Version Control of Android Studio Project via SVN

In this tutorial, You'll learn how to add version control to our Android-based applications using Apache's open source SVN.Here i am using tortoise svn as client you can download the software Here.

Please make sure that you choose the right installer for your PC, otherwise the setup will fail.

About TortoiseSVN

TortoiseSVN is an Apache™ Subversion (SVN)® client, implemented as a Windows shell extension. It's intuitive and easy to use, since it doesn't require the Subversion command line client to run. And it is free to use, even in a commercial environment. Simply the coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control!

Version control basics:

Android Studio supports a variety of version control systems (VCSs), including Git, GitHub, CVS, Mercurial, Subversion, and Google Cloud Source Repositories.

After importing your app into Android Studio, use the Android Studio VCS menu options to enable VCS support for the desired system, create a repository, import the new files into version control, and perform other version control operations.

To enable VCS support, follow these steps:

1. From the Android Studio VCS menu, select Enable Version Control Integration.
2. From the menu, select a VCS to associate with the project root.
3. Click OK.

The VCS menu now displays a number of version control options based on the system you selected.

The project structure looks like this :

Now that the project has been created, let us import it into SVN. The steps for importing are:

1. Enable Version Control: Go to VCS menu → Enable Version Control Integration
2. In the popup, select Subversion from the dropdown list.
3. Add Your SVN Repository URL Go to VCS menu → Checkout from Version Control → SubversionEnter the Repository URL in the popup. This URL is the link to the SVN cloud where your repository will be stored.After adding the URL, select the Checkout button. You will be asked to select the checkout directory (in our case it will be:...\AndroidStudioProjects\HelloWorldProject).
4. After the above step is completed, another popup is shown to select the checkout options like below:Here select the destination and go with the defaults. Now you will be required to enter the authentication credentials.
5. Now that the project has been set up, it is time to add the files and folders to SVN. NOTE: Only those files or folders must be added to SVN that are project relevant, i.e, all the files or folders that can be generated by the IDE at the time of project initialization must be ignored from adding to SVN. In this case, files and folders that must be added to SVN are: Within the "HelloWorldProject" folder:
   1. "gradle" folder
   2. "build.gradle" file
   3. "gradlew" and "gradlew.bat" files
   4. "settings.gradle" file
   5. "gradle.properties" file
   6. Within "app" folder
      • "libs" folder
      • "src" folder
      • "build.gradle" file
      • "proguard-rules.pro" file

Note: Any other files such as, "google-services.json", "lint", etc., that act as an integral part of the source code of the project must be added to SVN.

Note: For any other module (any library SDK, like Facebook SDK), the same steps used in the "app" folder must be followed.  

• The list of files and folders that must be ignored are:
  • Within "app" folder :
    •  "build" folder
    • ".gradle" folder".idea" folder
    • ".svn" (hidden) folder
    • "build" folder
    • "local.properties" file
    • "App_Name.iml" file
    •  "app.iml" file NOTE : "app" folder can be named something else as well (for example it can be named "xyz". In that case, there will be "xyz.iml" which need not be committed).
• As you can see in the above list (Ignore list), all the files or folders are generated by the IDE, (i.e., Android Studio). Hence whenever the SVN project is downloaded and run on any other system (within Android Studio), the files or folders ignored will be generated again as per that system's properties.
• In order to always ignore these files from SVN, a simple way is to add them to the Ignore list.
• Now commit those previously added files to SVN. Go to VCS menu → Commit ChangesWhenever changes are made to the existing files in the project or new files are added, repeat the above-mentioned steps to add them to SVN.

The version control process via SVN is now complete!

For Manual Process :

1.Go to Project Folder--> Right click-->Select tortoise SVN---> Enter Chekout --Below screen will show :

After Pressing Ok the screen will be displayed as: Here Press the Checkout option Hence you done