Build Configurations: types, variants and flavors.

A talk focusing on app build configurations, how to come up with different build variants and why we need them.

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1. Build Configurations: Types, Variants and Flavors • Theophilus Kibet • Android @Kyosk
2. Why? - Different development cycles - debug, uat, prod - Different app versions - themes, icons
3. cont: • Mambo ni mengi,........
4. Build Types: ➔ Properties for building and packaging an app • debug - enable debug options • release - shrink, obfuscate and sign app ❖ uat - base url
5. cont:
6. cont: • debuggable - true/false • applicationIdSuffix - “.uat” • versionNameSuffix - “-uat” • signingConfig • minifyEnabled - true/false • buildConfig
7. Product Flavors: ➔ Represents different versions of the app ➔ Can be customized to use different code and resources while sharing common parts
9. cont:
10. cont: • minSdk • targetSdk • versionCode • versionName • applicationId • applicationIdSuffix • buildConfig
11. BuildConfig: Class generated by gradle during build time, represents information about the current build.
12. cont:
13. Build Variants: Cross product of a build type and product flavor. NB: Not configured directly but made automatically by gradle.
14. Demo
15. Questions?
16. Thank You! Resources: • https://github.com/kibettheophilus/Android254demo • https://developer.android.com/studio/build twitter: @_kibetheophilus