Setting Android version code in Ionic 2 / Cordova

Question

I'm completely stuck with a crazy issue. I'm not able to publish an update of my app in Google Play store because current version code is 101002.

Now, I don't understand how that code was generated. In my config.xml I tried using the following versions:

1.3
1.3.1
1.3.1.1

but every time it generates a version code like:

10300
10310
10311

that is always lower than the current version code: 101002

I also tried to build using the following command:

ionic cordova build android --prod --release -- -- --versionCode=103020

but it doesn't work

I can't manually set the version code of the Manifest file because it's generated by ionic 2 build process. Any idea?

Arcadian

Answer 1

You can specify a custom version-code in config.xml. Add the following property to the <widget> element (the root element): android-versionCode="101003".

This is an example of a full <widget> tag with more properties that are probably useful:

<widget android-versionCode="100" id="your.bundle.id" ios-CFBundleVersion="1.0.0" version="1.0.0" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/ns/widgets" xmlns:cdv="http://cordova.apache.org/ns/1.0">

• version is the version displayed in the app stores, can stay the same across different builds
• android-versionCode this is used by Google-Play to differentiate between your builds, must always be higher than the previous one
• CFBundleVersion is used by iTunesConnect to differentiate your builds, must always be higher than the previous one
• id is where you define the bundle identifier of your app, this must always stay the same

Phrygian

Glad to help! Here is the documentation for config.xml if you need to lookup something else: cordova.apache.org/docs/en/latest/config_ref – Phrygian

How it can be done automatically integrate with CI/CD GItlab pipeline? – Bondholder

Answer 2

If you compile your project with Android Studio, you can change it in the App-> Manifests-> AndroidManifest.xml folder

Hellbent