Has anyone managed to get a concept of build variants working within the shared code? Specifically ...

# multiplatform

[Sam]

Has anyone managed to get a concept of build variants working within the shared code?

Specifically my usecase is wanting to define instances of data classes populated with dummy data (for a mock variant of the app) in shared code, but I don't want those to be used in production.

Any ideas anyone? 🙏

[deviant]

maybe this could cover your use case
https://github.com/yshrsmz/BuildKonfig

[Sam]

Not really to be honest, unless I'm missunderstanding. I think that solves the problem of wanting configuration in one place , but doesn't solve the problem of wanting multiple source sets within the shared code

[leandro]

I don’t have a good solution other than providing the data from the leaf/app module. This way every other module isn’t aware of variants

[xxfast]

I created a you track issue to address lack of debug variants in common code, but that got immediately shot down

[Sam]

@xxfast Do you have a link to the issue? I'd be interested in the response

[xxfast]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-51253/Add-default-commonDebug-source-set

[xxfast]

I am moving this to 'Declined', not because the proposal is bad, but because we will not implement something like this in "the current multiplatform".

We're working together with Google to provide a better mpp+Android integration in the future. This implementation will have source sets completely re-designed and will hopefully satisfy your needs fully!

@Sebastian Sellmair [JB]

[xxfast]

my current workaround for this is to extract this to a standalone nested module and include that for android debug variant like

debugImplementation(project(":app:debug"))

[Sebastian Sellmair [JB]]

Just to get a better understanding,
why is the. androidDebug source set not an option for your use case?

[Sam]

Because the androidDebug source set cannot be accessed from iOS. @xxfast how do you use that module in your iOS / other platforms?

[xxfast]

that i'm yet to figure out 😅

[xxfast]

right now im consuming the debug library in my release build as well - which is generally no go

[Sam]

Ah fair enough, my current thinking is trying to do some kind of clever symlinking but it's probably asking for trouble