What’s the best way to create a Desktop Compose ap...

# compose-desktop

[spierce7]

What’s the best way to create a Desktop Compose application with the equivalent of Android Flavors? I’d like to have 2 variants of my application - Internal and Production, and I’d like to exclude certain code from being in the production variant, and enable certain testing functionality in my internal variant, like server selection, etc.

I tried using multiple jvm targets with the multiplatform plugin, and created a desktopMain source set, but I couldn’t use jvm dependencies in it (It was looked at / viewed as a common source-set I think). What else could I try?

[spierce7]

I just thought of dynamically adding sourcesets based on gradle build properties.

I’m pretty confident this will work, and it will also play nicely with the gradle application plugin.

kotlin {
    targets {
        jvm()
    }

    sourceSets {
        val commonMain by getting {
            if (project.hasProperty("buildProduction")) {
                kotlin.srcDir("src/production/kotlin")
            } else {
                kotlin.srcDir("src/internal/kotlin")
            }

I’m interested to know if anyone thinks of something better!

[xxfast]

where do you set this property? gradle.properties?

[spierce7]

You configure the property via -P for any gradle command. i.e. if I wanted to run in production, I’d just run

./gradlew :app:run -PbuildProduction

[xxfast]

cool - i guess this is not as convenient as AS built variants but should do in the interim till JB officially support built variants with MPP