Getting Jenkins to build different flavors of the same project

Question

I'm using Jenkins to build our companies Android application. In the gradle.build file, I have specified two separate types of build, debug, and production.

buildTypes {
    //TODO fix this so that signing works with release version
    debug {
        buildConfigField "boolean", "RELEASE", "false"
    }
    release {
        buildConfigField "boolean", "RELEASE", "true"
    }
}

How can I manually trigger Jenkins to build the release version?

Thanks, -Mark

Answer 1

Use a parameterized build - the parameter value will be available as an environment variable that you can test in your build file.