Android Studio: Check for a custom build type

Question

I am trying to have a piece of code detect a BuildType, but I am a bit stuck. Whenever I type the code in for the IF statement, it says

Incompatible types. Required: Boolean. Found: java.lang.String

When I would have thought that it would have to be a string if there was .toString() at the end.

My code for detecting it is:

String buildtype = BuildConfig.BUILD_TYPE.toString(); if (buildtype = "admin") {     //Do some admin stuff here. } 

I have set up the admin BuildType in my build.gradle file like this:

admin {         debuggable true         jniDebuggable false         renderscriptDebuggable false         minifyEnabled false         zipAlignEnabled true     } 

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

What you can use in case you want to go for a custom build type and not a product flavor is:

if (BuildConfig.BUILD_TYPE.contentEquals("admin")) {    // Do things related to the admin build type. } 

Answer 2

You can look at your BuildConfig file. It is the file you will get after creating a build.

For your question. I think you should use BuildConfig.FLAVOR instead of BuildConfig.BUILD_TYPE. And remember their type are String, so don't need to convert to String with .toString()

Lastly, you should use string compare method. So, your code should be

if (BuildConfig.FLAVOR.contentEquals("admin")) {     //Do some admin stuff here. }