Hi folks! I’m a product manager for the Kotlin team, and I have two quick questions for Android deve...

# gradle

[akapanina]

Hi folks! I’m a product manager for the Kotlin team, and I have two quick questions for Android developers.
Question 1: When you’re configuring build types, what exactly is different between them in your projects?
1️⃣ Compilation settings
2️⃣ Packaging/distribution configuration
3️⃣ Sources with functionality
4️⃣ Test sources
5️⃣ Resources

[Carter]

Since my Android application is multi-process, there is a special singleProcess build type that gets used for A. Running automated tests and B. Running a special single-process build of the app for troubleshooting (since breakpoints etc across multiple processes are very difficult).

This is probably rare, but worth mentioning as a valid use case.

[ephemient]

we've also got some extra build types to work around deficiencies in other gradle plugins we use (unable to publish the same build type to multiple different downstreams, it's a hack but it works)