Android - Manifest placeholders for different build types

Question

I am very hyped about the new possibility of manifest placeholders in Gradle + Android Build. I've found in the gradle documentation that I can specify my own placeholders like this:

productFlavors {
    free {
    }
    pro {
        manifestPlaceholders = [ activityLabel:"proName" ]
    }
}

But I would like to have one placeholder dependent on build type and not on product flavors. When I insert that placeholder specification into build type settings it takes no effect. Do you know how to achieve this? Because it seems to me stupid have three build types and three flavors associated with it. Thanks

Answer 1

This is my solution for different product flavours:

build.gradle:

productFlavors {
normal {
    applicationId "mobi.cwiklinski.urc"
    buildConfigField "String", "providerAuthority", "\"mobi.cwiklinski.urc.provider\""
    resValue "string", "authorities", "mobi.cwiklinski.urc.provider"
}
adfree {
    applicationId "mobi.cwiklinski.urc.adfree"
    buildConfigField "String", "providerAuthority", "\"mobi.cwiklinski.urc.adfree.provider\""
    resValue "string", "authorities", "mobi.cwiklinski.urc.adfree.provider"
}

}

AndroidManifest.xml

<provider
        android:name="mobi.cwiklinski.urc.provider.AppProvider"
        android:authorities="@string/authorities"
        android:exported="true"
        android:label="@string/app_name"
        android:syncable="true"
        android:writePermission="mobi.cwiklinski.urc.permission.USE_PROVIDER" />

And that's all - in different product flavours you will get different resource value.

Answer 2

Starting today with gradle plugin 0.13.0 is already working.