Nope no JIRA, just something I stumbled across when I was reading gradle
docs and thought I'd bring up. One other thing it avoids is getting the
certificate mismatch failure when you switch between release and debug.
Good point about being confused as to which icon is which though.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 7:55 PM, Joe Bowser <bows...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think this idea is entirely thought out. I've had debug and
> release code on devices, and all it does is confuse me when I need to do a
> demo of something. Is there a JIRA issue regarding this new feature, since
> I think this needs to be fleshed out more.
>
> On Tue Jan 06 2015 at 10:42:51 AM Andrew Grieve <agri...@chromium.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Mainly - it allows it to be installed alongside the release version of
> the
> > app.
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Brian LeRoux <b...@brian.io> wrote:
> >
> > > Why is it a good idea?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, 7:40 AM Andrew Grieve <agri...@google.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > With gradle, this is easy to do:
> > > >
> > > > android {
> > > > buildTypes {
> > > > debug {
> > > > applicationIdSuffix ".debug"
> > > > }
> > > >
> > > > Seems like a good idea to me, but I'm wondering if there may be
> reason
> > > not
> > > > to?
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
