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

Answer 1

Using java reflection may be a perferct idea:

private void initStetho() {
            if (BuildConfig.DEBUG) {
                try {
                   Class stethoClazz = Class.forName("com.facebook.stetho.Stetho");
                    Method method = stethoClazz.getMethod("initializeWithDefaults",Context.class);
                    method.invoke(null, this);
                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (InvocationTargetException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
        }

then we can debug compile stetho:

debugCompile 'com.facebook.stetho:stetho:1.5.0'