Android Studio: Exclude Resource File Under Resources Sourcesets

Android Studio: Exclude resource file under resources sourceSets

Exclude paths aren't currently supported for Android sourceSets. You can track this at bug https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=64957

This is happening because Android sourceSets aren't the same as Java sourceSets; they're a custom implementation in the Android plugin, and don't automatically pick up all the features of their cousins. This will need to be specially implemented for Android, and it hasn't been done yet.

How to exclude file from resources using Gradle and Android Studio?

For the sanity of other folks working on your project, I strongly discourage putting templates (input) and auto-generated files (output) in the same directory. You could create your own, independent 'templates' directory to keep it from being included in your build.

Gradle 1.2: Exclude directory under resources sourceSets

Using Gradle 1.1, this works for me:

apply plugin: 'war'

sourceSets {
    main {
        resources {
            exclude '**/test/*'
            exclude 'certs/test'
        }
    }
}

Gradle remove resource files from build

According to the answer to this question, it is not possible to remove Android resources from build, but only JAVA resources.

I am now storing the template files in a separate folder, outside the project and using Mako and an additional python script to move them to the drawable folder in the project generation step.

How to exclude resources from the JAR in Gradle and also run via IntelliJ

Excluding Resources from the JAR with Gradle

Example build.gradle

plugins {
    id 'java'
    id 'application'
}

// Project specifics
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
group 'com.example'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8
project.mainClassName = "core.ExampleApp"

dependencies {
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

// Define the project source paths
sourceSets {
    main.java {
        srcDir 'core/src'
    }
    test.java {
        srcDir 'core/test'
    }
}

// Exclude all resources from the jar
jar {
    processResources.exclude('*')
}

// Allows the 'test' task to see the directories on the classpath
test {
    classpath += files('conf')
    classpath += files('res')
}

// Allows the 'run' task to see the directories on the classpath
run {
    classpath += files('conf')
    classpath += files('res')
}

// Adds the directories to classpath in the start scripts
// They will have '$APP_DIR/lib/' prepended so they need to be copied into 'dist/lib/'
startScripts {
    run {
        classpath += files('conf')
        classpath += files('res')
    }
}

// Copy 'conf' and 'res' into the 'dist/lib' directory
distributions {
    main {
        contents {
            from('conf').into("lib/conf")
            from('res').into("lib/res")
        }
    }
}

• Resources are found during gradle run
• Resources are found during gradle test
• Built JAR does not contain the resources
• Resources copied into example.zip/lib/conf & .../lib/res
• Resource content are added to the classpath in the generated build scripts
• Running tests via IntelliJ UI does work (right click -> run tests e.g.)

BUT:

• Running via IntelliJ UI does not work (right click -> run main() e.g.)

Resolution:

• The IntelliJ Gradle Plugin allows right click -> run and right click -> debug
• The above adds a configuration to IntelliJ run panel as a decent substitute

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