Hi there, please help me understand how to configu...

# gradle

[max]

Hi there, please help me understand how to configure processResources correctly. What I’m trying to do is: I have a file: src/main/res/xml/file.xml which has a string like <external-path name="my_images" path="Android/data/{$appId}/files/Pictures/" />. Now I’m trying to replace appId token in gradle build script as follows:

tasks {
    withType<ProcessResources> {
        filesMatching("${projectDir}/src/main/res/xml/file.xml") {
            val tokens = mapOf("appId" to "myApplicationId")
            expand(tokens)
        }
        outputs.upToDateWhen { false }
    }
}

But that seems not working. Build finishes without errors, but if I open that xml file after artifact is produced, the template is not fulfilled. I spend on this a almost a day, please help me understand what’s wrong here.

[trevjones]

I think the task type ProcessResources is a task that operates on src/*/resources items. but you are trying to process an android resource. can you use ${applicationId} in any xml res file or does that only work in the manifest?

[trevjones]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39224217/dynamically-replace-applicationid-in-the-file-paths-xml

[max]

Thank you @trevjones I don’t know how didn’t i came across this stackoverflow answer, I’ll try this now. It should work. I think I was just stuck on looking into that ProcessResources as a solution. Out of pure curiosity then: about the task configuration I posted in the beginning, if I want to process and expand some other Android specific templates (in src/res not in src/resources) will this task be useful at all? I can probably use from method of this task for this?

[trevjones]

that part gets complicated because of the timing of when that android tool chain handles resource processing. It would probably be more appropriate to implement a custom transform. http://google.github.io/android-gradle-dsl/javadoc/current/