Hi everyone, what is the easiest way to distinguish between different Android flavours in a multipla...

# android

[Márton Matusek]

Hi everyone,
what is the easiest way to distinguish between different Android flavours in a multiplatform project? I would like to have a Huawei and a Google target. Thanks

[Frank Bouwens]

Not sure if this will help in your situation, but here’s something that might work;

In your build.gradle, add product flavors:
And let the different flavors add different values for a BuildConfigField.

flavorDimensions.add("tier")
productFlavors {
  
  create(name= "Huawei") {
    dimension="tier"
    buildConfigField(type="String", name="APP_FLAVOR", value="Huawei")
  }

  create(name= "Google") {
    dimension="tier"
    buildConfigField(type="String", name="APP_FLAVOR", value="Google")
  }
}

Then at runtime, you could use the BuildConfig, to see which flavor is build/running; Like so: BuildConfig.APP_FLAVOR , which will contain a different String depending on the Flavor.

[Chrimaeon]

Build flavors are a Android Gradle plugin concept, you‘ll not be able to retrieve this information in a common multiplatform module for example. You can create a custom configuration in the shared module with your own „buildconfig“ class.

[Anum Amin]

Since product flavors are android only concept, another possibility would be to declare an interface in commonMain. It will be implemented by android and provided via DI