Hi i have an android gradle build issue i cannot find a solution for...

I think that you need to share much more details, which plugins do you use, which error do you get etc… who should create that properties file for you?

Is new relic a tool that you pay for? Perhaps it would be best to get in contact with their support team regarding this.

i have no idea where to start 🤦 for android "flavours" gradle supports a very simple configuration approach as shown here

productFlavors {

development {

dimension "default"

buildConfigField 'String', 'NEW_RELIC_TOKEN', '"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX-YYYYY"'

}

staging {

dimension "default"

buildConfigField 'String', 'NEW_RELIC_TOKEN', '"ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ-YYYYY"'

}

production {

dimension "default"

buildConfigField 'String', 'NEW_RELIC_TOKEN', '"HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-YYYYY"'

}

}

when i build for either of the three defined "flavours" the correct token is used however I also need to use the correct token in the flat file documented above does gradle support dynamically populating a file or dynamically creating a file within my project structure

I don’t know relic, when you did not write that code (gradle file) ask that person who did it. otherwise check their documentation or ask the support.

surely its not related to new relic? all i need to know is if gradle will allow me to create a file or write to an existing file? 🤔

basically you can do whatever you want with gradle

That's pretty easy generally. You have the file

mobile-android/app/newrelic.properties

in

src/main/resources

with a placeholder for the value, then you configure the

processResources

task to

filter

the file content where one filter is to replace such placeholders. I just don't know how it is with Android in the play, whether you can configure the task according to the flavor, or whether there are different tasks or whatever as I don't do any Android.

Working with flavors dynamically is quiet complex, however it took me 3 days to get this implemented in a custom plugin