anyone have any good ideas for dealing w\ release VS debug builds in compose apps? when I produce th...

# compose-desktop

[Adam Brown]

anyone have any good ideas for dealing w\ release VS debug builds in compose apps? when I produce the release installers, i want to be able to detect that and do something different in my logic

[Dima Avdeev]

You may look at this Gradle plugin: https://github.com/yshrsmz/BuildKonfig
It adds BuildConfig like on Android. And you can pass different constants to it before the compilation process.

[Dima Avdeev]

Also, you can run a release type by default. And for a debug type, pass additional arguments to the gradle command line.

[Dima Avdeev]

./gradlew :run --args="my cmd args"

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
    for (arg in args) {
        println(arg) 
        // It will print:
        // "my"
        // "cmd"
        // "args"
    }
}

For example, real code:

val DEBUG_MODE = if (args.getOrNull(0) == "debug") {
    true
} else {
    false
}

./gradlew :run --args="debug"

[Dima Avdeev]

And configure run configuration in IDE like this:

[Adam Brown]

thanks for the reply!

[Adam Brown]

ya i was hoping to have it backed into the gradle script some how, so it wasn't something you had to remember to setup for new developers and what not

[Adam Brown]

I'm using that BuildKonfig for other things already, but not sure if I can change it only for the "packageRelease" tasks

[Dima Avdeev]

In BuildKonfig doc there are part with flavors:
https://github.com/yshrsmz/BuildKonfig#product-flavor

[Dima Avdeev]

From my perspective, better to simply use standard jvm args, like I described above with fun main(args)

[Dima Avdeev]

But surely you can choose the best that you want

[Adam Brown]

I hadn't seen the build flavor part of BuildKonfig before, might give that a try, thanks for your feedback!