Capacitor Environment Variables - Similar to Android Default Config / Flavours

[tonyawad88]

Hello,

I have a question related to Capacitor config file capacitor.config.json, I was wondering if there's a way to override any of these variables at build time?

Our use case, we have 2 environments that our mobile app runs in and each environment has its own build configs / properties that needs to get seet.

We use angular environment.ts to manage the angular side of variables per environment. We also use Android build types in the build.gradle file to override applicationId (com.x.y.staging, etc) and to override version name (v1.x.x).

However, the application name "My App" is set within the capacitor.config.json and we would like to have AppName + suffix from Capacitor (ex: appName: "My App - Staging" would be in capacitor.staging.config.json). Is this something that is on the roadmap or open to consideration?

Thank you!

[aparajita]

Currently there is no simple way. You would have to rewrite the file in your build script. Capacitor 3.0 will be switching to a JS/TS config file, so it can be changed dynamically.