Sense 'dev mode' possible?

[Maneesh Godbole]

I am working on an Android app which needs to connect to a remote server for some data.
During development, I connect a real device via USB to test/run the app. Since the server side too is being simultaneously developed, I also run the server in my local environment for dev testing.

The server URL and other parameters have been defined as constants. I am wondering if there is some mechanism which will automatically if the app code being run is in dev mode, i.e. device is connected to laptop via USB, or any other mechanism, so I can achieve the following

if (isDevMode)
    pickAndUseTheDevParams();
else
    pickAndUseProductionParams();

GWT offers a very convenient GWT#isProdMode(). Considering both Android and GWT frameworks, I was wondering if there is something similar available in Android

[Tim Moores]

The approach I use is

isDebuggable = (0 != (getApplicationInfo().flags &= ApplicationInfo.FLAG_DEBUGGABLE)

You might also want to use dev params when running in the emulator:

isEmulator = Build.FINGERPRINT.startsWith("generic")

A more elegant solution would be to keep all those parameters in separate properties files that would live in src/debug/res/values and src/release/res/values, respectively. Then Gradle does the work for you.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Thanks Tim. I will try it out.