Android flavors with different base themes

Question

I\'ve an android project with multiple flavors that I\'m working on.

This works fine and I can customize elements of the app such as colors and string resources.

Answer 1

You can define sourceSets for common resources (also sources) for one or more flavors which means you don't have to repeat all resources for all flavors.

For instance, you have 3 flavors. flavor1 and flavor2 uses same theme but flavor3. Then you can define extra source set for common resources, such as commonA (for flavor1, flavor2) and commonB(for flavor3):

...
android {
    ...
    productFlavors {
        flavor1{

        }
        flavor2{

        }
        flavor3{

        }
    }

    sourceSets.flavor1{
        res.srcDirs = ['res', 'src/commonA/res']
    }
    sourceSets.flavor2{
        res.srcDirs = ['res', 'src/commonA/res']
    }
    sourceSets.flavor3{
        res.srcDirs = ['res', 'src/commonB/res']
    }
}

Also you should create the folders src/commanA and src/commonB then put your common resources into their res folders.