Auto-incrementing Build Numbers in Capacitor

Appflow provides an auto-incrementing environment variable (CI_BUILD_NUMBER) that can be used with Trapeze to increment build numbers for the native builds of Capacitor apps.

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An app demonstrating this feature can be found here.

To use this feature, first install @trapezedev/configure project into your app:

npm install @trapezedev/configure

Next, create a simple appflow.yml file with the following contents:

vars:
  CI_BUILD_NUMBER:
    default: 1

platforms:
  ios:
    buildNumber: $CI_BUILD_NUMBER
  android:
    versionCode: $CI_BUILD_NUMBER

Finally, add the appflow:build script to your npm scripts in package.json to run this configuration during an Appflow build:

  "scripts": {
    "appflow:build": "npx trapeze run appflow.yml -y && npm run build"
  },

Make sure to keep your build command as the second part of the appflow:build script to ensure your app web assets build properly.

Setting Initial Build Number

If you'd like to start incrementing at a certain number, use the following appflow:build command instead, substituting your initial build number for the number 1234. All subsequent build numbers will be added to this number:

  "scripts": {
    "appflow:build": "CI_BUILD_NUMBER=$(($CI_BUILD_NUMBER + 1234)) npx trapeze run appflow.yml -y && npm run build"
  },

Learn more

Trapeze has a number of additional features that may be useful in your build pipeline. Explore the ionic-team/trapeze repo to learn more.