2015-06-09-unified-versioning-of-android-wear-and-mobile-apps.md

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post	Unified versioning of android wear and mobile apps	2015-06-09 14:28:36 +0100	android

Having to update both mobile and wear version numbers & codes soon becomes a pain when you're releasing frequently and it's easy to forget. I dug into Gradle a little and found you can have project level variables so I placed the version numbers in the project level and both the wear and mobile build files reference this.

gradle.properties (project level)

...
VERSION_NAME=1.0.0
VERSION_CODE=1
build.gradle (module level)

android {
    defaultConfig {
        versionName project.VERSION_NAME
        versionCode Integer.parseInt(project.VERSION_CODE)
        ...
    }
...