If I'm in an android project which has one android...

# random

[Colton Idle]

If I'm in an android project which has one android app module + android library module in it (that app depends on)

If I run ./gradlew app:assembleRelease, will that give me a release build of the library too?

[Jacob Ras]

Yes. You can verify this by running the command with --dry-run, it will show that it calls release tasks on the library (like compileReleaseKotlinAndroid and others).

[Colton Idle]

thanks! lemme give that a shot. i know technically in AS in the build variant panel you can technically have an app in release and lib in debug, and so i wasn't sure if that also somehow affected things.

[Colton Idle]

yep. that did the trick. awesome. thank you! TIL

[trevjones]

another cool fairly recent thing is you can also publish multiple variants so even when pulling from maven you can get the same treatment.

publishing {
    multipleVariants {
        allVariants()
        withSourcesJar()
    }
}

Personally I prefer that since it makes consuming from maven basically 1:1 behavior with depending on a project in the same build.

For quite a while the IDE wouldn't handle source loading correctly when consuming multiple variants but its fine now.