AndroidStudio: Renamed APK is not used when installing the app

[Stefan Hoth]

Hi,

to have a better idea what I just build I renamed my APKs according a few rules using this:

buildTypes {

        //debug, release, etc...

        applicationVariants.each { variant ->

            def apk = variant.packageApplication.outputFile;

            def newName = "";

            newName = apk.name.replace(".apk", "-v" + defaultConfig.versionName + "-" + variant.buildType.name.toUpperCase() + ".apk");

            

            variant.packageApplication.outputFile = new File(apk.parentFile, newName);

            if (variant.zipAlign) {

                variant.zipAlign.outputFile = new File(apk.parentFile, newName.replace("-unaligned", ""));

            }

        }

    }

Result is something like "MyCoolApp-v1.0.15-RELEASE.apk"

While this is working well on the cmd line I get an error when trying to install the app from Android Studio since it doesn't pick up the changed name and only fails with

"Local path doesn't exist."

Is there a rename the apk within gradle so Android Studio understands it?

Cheers,

Stefan

[Xavier Ducrohet]

did you reload the build.gradle?

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[Stefan Hoth]

Yes I did, of course. :-)

The output after assembleMyFlavorDebug is called is:

Uploading file

local path: C:\workspaces\myproject\app\build\apk\app-myFlavor-debug.apk

remote path: /data/local/tmp/com.myapp.debug

Local path doesn't exist.

Can you reproduce this behavior?

Stefan

[Xavier Ducrohet]

I just took a quick look at it and the output file coming from the model is disconnected from the final task output (ie it's a copy not a link).

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=56781

[Stefan Hoth]

That's what I thought.

"1 person starred this issue"

Thanks,

Stefan

[Xavier Ducrohet]

BTW this code of yours is awful... (my fault, not yours).

You should be able to do just this

android.applicationVariants.each { variant ->

    def apk = variant.outputFile // you can already do that, and it'll return the right name whether you zip align or not

    // change apk to something else

    ...

    variant.outputFile = apk

}

Those methods already exist but the setter on variant.outputFile doesn't do the right thing.

[Rainer Burgstaller]

I am wondering whether such a naming convention for output files such as Stefan has proposed shouldnt be the default? IMHO very few people will be happy with every apk having the same name. In the "ant" days, you always hooked into the build chain and then had to rename it. I have seen such a process in many projects. Of course customization is important but good defaults would be nice.

cheers

- Rainer

[Xavier Ducrohet]

That's true, we can definitively improve the default name.

[Stefan Hoth]

Since the bug is not fixed in 1.0.9 I want to ask if there's way to recognize that a build is started from Android Studio instead of the console. This way I could skip the renaming while building in AS. Any advice how I could achieve this?

Thanks,
Stefan

[Xavier Ducrohet]

The fix requires a change on the gradle side. We have an upcoming synchronized released of the Gradle plugin and Studio with a modified model that will support this.

[Vishal Vyas]

Hi Xavier Ducrohet, even I was facing the similar issue and in the below script in the getDate() function

def formattedDate = date.format('yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm') // this works

def formattedDate = date.format('yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm:ss') // this doesn't. and it gives local path doesnot exists (it has the 'ss' seconds switch)

// script start

android {

    

    ....

    defaultConfig {....}

    buildTypes {

        debug {

            def formattedDate = getDate()

            versionNameSuffix "debug-" + formattedDate

            applicationVariants.all { variant ->

                variant.outputs.each { output ->

                    output.outputFile = new File(output.outputFile.parent,

                            output.outputFile.name.replace("-debug", "-" + formattedDate)

                    )

                }

            }

        }

    }

    sourceSets {....}

}

def getDate() {

    def date = new Date()

    def formattedDate = date.format('yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm') // this works

//    def formattedDate = date.format('yyyy-MM-dd-HH:mm') // this doesn't. and it gives local path doesnot exists.

    return formattedDate

}

// script end

AndroidStudio Current version : 1.2 Preview 3 EAP.0 (build 141.1793788)

Gradle version : 2.2.1

any thoughts on this?

[Xavier Ducrohet]

I'm guessing this works for a minute. If you wait a bit it'll stop working :)

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[Alex D.]

I keep getting irregular "I/O error (The system cannot find the file specified)" errors, I highly suspect there is an issue with gradle.

    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->

            def outputFile = output.outputFile
            if (outputFile != null && outputFile.name.endsWith('.apk')) {
                def fileName = outputFile.name.replace(".apk", "-" + get_some_string() + ".apk")
                output.outputFile = new File(outputFile.parent, fileName)