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Nxt3
Nxt3

Reputation: 2071

Managing multiple similar projects

I'm using Android Studio to handle compiling/building my EvolveSMS themes. However, I've recently started making minor changes to a theme, and I want a way to keep it under the same project, but still have access to build the standard theme.

If that's not clear, let me give an example.

I have Theme A. I change the color of something in Theme A. It's a minor change, but I want to keep versions of both A and newly created B so I can build both of them. However, I don't want to create an entirely new project for B, because it's such a minor change.

Is there anyway to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 69

Answers (1)

user1974640
user1974640

Reputation:

You need the Gradle feature named "flavours". They allow you to overlay code and properties on a "base".

android {
    ...

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 8
        versionCode 10
    }

    productFlavors {
        flavor1 {
            packageName "com.example.flavor1"
            versionCode 20
        }

        flavor2 {
            packageName "com.example.flavor2"
            minSdkVersion 14
        }
    }
}

The above code sample (build.gradle) would create two flavours.

flavor1

minSdkVersion 8
packageName "com.example.flavor1"
versionCode 20

and

android.sourceSets.flavor1
android.sourceSets.flavor1Release
android.sourceSets.flavor1Debug
android.sourceSets.androidTestFlavor1

and

flavor1Compile
flavor1Test

flavor2

versionCode 10
packageName "com.example.flavor2"
minSdkVersion 14

and etc…

Source sets

android.sourceSets defines source sets (who'da thunk it?)

android.sourceSets.main     →  src/main
android.sourceSets.flavor1  →  src/flavor1

Dependencies

Let us say that one theme has dependencies on a library…

dependencies {
    flavor1Compile "..."
}

See the official Android Studio guide here:
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Product-flavors.

See the official Gradle guide here: http://www.gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/nativeBinaries.html#flavors

Upvotes: 1

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