ProjectWithFlavors

Here is everything you need to know about product flavors and real-time solutions.

Product flavors are nothing but preparing different dishes using the same core ingredients but adding minor flavor toppings to get a different taste. To better understand product flavors let us consider a example:

You ever seen Free and Pro versions of the same app in playstore, Pro version have all features of the free version, also with pro features.

Build Variants

Build Variants are formed by Build Types and Product Flavors.

According to the Google documentation, build variants are the result of Gradle using a specific set of rules to combine settings, code, and resources configured in your build types and product flavors.

Build Type applies different build and packaging settings. An example of build types are “Debug” and “Release”.

Product Flavors specify different features and device requirements, such as custom source code, resources, and minimum API levels.

Product Flavors

       productFlavors {
       
        def STRING = "String"
        def URL = "BASE_URL"
        
        food {
            dimension "product"
            applicationIdSuffix ".food"
            versionCode 1
            versionName "0.0.1"
//            archivesBaseName = "${applicationName}-v${versionCode}-${versionName}"
        }
        ecom {
            dimension "product"
            applicationIdSuffix ".ecom"
            versionCode 1
            versionName "0.0.1"
            archivesBaseName = "${applicationName}-v${versionCode}-${versionName}"
        }
        qa {
            dimension "server"
            applicationIdSuffix ".qa"
            //versionNameSuffix "-qa"
            buildConfigField "boolean", "IS_PROD", "false"
            buildConfigField STRING, URL, "${QA_URL}"
            buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"https://www.flickr.com/services/"'
        }
        uat {
            dimension "server"
            applicationIdSuffix ".uat"
            //versionNameSuffix "-uat"
            buildConfigField "boolean", "IS_PROD", "false"
            buildConfigField STRING, URL, "${UAT_URL}"
            buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"https://www.flickr.com/services/"'
        }
        prod {
            dimension "server"
            applicationIdSuffix ".prod"
            buildConfigField "boolean", "IS_PROD", "false"
            buildConfigField STRING, URL, "${UAT_URL}"
            buildConfigField "String", "BASE_URL", '"https://www.flickr.com/services/"'
        }
    }

In gradle.properties file

        # QA URL
        QA_URL="https://www.flickr.com/services/"

        # UAT URL
        UAT_URL="https://www.flickr.com/services/"

BuildConfig

Build the project and once done, select Build > Select Build Variant in the menu bar, and you will see the different Build Variants auto-generated when you added the Product flavors.

LICENSE

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                           Version 2.0, January 2004
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