Setup an Android Environment— debug , staging and release.

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In this article we will see how to setup debug , staging and release environment in android development and will also see where we keep our secret keys (eg — Base Url) of each environment.

DEBUG (development env.)

This environment is used by us (developer) to develop and test the application.

STAGING (testing env.)

After development , we will give staging environment’s build to tester for the testing.

RELEASE (production env.)

This environment’s build will be deployed on the Play Store and available for users.

Before creating these environments we have to understand some technical terms →

Build Types

• debug , staging and release is your build types in android development.
• By default there will be two build types in android projects i,e, debug and release .
• by default debug env. is selected , It means we run the application in debug mode.

Flavours

• Through this flavours feature , we can create more than one version of any application.
• Suppose we want some…