BuildType

Application id suffix.

This is appended to the "base" application id when calculating the final application id for a variant.

ProGuard rule files to be included in the published AAR.

These proguard rule files will then be used by any application project that consumes the AAR (if ProGuard is enabled).

This allows AAR to specify shrinking or obfuscation exclude rules.

This is only valid for Library project. This is ignored in Application project.

Whether this build type should generate a debuggable apk.

Whether a linked Android Wear app should be embedded in variant using this build type.

Wear apps can be linked with the following code:

dependencies {
  freeWearApp project(:wear:free') // applies to variant using the free flavor
  wearApp project(':wear:base') // applies to all other variants
}

Options for configuration Java compilation.

Whether this build type is configured to generate an APK with debuggable native code.

The manifest placeholders.

See Manifest merger.

Whether Minify is enabled for this build type.

Whether Multi-Dex is enabled for this variant.

Text file that specifies additional classes that will be compiled into the main dex file.

Classes specified in the file are appended to the main dex classes computed using aapt.

If set, the file should contain one class per line, in the following format: com/example/MyClass.class

Text file with additional ProGuard rules to be used to determine which classes are compiled into the main dex file.

If set, rules from this file are used in combination with the default rules used by the build system.

Name of this build type.

Returns ProGuard configuration files to be used.

There are 2 default rules files

They are located in the SDK. Using getDefaultProguardFile(String filename) will return the full path to the files. They are identical except for enabling optimizations.

See similarly named methods to specify the files.

Whether to generate pseudo locale in the APK.

If enabled, 2 fake pseudo locales (en-XA and ar-XB) will be added to the APK to help test internationalization support in the app.

Whether the build type is configured to generate an apk with debuggable RenderScript code.

Optimization level to use by the renderscript compiler.

Whether shrinking of unused resources is enabled. Default is false;

The signing configuration.

Whether test coverage is enabled for this build type.

If enabled this uses Jacoco to capture coverage and creates a report in the build directory.

The version of Jacoco can be configured with:

android {
  jacoco {
    version = '0.6.2.201302030002'
  }
}

Whether the experimental Jack toolchain should be used.

Version name suffix.

This is appended to the "base" version name when calculating the final version name for a variant.

Whether zipalign is enabled for this build type.

Adds a new field to the generated BuildConfig class.

The field is generated as: <type> <name> = <value>;

This means each of these must have valid Java content. If the type is a String, then the value should include quotes.

Adds a proguard rule file to be included in the published AAR.

This proguard rule file will then be used by any application project that consume the AAR (if proguard is enabled).

This allows AAR to specify shrinking or obfuscation exclude rules.

This is only valid for Library project. This is ignored in Application project.

Adds proguard rule files to be included in the published AAR.

This proguard rule file will then be used by any application project that consume the AAR (if proguard is enabled).

This allows AAR to specify shrinking or obfuscation exclude rules.

This is only valid for Library project. This is ignored in Application project.

Configure native build options.

Copies all properties from the given build type.

It can be used like this:

android.buildTypes {
    customBuildType {
        initWith debug
            // customize...
        }
}

Adds a new ProGuard configuration file.

proguardFile getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt')

There are 2 default rules files

They are located in the SDK. Using getDefaultProguardFile(String filename) will return the full path to the files. They are identical except for enabling optimizations.

Adds new ProGuard configuration files.

There are 2 default rules files

They are located in the SDK. Using getDefaultProguardFile(String filename) will return the full path to the files. They are identical except for enabling optimizations.

Adds a new generated resource.

This is equivalent to specifying a resource in res/values.

See Resource Types.

Adds a new generated resource.

This is equivalent to specifying a resource in res/values.

See Resource Types.

Sets the ProGuard configuration files.

There are 2 default rules files

They are located in the SDK. Using getDefaultProguardFile(String filename) will return the full path to the files. They are identical except for enabling optimizations.