Product Flavor returned as empty always

Question

In my gradle(app) file, I am setting the Product flavor and build type as shown below

productFlavors {

    mock {

    }

    develop {

    }

    qa {


    }
    staging {

    }
    prod {

    }
}

buildTypes {

    debug {
        //signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }
    release {
        minifyEnabled false
        //signingConfig signingConfigs.release
    }

In Android studio build variants, I get the following options based on the above:

• developDebug
• developRelease
• mockDebug
• mockRelease
• prodDebug
• proddRelease
• qaDebug
• qaRelease
• stagingDebug
• stagingRelease

I have put a code in my app to print the current running Build variant as below. But the below code always print empty. Why is this so? How can I get the exact build variant inside my app? Any help is much appreciated.

System.out.println("Current build variant is"+BuildConfig.FLAVOR);

Answer 1

You probably imported the wrong BuildConfig. Check your imports and see if it is:

import <your_package_name>.BuildConfig;

and NOT something like:

import android.support.v4.BuildConfig;