Android Studio: Switching a URL depending on buildtype? (used for testing in debug /release)

Question

I have been reading something about variants and buildtypes and I don\'t know if I am understanding it right but I would like to store a URL for locahost (testing) and one for p

Answer 1

   buildTypes {
    release {
        runProguard false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"url1"'
        debuggable false

    }

   debug {
        runProguard false
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"url2"'
        debuggable true

 }

This you need to do in the gradle and to make run two applications(release and debug) in a same phone just add

applicationIdSuffix ".debug"

in debug portion. As the package name will be different. This worked for me.