Custom rules build file for Android to copy APK to different output folder

custom_rules.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<project name="custom_rules" >

	<property name="grep" location="${basedir}/extras/tools/grep.exe" />
	<property name="sed" location="${basedir}/extras/tools/sed.exe" />
	<property name="glowworm.build.dir" location="${basedir}/build" />
	<property name="temp.out.aapt" location="${glowworm.build.dir}/aapt.out" />
	<property name="temp.out.grep" location="${glowworm.build.dir}/grep.out" />

	<target name="-post-build" description="Copies the output file into custom build folder.">

		<!-- EXTRACT APPLICATION NAME AS SET IN ANDROID MANIFEST FROM BUILT APK FILE -->
		<exec executable="${aapt}" taskName="aapt" outputproperty="null">
			<arg value="dump" />
			<arg value="badging" />
			<arg path="${out.final.file}" />
			<redirector output="${temp.out.aapt}" alwayslog="false"/> 
		</exec>
		<exec executable="${grep}" taskName="grep" outputproperty="null">
			<arg value="application-label" />
			<arg value="${temp.out.aapt}" />
			<redirector output="${temp.out.grep}" alwayslog="false"/> 
		</exec>
		<exec executable="${sed}" taskName="sed" outputproperty="glowworm.build.appname">
			<arg value="-r" />
			<arg value="&quot;s/(application-label:)*([ '])*//g&quot;" />
			<arg value="${temp.out.grep}" />
		</exec>

		<!-- COPY COMPILED APK INTO OUTPUT FOLDER -->
		<echo>Copying ${out.final.file} to ${glowworm.build.dir}\${glowworm.build.appname}.apk</echo>
		<copy file="${out.final.file}" tofile="${glowworm.build.dir}/${glowworm.build.appname}.apk" overwrite="true"/>

		<!-- CLEAN UP TEMPORARY FILES -->
		<delete file="${temp.out.aapt}"/>
		<delete file="${temp.out.grep}"/>

	</target>

</project>

Custom rules file for Android ANT build script.

Copies the output APK file to the .\build folder, and renames it according to the name set in the Android manifest file.

Requires grep.exe and sed.exe to exist in .\extras\tools folder - self-contained executables can be found at:

• http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/UnxUpdates.zip