With the help of Gradle and the Android plugin, you can easily automate processes that in the past needed to be manually done and a lot of time-consuming activities. Among the advantages of these configurations, we find Android Gradle Build Configuration, with which you can get different versions of your app with variations for things like testing, using different backend endpoints, switching...
When building Android apps, you’ll be facing a myriad of different file formats and terminology. Particularly when exporting the final version of your app, you’ll be seeing two main output formats. In this article, we’ll compare Android App Bundle versus APK, which are composed of DEX files. But what do all these acronyms mean? Acronym meaning Before digging deeper into the topics, it’s important...
Gradle has been the official Android build tool for quite some time now. It was introduced alongside Android Studio. Before the Android Gradle plugin, Android apps were built in Eclipse with ANT, another build tool. But even though it’s one of our basic everyday tools as Android developers, sometimes we don’t know what is behind it. Let’s learn what is behind this powerful tool. Photo by Bia...
