What s the best way to create a Desktop Compose application kotlinlang #compose-desktop

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?

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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!

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xxfast

06/06/2021, 4:37 AM

where do you set this property?

gradle.properties

spierce7

06/06/2021, 4:42 AM

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

06/06/2021, 4:46 AM

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

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