proguard gradle debug build but not the tests

Question

I enabled proguard for the debug build using:

android {
    buildTypes {
        debug {
            runProguard true
            proguardFile \'proguard-deb         


        

Answer 1

Introduce a new build type "derived" from debug specific to the test app that disables ProGuard again like

android {
    buildTypes {
        debugTest.initWith(debug)
        debugTest {
            minifyEnabled false
        }
    }
}

and use that build type for the test app by assigning its name to the testBuildType property

android {
    testBuildType 'debugTest'
}