resConfigs per build type

Question

How can I override the resConfigs per build types? I read that flavors would allow that, but I don't use them. I just want for my debug build another set of supported languges.

Here is what I tried:

buildTypes {
    debug {
        resConfigs "de", "en" // allow also german in debug builds
    }
    release {
        signingConfig signingConfigs.release
        resConfigs "en"       // english only releases
    }
}

Any simple idea how I can achieve that?

Answer 1

For some reason the individual buildType configs doesn't support the resConfigs command as you point out, but defaultConfig does and then you can use this trick to manipulate it per build type even without flavors configured:

android {
    defaultConfig {
        resConfigs "en"
    }
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        if (variant.buildType.name.equals("debug")) {
            variant.mergedFlavor.resourceConfigurations.add("de")
        }
    }
}