Configuration management for mobile apps
Manage configuration settings and variables for different environments to ensure consistency and avoid manual errors with the following steps:
- Identify the configuration settings and variables your mobile app requires. These can include API endpoints, database connection strings, feature flags, logging levels, credentials, and any other values that may vary across environments.
- Separate the configuration settings from your application code. Hardcoding configuration values directly into the code can make it challenging to update them when moving between environments. Instead, abstract the configuration values into separate configuration files or externalize them through environment variables.
- Use configuration files specific to each environment. For example, you can have separate configuration files for development, testing, staging, and production environments. These files can be JSON, XML, YAML, or properties files. Each file...