Android using Gradle Build flavors in the code like an if case

Question

I\'m trying to work with build flavors. In my build.gradle I\'ve defined 2 flavors, a normal flavor and an admin flavor.

Basicly, the admin flavor has an extra button

Answer 1

To avoid plain string in the condition, you can define a boolean property:

productFlavors {
    normal {
        flavorDimension "access"
        buildConfigField 'boolean', 'IS_ADMIN', 'false'
    }

    admin {
        flavorDimension "access"
        buildConfigField 'boolean', 'IS_ADMIN', 'true'
    }
}

Then you can use it like this:

if (BuildConfig.IS_ADMIN) {
    ...
}