COMMIT_COUNT'
  }
}

Kotlin:

import me.moallemi.gradle.advancedbuildversion.gradleextensions.VersionCodeType.*

advancedVersioning {
  codeOptions {
    versionCodeType(GIT_COMMIT_COUNT)
  }
}

versionCodeType can be one of following params:

• GIT_COMMIT_COUNT will output total commits number in current branch
• AUTO_INCREMENT_STEP will output e.g: 26

If you are using CIs like Jenkins, CircleCI or GitHub Actions, and you want to use GIT_COMMIT_COUNT, consider checking out repositories with --depth=1 parameter. You should clone your repository with full history or unshallow an already existing one.

For GitHub Actions consider fetch-depth: 0:

steps:
- name: Checkout
  uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0

AUTO_INCREMENT_STEP store AI_VERSION_CODE in version.properties file in build.gradle directory, you may also change dependsOnTasks property to specify that on witch tasks should increase version code (default is every task that contains 'release' in its name)

AUTO_INCREMENT_STEP allows you to set a step different from 1:

advancedVersioning {
  codeOptions {
    versionCodeType 'AUTO_INCREMENT_STEP'
    versionCodeStep 2 //default to 1
  }
}

File output options

You can also rename the output generated apk file with this plugin. it can be done just by enabling the renameOutput option:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput true
  }
}

If your app name is MyApp with 2.7 version name, and you are in debug mode, the output apk file name will be: MyApp-2.7-debug.apk

NOTE for v 2.x.x Only: Android Gradle Plugin 4.1.0 drops support for renaming apk. We are using a workaround to keep renaming option for gradle-advanced-build-version library. So if you are using AGP 4.1.0+, you have to add advancedVersioning.renameOutputApk() after android configuration. The order is important:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput true
  }
}
android {
  ...
}
advancedVersioning.renameOutputApk()

You can customize the output name by using this params:

• ${appName}: name of main module
• ${projectName}: name of root project
• ${flavorName}: flavor name
• ${buildType}: build type
• ${versionName}: version name
• ${versionCode}: version code

Groovy:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput true
    nameFormat '${appName}-${buildType}-${versionName}'
  }
}

Kotlin:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput(true)
    nameFormat("\${appName}-\${buildType}-\${versionName}-\${versionCode}")
  }
}

And you can also use custom string in nameFormat like:

Groovy:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput true
    nameFormat '${appName}-google-play-${versionName}'
  }
}

Kotlin:

advancedVersioning {
  outputOptions {
    renameOutput(true)
    nameFormat("\${appName}-google-play-\${versionName}")
  }
}

If your app name is MyApp with 4.6.1 version name the output apk file name will be: MyApp-google-play-4.6.1.apk

License

Copyright 2024 Reza Moallemi.

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