I’m going to use the file management and JSON serialization features in this example.

This is good for us, because it means we have a lot of language features at our disposal. The language underlying gradle, which is used for builds by Android Studio, is Groovy. In this example, I’m going to read in a JSON file from outside the Android Studio area, and write a JSON file to res/raw. An even better solution would be to pull the information I need and write out the correct JSON format for Android Studio. However, a better solution would be to ensure the file exists and to copy it to the right place. Now, the question becomes “how do I get that infrastructure.json file into my front end code?”Ī simple version of this would be to ensure I copy the file every single time I update it. I’ve got my backend configuration written using Terraform, and it outputs a file called infrastructure.json that describes the backend in a JSON format.

I’m currently writing a cloud-native app with an Android (and iOS) front end.

Hooking the prebuild step into the configuration.

Adding a pre-build step to Android Studio builds

Android studio gradle settings