Android Studio | Dependency management

Question

Can anyone suggest how we can add a dependency during build in android gradle based on some state like:

dependencies{
       if(someCondition){
           // add dependency
       } 
   }

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

I found a solution for this:

Step1: Declare boolean variablein gradle at the root level.

like: def someDependencyEnabled = true //This could be dynamically set.

Step 2: Using this variable boolean, we can apply the check as:

if(someDependencyEnabled){
    //Add some dependency
}
else
{
    //Add some other dependency
}

Step 3: Define different source settings for different situations:

android.sourceSets {
        main {
            java.srcDirs = ['src/main/java', someDependencyEnabled ? 'src/dependency_enabled_src' : 'src/dependency_disabled_src']
        }

}

where: 'src / main / java' : this is a generic src file that contains generic code.

'src/dependency_enabled_src': , , . 'src/main/java'.

'src/dependency_disabled_src': , , .

, (dependency_enabled dependency_disabled src) dependency_enabled_src dependency_disabled_src.