Exclude specific build variants

Question

I have the two default build types: debug / release and a couple of flavors: prod / dev.

Now I want to exclude the build variant dev-release, but keep all other poss

Answer 1

Using variant filters like others I found it was easiest to do this by comparing the variant name against a list of variants that I want to keep.

So in my app/build.gradle file I have something like:

android {
    variantFilter { variant ->
        def needed = variant.name in [
                'stagingQuickDebug',       // for development
                'stagingFullDebug',        // for debugging all configurations
                'stagingFullCandidate',    // for local builds before beta release
                'stagingFullRelease',      // for beta releases
                'productionFullCandidate', // for local builds before going public
                'productionFullRelease'    // for public releases
        ]
        variant.setIgnore(!needed)
    }
    buildTypes {
        debug {
        }
        release {
        }
        candidate.initWith(release)
    }
    flavorDimensions "server", "build"
    productFlavors {
        staging {
            dimension "server"
            buildConfigField "String", "API_URL", '"https://example-preprod.com/"'
        }
        production {
            dimension "server"
            buildConfigField "String", "API_URL", '"https://example.com/"'
        }
        quick {
            dimension "build"
            minSdkVersion 21
            resConfigs("en", "xxhdpi")
        }
        full {
            dimension "build"
        }
    }
}