Android - build separate APKs for different processor architectures

Question

Is there an easy way to build separate APK files for Android for different processor architectures, with the old ANT or the new Gradle build process? My way of doing this is

Answer 1

In this article Android NDK: Version code scheme for publishing APKs per architecture I have found a nice solution to this problem. It consists in adding the following code

 splits {
    abi {
        enable true
        reset()
        include 'x86', 'armeabi', 'armeabi-v7a'
        universalApk true
    }
}

project.ext.versionCodes = ['armeabi': 1, 'armeabi-v7a': 2, 'arm64-v8a': 3, 'mips': 5, 'mips64': 6, 'x86': 8, 'x86_64': 9]

android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    variant.outputs.each { output ->
        output.versionCodeOverride =
            project.ext.versionCodes.get(output.getFilter(
                com.android.build.OutputFile.ABI), 0) * 10000000 + android.defaultConfig.versionCode
    }
}

to the android{...} section of the build.gradle script. If you want to understand the details, I highly recommend to read that article, it is really worth reading.