Build Variants - These are created implicitly by gradle and is a combination of build types and flavor.

We can define configuration specific to flavor here such as flavor specific manifest placeholders, build config fields etc

Product Flavors - They’re defined under the productFlavor block, eg dev, prod etc.

We can configurations specific to build types here such as signingConfigs, proguard file etc.

Build Types - We can define build types under the buildType block, eg.

You can find their usage in the demo project below.

Gradle allows the following configurations for Android. app/adle - This is exclusive to the app where you will find implementations for local/remote repositories, the android configurations such as minSdk, compileSdk etc.Any configuration options added here will be common to all modules. The buildscript is defined here along with the repositories. adle - This is the root project’s adle file.

Any sort of configuration which might be required prior to initialization can be done here. adle - All the required modules for the project is defined here.Whenever a project is built, the gradle files are executed in the following sequence:

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