问题
I'm searching for differences between modules and flavor.
I've read those posts:
- Android difference between module vs flavor
- When to use android flavours vs separate projects
But it's still a bit blur about the differences and how to choose between one and another.
So far the only differences, I manage to get out of it is:
- Different structure
Modules can do everything that a Flavor does.
My first question is, what's the difference and what's so good about flavor that you don't use modules ?
Also, is flavor adapted for 2 applications where Application-1 and Application-2 share same code base (i.e. API, models, utils, service), but deviate from each other in terms of features and UI?
回答1:
When to use modules:
When your project can be separated into smaller independent parts.
I've don'e this to my project, and my compile time went from 50+ seconds per iteration to less than 10 per iteration.
Because when I change code in 1 module, the others dont change and that's why the compile time is faster.
When to use flavours:
- When you want to publish apps to different stores, and they need to have different applicationId
for example you want to publish to google play, and amazon store, and some other store that no one has heard of.
When you want to have part of your app available under certain build time conditions
When you want to whitelabel your app - basically it has the same logic but different UI, so in practice it is a completely different app, only... it's not.
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60385546/android-modules-vs-flavor