Hey, Hope you guys are doing well, I just want to know how can I define an environment variable in the KMM project. I’m an Android Developer so for reference it is similar to

BuildConfig.java

file. But for a good reason I can’t access this file in the project. Could you please help me with this? Thank you!

Check

yshrsmz/BuildKonfig

on GitHub , see if good enough

I have something similar. I am using a gradle Pluging “com.github.gmazzo.buildconfig” to create class with consts f.e. build.gradle.kts

buildConfig {
  val prefix = "CONST_CONFIG_";
  useKotlinOutput { topLevelConstants = true }
  useKotlinOutput { internalVisibility = false }
  className("ConstConfig")
  packageName("de.masterthesis.shared")
  com.android.build.gradle.internal.cxx.configure.gradleLocalProperties(projectDir).filterKeys {
    it.toString().contains(prefix)
  }.map {
    buildConfigField("String", it.key.toString().replace(prefix, ""), it.value.toString())
  }
}

local.properties

CONST_CONFIG_DBFILE="task.db"
CONST_CONFIG_NINJAS_API_KEY="xxxx"

after build you can use “ConstConfig.DBFILE”

That's actually a nice way. I was using the

buildKonfig

library but it still lacks the support of accessing the variables defined in

gradle.properties

or maybe I didn't explore it enough. I'll try that. PS: I'm the same person.

gradle.properties works, is not related to buildkonfig. Not sure if I understand your problem

In Android, you can put sensitive information such as API keys and secrets in the

gradle.properties

file as it's not included in the build and the variables are accessible in the

build.gradle

file to utilise them in the

buildConfigField()

method. But in KMM, I couldn't access those variables in the method. For example: gradle.properties:

apiKey="api_key_value"

build.gradle

...
buildConfigField("String", "SOME_API_KEY", apiKey)
...

It works for me, I use it in commonMain. Like I said Buildkonfig just copy that value into the config class. The fact that your value is not accessible in build.gradle is a different problem.