Anyone know of any hook that automatically updates the build numbering when building? I’m keep forgetting to doing it manually (and it’s unnecessarily time-consuming) I’m not looking for a automatic version updater, as that would just cause problems, but a automatic build updater, would help when …

You could make a before_build hook to change your app version in config.xml or make it stick a build number in your html/js. There are several more hooks that you might want to use instead but you can write them all in nodejs. Checkout the docs on github for cordova cli hooks if you want more info. …

Yea, I have already implemented that article… it’s great. I wish there was a hook database where you could easily search for useful hooks. Googling for them is a pain! I will take another cack on using the replace_text hook.

Ok, I have a semi dirty version working based on the ‘replace text’ hook. I have made a gist of the hook. Right now it only suffixes the build number to the version number. I would like to in the future separate it out to a separate ‘build’ metadata, that will be read correctly by Hockeyapp.

Thanks for that. I think it might be nicer if you made it replace the build number in a config.js so you could access it while the app is running easily. Looks like all you have to do is change the file path and it should work. This seems easier then trying to make it a separate ‘build’ metadata. I …

You could definitely update a js file as well. All you need to do is add the path to the build files array, and include the ‘BUILDNR’ placeholder where you want the build number to be included. When working with version and build numbers, they are usually handled separately. One is used to track r…

[update] If you want to separate the build number from the version number, you can add the following to the tag in your config.xml: version="VERSIONNR" android-versionCode="BUILDNR" ios-CFBundleVersion="BUILDNR" so it looks something like this: <widget id="APPID" version="VERSIONNR" android-ver…

Thank you. I also found this to be very helpful.

I’ve just created my very first hook, which increments the build numbers directly in the project’s config.xml. Here’s a gist if anyone is interested. https://gist.github.com/ohh2ahh/f35ff6e0d9f8b4268cdb increment_build_number.js #!/usr/bin/env node // Save hook under `project-root/hooks/be…

Automatic build numbering

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