android - Different app names for different build flavors?

Question

I have 2 build flavors, say, flavor1 and flavor2.

I would like my application to be named, say, "AppFlavor1" when I build for flavor1 and "AppFlavor2" when I build for flavor 2.

It is not the title of activities I want to change. I want to change the app name as it's displayed on the phone menu and elsewhere.

From build.gradle I can set various parameters for my flavors but, it seems, not the app label. And I can not change the app label programmatically based on some variable, too.

So, how do people handle this?

Answer 1

Remove app_name from strings.xml (else gradle will complain of duplicate resources). Then modify build file like this:

productFlavors {
    flavor1{
        resValue "string", "app_name", "AppNameFlavor1"
    }

    flavor2{
        resValue "string", "app_name", "AppNameFlavor2"
    }
   } 

Also make sure @string/app_name value is assigned for android:label attribute in the manifest.

<application
        ...
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        ...

This is less disruptive than creating new strings.xml under different built sets or writing custom scripts.