So two apps, same name on the springboard/deck, but diff id? On Tue, Jan 6, 2015, 7:46 PM Tommy Williams <to...@devgeeks.org> wrote:
> As handy as having release and debug on the same device might be, this > might be a job for a hook and a blog post about it, instead of a built in > feature. > On 07/01/2015 1:29 pm, "Andrew Grieve" <agri...@chromium.org> wrote: > > > 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? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >