Exclude assets for release build type

Question

I\'m importing an android library in an application built with gradle, like that:

dependencies {
    compile \'com.e         


        

Answer 1

I ended up doing the following:

android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->

  if (variant.name.contains('Release')) {
    // exclude source and sourcemap from release builds
    def noJsSourceTask = task("delete${variant.name}JsSource", type: Delete) {
      delete "${buildDir}/intermediates/assets/${variant.dirName}/js"
      delete "${buildDir}/intermediates/assets/${variant.dirName}/great.min.js.map"
    }
    variant.mergeAssets.finalizedBy noCeJsSourceTask
  }
}

It works ok, but there are a few things I don't really like:

• I'm touching at the files produced by a task after it is done (the finalizedBy), so it doesn't work well with "up-to-date" checking. But it's only for release builds, I'm doing debug ones more often
• the path of the files to delete is manually built. I'm not sure if it's generic enough to be reused in other projects as-is
• I'm selecting the variants based on their name. I would have liked something more structured.