Having different dependencies in grade builds?

Question

I have a debug build and a release build of an android application however I need different dependencies for each, is this possible in Android Studio?

I have the section:

buildTypes {
        debug {
            minifyEnabled false
        }
        release {
            minifyEnabled true
        }
}

and a section for the dependencies:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    compile 'joda-time:joda-time:2.7'
    compile 'org.joda:joda-convert:1.4'
}

I want to remove the joda-convert dependancy if I am using the debug build as it results in "duplicate files in packaging of APK" error.

Any help greatly appreciated?

Answer 1

From the Android gradle documentation:

The compile configuration is used to compile the main application. Everything in it is added to the compilation classpath and also packaged in the final APK. There are other possible configurations to add dependencies to:

• compile: main application
• androidTestCompile: test application
• debugCompile: debug Build Type
• releaseCompile: release Build Type.

Answer 2

you can use

releaseCompile 'org.joda:joda-convert:1.4'

then joda-convert is only used for release