Having multiple builds of same flutter app on android device

Question

For debugging purposes - I want to have multiple builds of my flutter app. One - should be from google play and few others like "App Name - Dev" Or "App Name - STG". I tried to use flavors and modifying android:label="@string/app_name" however I cant install new build of app - android complains with following message - app not installed as package conflicts with an existing package

So how do I have multiple builds of same app on my device?

jayesh gurudayalani · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-12 12:20:03Z

1

In device or playstore , app is identified by bundle id and as per error it looks like you are trying to install app with same bundle id which is already installed on device . To make same app different, you need to make bundle id different which you can achieve by flavours . Kindly consider below mentioned code

android {
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.myapp"
    }
    productFlavors {
        free {
            applicationIdSuffix ".free"
        }
        pro {
            applicationIdSuffix ".pro"
        }
    }
}

here we have two flavours

free
pro

now both will have different bundle id as applicationIdSuffix will append string at the end of original bundle id

So for free flavour , it will be com.example.myapp.free and for pro flavour , it will be com.example.myapp.pro

For more details , you can check this link

https://developer.android.com/build/build-variants#groovy

answered May 12, 2023 at 12:20

jayesh gurudayalani

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Avdept Over a year ago

Thanks bud, that seems to be what Im looking for!

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