Gradle: How to Build different flavours of different built types?

Question

Could someone tell me if it's possible to build only one of my different flavors through the command-line?

At the moment I haven't seen the way to execute, for example:

gradle buildDev  

when Dev is one of my different flavors. Indeed, I have to execute:

gradle build 

And all flavors are build.

I'd like to skip some flavors. is it possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

While there is no flavor-specific version of the build task, there are flavor-specific versions of the assemble and install tasks. assemble will create the APK; install will install it on devices/emulators.

For example, in this sample project, I define two product flavors (chocolate and vanilla) and three total build types (debug, release, and mezzanine).

Running gradle tasks shows, among others:

Build tasks ----------- assemble - Assembles all variants of all applications and secondary packages. assembleChocolate - Assembles all builds for flavor Chocolate assembleChocolateDebug - Assembles the Debug build for flavor Chocolate assembleChocolateDebugTest - Assembles the Test build for the ChocolateDebug build assembleChocolateMezzanine - Assembles the Mezzanine build for flavor Chocolate assembleChocolateRelease - Assembles the Release build for flavor Chocolate assembleDebug - Assembles all Debug builds assembleMezzanine - Assembles all Mezzanine builds assembleRelease - Assembles all Release builds assembleTest - Assembles all the Test applications assembleVanilla - Assembles all builds for flavor Vanilla assembleVanillaDebug - Assembles the Debug build for flavor Vanilla assembleVanillaDebugTest - Assembles the Test build for the VanillaDebug build assembleVanillaMezzanine - Assembles the Mezzanine build for flavor Vanilla assembleVanillaRelease - Assembles the Release build for flavor Vanilla  Install tasks ------------- installChocolateDebug - Installs the Debug build for flavor Chocolate installChocolateDebugTest - Installs the Test build for the ChocolateDebug build installChocolateMezzanine - Installs the Mezzanine build for flavor Chocolate installChocolateRelease - Installs the Release build for flavor Chocolate installVanillaDebug - Installs the Debug build for flavor Vanilla installVanillaDebugTest - Installs the Test build for the VanillaDebug build installVanillaMezzanine - Installs the Mezzanine build for flavor Vanilla installVanillaRelease - Installs the Release build for flavor Vanilla uninstallAll - Uninstall all applications. uninstallChocolateDebug - Uninstalls the Debug build for flavor Chocolate uninstallChocolateDebugTest - Uninstalls the Test build for the ChocolateDebug build uninstallChocolateMezzanine - Uninstalls the Mezzanine build for flavor Chocolate uninstallChocolateRelease - Uninstalls the Release build for flavor Chocolate uninstallVanillaDebug - Uninstalls the Debug build for flavor Vanilla uninstallVanillaDebugTest - Uninstalls the Test build for the VanillaDebug build uninstallVanillaMezzanine - Uninstalls the Mezzanine build for flavor Vanilla uninstallVanillaRelease - Uninstalls the Release build for flavor Vanilla 

Answer 2

I would simplify the answer given by @CommonsWare because going through the answer i was litte confused.

Consider these are the product flavours

• Dev
• Preprod
• Prod

Run

gradlew task

This will list out all Product flavours along with there build types

assemble - Assembles all variants of all applications and secondary packages. assembleAndroidTest - Assembles all the Test applications. assembleDebug - Assembles all Debug builds. assembleDEV - Assembles all DEV builds. assemblePREPROD - Assembles all PREPROD builds. assemblePROD - Assembles all PROD builds. assembleRelease - Assembles all Release builds. 

From this you can easily choose the flavours and will generate a build based on that

gradlew assemblePREPROD