Include Stetho only in the debug build variant

Question

I know that I can use debugCompile to only pull in a dependency for the debug build. Is there a good, streamlined way to do the code initialization that is required as well? Without the dependencies the other variants will fail to compile.

Answer 1

Check the @Tanis answer.

Also you can use something like this:

Add the library only on debug version.

dependencies {    debugCompile 'com.facebook.stetho:stetho:1.1.1        } 

In your Application you can do :

public class ExampleApplication extends Application {    @Override public void onCreate() {     super.onCreate();     StethoUtils.install(this);   } } 

Then you can create different StethoUtils class in the debug/release version.

In src/debug/java/

public class StethoUtils{     public static void install(Application application){        Stetho.initialize(           Stetho.newInitializerBuilder(application)             .enableDumpapp(Stetho.defaultDumperPluginsProvider(application))             .enableWebKitInspector(Stetho.defaultInspectorModulesProvider(application))             .build());     } } 

In src/release/java/

public class StethoUtils{     public static void install(Application application){       // do nothing    } }