ProductFlavor

interface ProductFlavor : Named, BaseFlavor, ExtensionAware

Known direct subclasses
ApplicationProductFlavor

Encapsulates all product flavors properties for application projects.

DynamicFeatureProductFlavor

Encapsulates all product flavors properties for dynamic feature projects.

LibraryProductFlavor

Encapsulates all product flavors properties for library projects.

TestProductFlavor

Encapsulates all product flavors properties for test projects.


Encapsulates all product flavors properties for this project.

Product flavors represent different versions of your project that you expect to co-exist on a single device, the Google Play store, or repository. For example, you can configure 'demo' and 'full' product flavors for your app, and each of those flavors can specify different features, device requirements, resources, and application ID's--while sharing common source code and resources. So, product flavors allow you to output different versions of your project by simply changing only the components and settings that are different between them.

Configuring product flavors is similar to configuring build types: add them to the productFlavors block of your project's build.gradle file and configure the settings you want.

Product flavors support the same properties as the DefaultConfig block—this is because defaultConfig defines a ProductFlavor object that the plugin uses as the base configuration for all other flavors. Each flavor you configure can then override any of the default values in defaultConfig, such as the applicationId.

When using Android plugin 3.0.0 and higher, each flavor must belong to a dimension.

When you configure product flavors, the Android plugin automatically combines them with your BuildType configurations to create build variants. If the plugin creates certain build variants that you don't want, you can filter variants using android.variantFilter.

Summary

Public functions

Void?
setDimension(dimension: String?)

This function is deprecated. Replaced with the dimension property

Unit
setMatchingFallbacks(vararg fallbacks: String)

This function is deprecated. Replaced with property matchingFallbacks

Unit

This function is deprecated. Replaced with property matchingFallbacks

Public properties

String?

Specifies the flavor dimension that this product flavor belongs to.

MutableList<String>

Specifies a sorted list of product flavors that the plugin should try to use when a direct variant match with a local module dependency is not possible.

Inherited functions

From class com.android.build.api.dsl.BaseFlavor
Unit

Copies all properties from the given flavor.

Unit
minSdkVersion(minSdkVersion: Int)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by minSdk property

Unit
minSdkVersion(minSdkVersion: String?)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by minSdkPreview property

Unit
missingDimensionStrategy(dimension: String, requestedValue: String)

Specifies a flavor that the plugin should try to use from a given dimension in a dependency.

Unit
missingDimensionStrategy(
    dimension: String,
    requestedValues: List<String>
)

Specifies a sorted list of flavors that the plugin should try to use from a given dimension in a dependency.

Unit
missingDimensionStrategy(
    dimension: String,
    vararg requestedValues: String
)

Specifies a sorted list of flavors that the plugin should try to use from a given dimension in a dependency.

Unit
resConfig(config: String)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by resourceConfigurations field

Unit

This function is deprecated. Replaced by resourceConfigurations field

Unit
resConfigs(vararg config: String)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by resourceConfigurations field

Unit
setMinSdkVersion(minSdkVersion: Int)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by minSdk property

Unit
setMinSdkVersion(minSdkVersion: String?)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by minSdkPreview property

Any?
setTestFunctionalTest(testFunctionalTest: Boolean)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by testFunctionalTest property

Any?
setTestHandleProfiling(testHandleProfiling: Boolean)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by testFunctionalTest property

Any?
setTestInstrumentationRunnerArguments(
    testInstrumentationRunnerArguments: MutableMap<StringString>
)

This function is deprecated. Replaced by testInstrumentationRunnerArguments property

Unit

This function is deprecated. Replaced by testInstrumentationRunnerArguments property

Unit

This function is deprecated. Replaced by testInstrumentationRunnerArguments property

Unit

Configures VectorDrawables.

From class org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionAware
From class org.gradle.api.Named
From class com.android.build.api.dsl.VariantDimension
Unit
addManifestPlaceholders(manifestPlaceholders: Map<StringAny>)

Adds manifest placeholders.

Unit
buildConfigField(type: String, name: String, value: String)

Adds a new field to the generated BuildConfig class.

@Incubating Unit

Encapsulates per-variant CMake and ndk-build configurations for your external native build.

Unit

Options for configuring Java compilation.

Unit

Encapsulates per-variant configurations for the NDK, such as ABI filters.

@Incubating Unit
Any
proguardFile(proguardFile: Any)

Adds a new ProGuard configuration file.

Any
proguardFiles(vararg files: Any)

Adds new ProGuard configuration files.

Unit
resValue(type: String, name: String, value: String)

Adds a new generated resource.

Void?
setManifestPlaceholders(manifestPlaceholders: Map<StringAny>)

This function is deprecated. Use manifestPlaceholders property instead

Any
setProguardFiles(proguardFileIterable: Iterable<*>)

Replaces the ProGuard configuration files.

Unit

Configure the shader compiler options.

Any
testProguardFile(proguardFile: Any)

Adds a proguard rule file to be used when processing test code.

Any
testProguardFiles(vararg proguardFiles: Any)

Adds proguard rule files to be used when processing test code.

Inherited properties

From class com.android.build.api.dsl.BaseFlavor
Int?

The minimum SDK version.

String?

The minimum SDK version.

Boolean?

Whether the renderscript code should be compiled to generate C/C++ bindings.

Boolean?

Whether the renderscript BLAS support lib should be used to make it compatible with older versions of Android.

Boolean?

Whether the renderscript code should be compiled in support mode to make it compatible with older versions of Android.

Int?

The renderscript target api, or null if not specified.

MutableSet<String>

Specifies a list of alternative resources to keep.

String?

Test application ID.

Boolean?

See instrumentation.

Boolean?

See instrumentation.

String?

Test instrumentation runner class name.

MutableMap<StringString>

Test instrumentation runner custom arguments.

VectorDrawables

Options to configure the build-time support for vector drawables.

Boolean?

Whether to enable unbundling mode for embedded wear app.

From class com.android.build.api.dsl.VariantDimension
ExternalNativeBuildFlags

Encapsulates per-variant CMake and ndk-build configurations for your external native build.

JavaCompileOptions

Options for configuring Java compilation.

MutableMap<StringAny>

The manifest placeholders.

File?

This property is deprecated. This property is deprecated.

File?

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

Ndk

Encapsulates per-variant configurations for the NDK, such as ABI filters.

Optimization
MutableList<File>

Specifies the ProGuard configuration files that the plugin should use.

Shaders

Options for configuring the shader compiler.

MutableList<File>

The collection of proguard rule files to be used when processing test code.

Public functions

setDimension

fun setDimension(dimension: String?): Void?

setMatchingFallbacks

fun setMatchingFallbacks(vararg fallbacks: String): Unit

setMatchingFallbacks

fun setMatchingFallbacks(fallbacks: List<String>): Unit

Public properties

dimension

var dimensionString?

Specifies the flavor dimension that this product flavor belongs to.

When configuring product flavors with Android plugin 3.0.0 and higher, you must specify at least one flavor dimension, using the flavorDimensions property, and then assign each flavor to a dimension. Otherwise, you will get the following build error:

Error:All flavors must now belong to a named flavor dimension.
The flavor 'flavor_name' is not assigned to a flavor dimension.

By default, when you specify only one dimension, all flavors you configure automatically belong to that dimension. If you specify more than one dimension, you need to manually assign each flavor to a dimension, as shown in the sample below:

android {
...
// Specifies the flavor dimensions you want to use. The order in which you
// list each dimension determines its priority, from highest to lowest,
// when Gradle merges variant sources and configurations. You must assign
// each product flavor you configure to one of the flavor dimensions.
flavorDimensions 'api', 'version'

productFlavors {
demo {
// Assigns this product flavor to the 'version' flavor dimension.
dimension 'version'
...
}

full {
dimension 'version'
...
}

minApi24 {
// Assigns this flavor to the 'api' dimension.
dimension 'api'
minSdkVersion '24'
versionNameSuffix "-minApi24"
...
}

minApi21 {
dimension "api"
minSdkVersion '21'
versionNameSuffix "-minApi21"
...
}
}
}

To learn more about configuring flavor dimensions, read Combine multiple flavors.

matchingFallbacks

val matchingFallbacksMutableList<String>

Specifies a sorted list of product flavors that the plugin should try to use when a direct variant match with a local module dependency is not possible.

Android plugin 3.0.0 and higher try to match each variant of your module with the same one from its dependencies. For example, when you build a "freeDebug" version of your app, the plugin tries to match it with "freeDebug" versions of the local library modules the app depends on.

However, there may be situations in which, for a given flavor dimension that exists in both the app and its library dependencies, your app includes flavors that a dependency does not. For example, consider if both your app and its library dependencies include a "tier" flavor dimension. However, the "tier" dimension in the app includes "free" and "paid" flavors, but one of its dependencies includes only "demo" and "paid" flavors for the same dimension. When the plugin tries to build the "free" version of your app, it won't know which version of the dependency to use, and you'll see an error message similar to the following:

Error:Failed to resolve: Could not resolve project :mylibrary.
Required by:
project :app

In this situation, you should use matchingFallbacks to specify alternative matches for the app's "free" product flavor, as shown below:

// In the app's build.gradle file.
android {
flavorDimensions 'tier'
productFlavors {
paid {
dimension 'tier'
// Because the dependency already includes a "paid" flavor in its
// "tier" dimension, you don't need to provide a list of fallbacks
// for the "paid" flavor.
}
free {
dimension 'tier'
// Specifies a sorted list of fallback flavors that the plugin
// should try to use when a dependency's matching dimension does
// not include a "free" flavor. You may specify as many
// fallbacks as you like, and the plugin selects the first flavor
// that's available in the dependency's "tier" dimension.
matchingFallbacks = ['demo', 'trial']
}
}
}

Note that, for a given flavor dimension that exists in both the app and its library dependencies, there is no issue when a library includes a product flavor that your app does not. That's because the plugin simply never requests that flavor from the dependency.

If instead you are trying to resolve an issue in which a library dependency includes a flavor dimension that your app does not, use BaseFlavor.missingDimensionStrategy.