android modules and product falvors

[hsynkunduz]

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Which mobile framework are you using?

Android (Kotlin)

Steps to reproduce

tried to search for how to build selecting modules and product flavors on youtube channel, blog, docs, dicord. I could not find anything to show how to do it. Am I missing something somewhere? if there is doc about it how can I do it?

Expected results

finding sources which shows me how to implement android modules and product flavors on yaml file

Actual results

there is no information about how to do it

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[dam-ease]

Hello @hsynkunduz.
You can check out our sample projects here: https://docs.codemagic.io/yaml-quick-start/codemagic-sample-projects/, there is one for building with flavors but with flutter here: https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/codemagic-sample-projects/tree/main/flutter/flutter-flavors-demo-project that'd help a whole lot!
If you have specific questions or issues, kindly share here and I'd be glad to help out.

[hsynkunduz]

yes I saw those links, I also found blog posts and videos about flutter. But thats flutter flavors, its very different than android ones. Even if it's same still thats not including android modules. I have an android project which have two modules and they have two flavors each. With this I can create two apps and two versions for each of them. I'm trying to get builds I'm able to get from android studio.

[dam-ease]

Hello @hsynkunduz
I am currently working on generating a sample project and updating the docs to include building selected modules and product flavors in Android - #2784. I would like to keep you in the loop so you can as well try on your end.
Firstly, creating the flavors in the build.gradle.kts file using the code snippet below

Code Snippet (build.gradle.kts file)

android {
    ...
    defaultConfig {...}
    buildTypes {
        getByName("debug"){...}
        getByName("release"){...}
    }
    // Specifies one flavor dimension.
    [flavorDimensions](https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/current/com/android/build/api/dsl/ProductFlavor#dimension) += "version"
    productFlavors {
        create("demo") {
            // Assigns this product flavor to the "version" flavor dimension.
            // If you are using only one dimension, this property is optional,
            // and the plugin automatically assigns all the module's flavors to
            // that dimension.
            dimension = "version"
            applicationIdSuffix = ".demo"
            versionNameSuffix = "-demo"
        }
        create("full") {
            dimension = "version"
            applicationIdSuffix = ".full"
            versionNameSuffix = "-full"
        }
    }
}

with this, we'll have different build variants which can be used to run the app both locally and in codemagic yaml file. To build a specific flavor using the command line, we can use the following Gradle commands:

./gradlew demoRelease

and to build specific modules in a multi-module Android project, we can specify the module in the Gradle command:

./gradlew :moduleName:demoRelease

Such that to configure this in Codemagic using the YAML file, we can specify the flavor and module in the build script like this:

scripts:
  - name: Build APK with selected flavor
    script: |
      ./gradlew :moduleName:demoRelease

[hsynkunduz]

Actually I solved this with a little more digging to gradle and how to build android apps with command line. Your solution is very similar to mine. BTW if you are gonna make a doc about this I think you should add build types too. It is very similar so it would not increase your work a lot. I can help if you want. I am now able to build any module, product flavor and build type for android on codemagic.

[dam-ease]

Hello @hsynkunduz,
Thanks for your response!
Yes, definitely, I'd be glad to get your input. You can open a PR in the docs repo - https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/codemagic-docs or sample project repo - https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/codemagic-sample-projects/ in whichever capacity you'd like to help.

[hsynkunduz]

I never wrote a documentation like this. But I can add a sample project under android. I think a new android project would be better in here
https://github.com/codemagic-ci-cd/codemagic-sample-projects/tree/main/android

Because other android projects have different focus. So I don't want to mix them. What do you think?

[dam-ease]

Yes, adding it under android project is fine!

[1hsyn1]

Hi @dam-ease I'm hsynkunduz with another github account. I'm ready with sample project in codemagic-sample-projects but since I do not hold permissions I'm not able to push. What should I do.

[1hsyn1]

btw so sorry for the really late response