app-release apk how to change this default generated apk name

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Whenever I generate a signed apk in Android Studio  by default it gives the name as app-release apk      Can we do any settings so that it should prompt and ask me the name which need to be assigned to the apk the way it do in eclipse   What I do is - rename the apk after it generated  This doesn t give any errors but is there any genuine way so that i can do any changes in settings to get a prompt   Note    while generating apk android studio is giving me a prompt to select the location only

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android studio 4 1 1 applicationVariants all   variant - gt    variant outputs all   output - gt      def reversion    quot 118 quot      def date   new java text SimpleDateFormat  quot yyyyMMdd quot   format new Date        def versionName   defaultConfig versionName     outputFileName    quot MyApp   versionName    date    reversion  apk quot

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EDITED to work with Android Studio 3 0 and Gradle 4   I was looking for a more complex apk filename renaming option and I wrote this solution that renames the apk with the following data    flavor build type version date   You would get an apk like this  myProject dev debug 1 3 6 131016 1047 apk   You can find the whole answer here  Hope it helps   In the build gradle   android                 buildTypes           release               minifyEnabled true                                   debug               minifyEnabled false                      productFlavors           prod               applicationId  com feraguiba myproject              versionCode 3             versionName  1 2 0                    dev               applicationId  com feraguiba myproject dev              versionCode 15             versionName  1 3 6                       applicationVariants all   variant - gt          variant outputs all   output - gt              def project    myProject              def SEP                   def flavor   variant productFlavors 0  name             def buildType   variant variantData variantConfiguration buildType name             def version   variant versionName             def date   new Date                def formattedDate   date format  ddMMyy HHmm                def newApkName   project   SEP   flavor   SEP   buildType   SEP   version   SEP   formattedDate     apk               outputFileName   new File newApkName

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I think this will be helpful   buildTypes       release           shrinkResources true         minifyEnabled true         proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro          applicationVariants all   variant - gt              variant outputs each   output - gt                  project ext   appName    MyAppName                    def formattedDate   new Date   format  yyyyMMddHHmmss                   def newName   output outputFile name                 newName   newName replace  app-     project ext appName-                   newName   newName replace  -release    -release    formattedDate                  output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent  newName                                  productFlavors       flavor1             flavor2           proguardFile  flavor2-rules pro

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First rename your module from app to i e  SurveyApp  Second add this to your project top-level  root project  gradle  It s working with Gradle 3 0    rename apk for all sub projects subprojects       afterEvaluate   project - gt          if  project hasProperty  android                  android applicationVariants all   variant - gt                  variant outputs all                       outputFileName      project name -  variant name -  variant versionName  apk

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You might get the error with the latest android gradle plugin  3 0       Cannot set the value of read-only property  outputFile    According to the migration guide  we should use the following approach now   applicationVariants all   variant - gt      variant outputs all           outputFileName      applicationName    variant buildType name    defaultConfig versionName  apk            Note 2 main changes here    all is used now instead of each to iterate over the variant outputs  outputFileName property is used instead of mutating a file reference

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Add the following code in build gradle Module app   android                                        buildTypes           release                                                                          The is the code fot the template of release name               applicationVariants all   variant - gt                  variant outputs each   output - gt                      def formattedDate   new Date   format  yyyy-MM-dd HH-mm                       def newName    Your App Name     formattedDate                     output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent  newName                                                      And the release build name will be  Your App Name 2018-03-31 12-34

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add android applicationVariants all block like below in you app level gradle  buildTypes           release               minifyEnabled false             proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro              lintOptions                   disable  MissingTranslation                            signingConfig signingConfigs release             android applicationVariants all   variant - gt                  variant outputs all                       outputFileName      applicationId    versionCode    variant flavorName    variant buildType name  apk                                                    debug               applicationIdSuffix   debug              versionNameSuffix   debug                    available at 2019 03 25

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I modified  Abhishek Chaubey answer to change the whole file name   buildTypes       release           minifyEnabled false         proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro          applicationVariants all   variant - gt              variant outputs each   output - gt                  project ext   appName    MyAppName                    def formattedDate   new Date   format  yyyyMMddHHmmss                   def newName   output outputFile name                 newName   newName replace  app-     project ext appName-      MyAppName  - gt  I set my app variables in the root project                 newName   newName replace  -release    -release    formattedDate                    noinspection GroovyAssignabilityCheck                 output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent  newName                                    debug             This produces a file name like  MyAppName-release20150519121617 apk

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Here is a much shorter way   defaultConfig               applicationId  com blahblah example      versionCode 1     versionName  1 0      setProperty  archivesBaseName   applicationId    -v    versionCode         versionName              or so     archivesBaseName     applicationId-v versionCode  versionName       It gives you name com blahblah example-v1 1 0 -debug apk  in debug mode   Android Studio add versionNameSuffix by build type name by default  if you want override this  do next   buildTypes       debug                       versionNameSuffix  -MyNiceDebugModeName            release                         Output in debug mode  com blahblah example-v1 1 0 -MyNiceDebugModeName apk

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Yes we can change that but with some more attention  Now add this in your build gradle in your project while make sure you have checked the build variant of your project like release or Debug so here I have set my build variant as release but you may select as Debug as well       buildTypes               release                   minifyEnabled false                 proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile  proguard-android txt     proguard-rules pro                  signingConfig getSigningConfig                   applicationVariants all   variant - gt                      variant outputs each   output - gt                          def date   new Date                            def formattedDate   date format  yyyyMMddHHmmss                           output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent                                  output outputFile name replace  quot -release quot    quot - quot    formattedDate        for Debug use output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent                                    output outputFile name replace  quot -debug quot    quot - quot    formattedDate                                                                                              You may Do it With different Approach Like this   defaultConfig           applicationId  quot com myapp status quot          minSdkVersion 16         targetSdkVersion 23         versionCode 1         versionName  quot 1 0 quot          setProperty  quot archivesBaseName quot    quot COMU- versionName quot          Using Set property method in build gradle and Don t forget to sync the gradle before running the projects Hope It will solve your problem     A New approach to handle this added recently by google update You may now rename your build according to flavor or Variant output   Below source is from developer android documentation For more details follow the above documentation link Using the Variant API to manipulate variant outputs is broken with the new plugin  It still works for simple tasks  such as changing the APK name during build time  as shown below      If you use each   to iterate through the variant objects     you need to start using all    That s because each   iterates    through only the objects that already exist during configuration time       but those object don t exist at configuration time with the new model     However  all   adapts to the new model by picking up object as they are    added during execution  android applicationVariants all   variant - gt      variant outputs all           outputFileName    quot   variant name -  variant versionName  apk quot            Renaming  aab bundle This is nicely answered by David Medenjak  tasks whenTaskAdded   task - gt      if  task name startsWith  quot bundle quot              def renameTaskName    quot rename  task name capitalize   Aab quot          def flavor   task name substring  quot bundle quot  length    uncapitalize           tasks create renameTaskName  Copy                def path    quot   buildDir  outputs bundle   flavor   quot              from path              include  quot app aab quot              destinationDir file  quot   buildDir  outputs renamedBundle  quot               rename  quot app aab quot    quot   flavor  aab quot                     task finalizedBy renameTaskName           credit to David Medenjak for this block of code     Is there need of above code  What I have observed in the latest version of the android studio 3 3 1 The rename of  aab bundle is done by the previous code there don t require any task rename at all  Hope it will help you guys

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My solution may also be of help to someone   Tested and Works on IntelliJ 2017 3 2 with Gradle 4 4  Scenario   I have 2 flavours in my application  and so I wanted each release to be named appropriately according to each flavor   The code below will be placed into your module gradle build file found in    app-root  app build gradle  Gradle code to be added to android    block   android                   defaultConfig           versionCode 10         versionName  1 2 3 build5             buildTypes                           release                                   applicationVariants all                    variant outputs each   output - gt                      output outputFile   new File output outputFile parent  output outputFile name replace output outputFile name  variant flavorName    -    defaultConfig versionName     v    defaultConfig versionCode     apk                                                          productFlavors           myspicyflavor               applicationIdSuffix   MySpicyFlavor              signingConfig signingConfigs debug                    mystandardflavor               applicationIdSuffix   MyStandardFlavor              signingConfig signingConfigs config                     The above provides the following APKs found in  app-root  app    myspicyflavor-release-1 2 3 build5 v10 apk mystandardflavor-release-1 2 3 build5 v10 apk   Hope it can be of use to someone    For more info  see other answers mentioned in the question

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Not renaming it  but perhaps generating the name correctly in the first place would help   Change apk name with Gradle

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I wrote more universal solution based on  Fer answer   It also should work with flavor and build type based configuration of applicationId  versionName  versionCode   In the build gradle   android               applicationVariants all   variant - gt          variant outputs each   output - gt              def appId   variant applicationId             def versionName   variant versionName             def versionCode   variant versionCode             def flavorName   variant flavorName    e  g  free             def buildType   variant buildType    e  g  debug             def variantName   variant name    e  g  freeDebug              def apkName   appId         variantName         versionName         versionCode     apk               output outputFile   new File output outputFile parentFile  apkName                      Example apk name  com example app freeDebug 1 0 1 apk  For more information about variant variable see ApkVariant and BaseVariant interfaces definition

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