Is it possible to declare a variable in Gradle usable in Java?

Question

Is it possible to declare a variable in Gradle usable in Java ? Basically I would like to declare some vars in the build.gradle and then getting it (obviously) at build time

Answer 1

I'm using this code and working very fine.

def baseUrl = '\"http://patelwala.com/myapi/"'
def googleServerKey = '\"87171841097-opu71rk2ps35ibv96ud57g3ktto6ioio.apps.googleusercontent.com"'
android {
  buildTypes {
  release {
        minifyEnabled true
        proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', baseUrl
        buildConfigField 'String', 'web_client_id', googleServerKey
    }
    releasedebug {
        initWith debug
        buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', baseUrl
        buildConfigField 'String', 'web_client_id' ,googleServerKey
    }
    debug {

        buildConfigField 'String', 'BASE_URL', baseUrl
        buildConfigField 'String', 'web_client_id', googleServerKey
    }
 }
}

}