[TIMOB-19173] Tiapp: Add <build> element to set CFBundleVersion and android:versionCode

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	New Feature
Priority	Medium
Status	Open
Resolution	Unresolved
Affected Version/s	Release 4.1.0
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Android, iOS
Labels	cb-tooling, titaniumlib
Reporter	Fokke Zandbergen
Assignee	Chris Barber
Created	2015-07-06T11:54:12.000+0000
Updated	2020-03-06T21:35:48.000+0000

Description

I'm preparing a blog post about versioning your apps now TIMOB-17993 has been resolved in 4.1.0: https://gist.github.com/FokkeZB/f7ae3ab57eb8185a338d. Read the draft as context for this ticket. It's great that developers can now manually set the CFBundleVersion as they could android:versionCode. However, I think we can improve the workflow by introducing a <build> element that wants an integer value that will be used for both CFBundleVersion and android:versionCode (and other - Windows - platform's build versions) unless the developer has set these manually of course.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ti:app xmlns:ti="http://ti.appcelerator.org">
    <id>com.appcelerator.myapp</id>
    <name>MyApp</name>
    <version>1.1.0</version>
    <build>123</build>

Some other subtasks would follow out this as well if we decide to do this: * Expose the new element in the TiApp Editor in Studio. * Expose the value via Ti.App.build in the SDK (TIMOB-18909). * <version> should be used for the release version as-is and not [truncated](https://github.com/appcelerator/titanium_mobile/blob/master/iphone/cli/commands/_build.js#L2080), leaving it up to the developer.

Comments

Fokke Zandbergen 2015-07-06

This would make TISTUD-5088 not needed anymore, saving the Editor from becoming too complicated, even more since we then should also expose CFBundleVersion and CFBundleShortVersionString as well.
Fokke Zandbergen 2015-07-06

For both the new <build> and the existing <version> we need to fix that Ti.App.version and Ti.App.build do not use the platform-specific build and release versions when set in the <android> and <ios> sections. TIMOB-18909
Ygor Lemos 2016-05-23

Is there an alternative for this on recent Ti releases?
Fokke Zandbergen 2016-05-23

Would these help you atm? * http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/Titanium-property-buildHash * http://docs.appcelerator.com/platform/latest/#!/api/Titanium-property-buildDate
Ygor Lemos 2016-05-23
Fokke Zandbergen 2016-05-24

[~ygbr] As Titanium will default CFBundleShortVersionString and android:versionName to <version> you don't need to set these (as long as both platforms are on the same version). To increment CFBundleVersion and android:versionCode I normally use a Grunt/Gulp script each time I build. The same script could then also write that version to app/config.json for use in the app. But of course resolving this ticket would make it easier.
Ygor Lemos 2019-01-15

up!

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