How to Get Current Buildtype in Android Gradle Configuration

How to get Current Build Type in Gradle

You can get the exact build type by parsing your applicationVariants:

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
    buildType = variant.buildType.name // sets the current build type
}

A implementation could look like the following:

def buildType // Your variable

android {
    applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        buildType = variant.buildType.name // Sets the current build type
    }
}

task myTask{
    // Compare buildType here
}

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This answer by this question helped the questioner to settle the problem.

How to get current buildType in Android Gradle configuration

I could not find a clean way to get the current build type during the configuration phase of Gradle. Instead I define the dependency for each build type separately like that:

debugCompile project(path: ':lib1', configuration: 'debug')
releaseCompile project(path: ':lib1', configuration: 'release')

If you have many build types and many project dependencies this can get very verbose, but it is possible to add a function to make the dependency a one-liner. You need to add this to your main Gradle build file:

subprojects {
    android {
        dependencies.metaClass.allCompile { dependency ->
            buildTypes.each { buildType ->
                "${buildType.name}Compile" project(path: ":${dependency.name}", configuration: buildType.name)
            }
        }
    }
}

Then you can add project dependencies in your Gradle modules like this:

allCompile project(':lib1')

If you also use build flavors you would have to adapt the solution. See this link for a documentation of the feature:
http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-guide#TOC-Library-Publication

Please note that the Android team is working on an improvement for this behaviour:
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=52962

How to get the buildtype in a build.gradle EARLY ON

I finally found a way (though its not a very clean one) to look through the array of gradle tasks:

def buildType = gradle.startParameter.taskNames.any{it.toLowerCase().contains("debug")}?"debug":"release"

How to check current build variant in Gradle?

You can call variant.name, or "${variant.name}" to treat as string(text).

You can also do this programmatically by calling BuildConfig.BUILD_TYPE (this is a generated constant that has the value "debug" in case of a debug build)

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