Two apps, same functionality but different branding? (Product Flavors?)

I'm still trying to come up with a perfect solution.

The biggest issue is all the image assets (e.g. the tile icon, etc.). I haven't figured out a way to dynamically change the tile and store images or app package name. To overcome this I am using a mostly empty project that contains all that stuff and just calls a separate main project and passes along an object containing the other branding details (colour scheme, app name, etc.).

So my apps have a branded project and a main project. You can build the main project separately and add a reference to it to your main solution (which contains only the branded components and no actual code or pages).

In a sense the branded project serves as a 'head' to your app. It's essentially empty.

I have no experience with pre-build steps, but you should be able to swap out the tile images. I will look into that myself as it may be a more elegant solution than what I'm using.

You could set up conditionali compiling (you need to create different compile options like 'ReleaseBrandA', then in your code you can do this:

#if ReleaseBrandA

// brand A specific code

#endif

If you build your app with enough foresight you can probably avoid that by keeping any brand-specific code in the branded project.

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I'm a self-taught noob amateur. Please take this into account when responding to my posts or when taking advice from me.